The Nebraska legislature is dealing with filling a potential nine hundred million dollar gap in the next two year budget. They also have to figure out how to cut about one hundred thirty million dollars from the current budget.
Hartington-Newcastle School Superintendent A.J. Johnson says small schools are watching the legislature carefully….

Johnson says even indirect budget cuts could trickle down to the local level…..

Governor Pete Ricketts is proposing a plan that would change Ag property taxes from sales based to a productivity model. Johnson says they don’t think that will make much of a difference….

Johnson says Hartington-Newcastle’s tax levy is currently at forty two cents per hundred.