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[SAVE THE DATE ... SUNDAY OCT 10TH, CLOVER PARK TECH COLL. (just west of Tacoma)Same location as prior years, our annual membership meeting is your opportunity to hear what WOHVA has been up to and give your input directly to the Board.Topics include Tod's top picks for the upcoming elections, an update on our NOVA Lawsuit appeal, a preview of our new MAP CATALOG ... and more.see you there!For info and membership: http://www.wohva.org]

SAVE THE DATE ... SUNDAY OCT 10TH, CLOVER PARK TECH COLL. (just west of Tacoma)

Same location as prior years, our annual membership meeting is your opportunity to hear what WOHVA has been up to and give your input directly to the Board.

Topics include Tod's top picks for the upcoming elections, an update on our NOVA Lawsuit appeal, a preview of our new MAP CATALOG ... and more.

see you there!

For info and membership: http://www.wohva.org

This bike has a fresh rebuilt motor. Runs great.


$1800

I have pics I can email to anyone interested.

Please email me at bruce@puroperformance.com

The MotoZ have been a good tire so far however I would like to try a Trials tire next time but I have 19" wheels. Anyone know which ones are made in 19"?

Clay and his group are responsible ORV users and do a lot of good things for our sport. Thanks for signing in and checking out the NMA Clay.




Neil Stamp

[ORV friendly Legislators]

ORV friendly Legislators

Dan Kristensen
Cary Condotta
Bill Hinkle
Kirk Pearson
Mike Sells
Jim McCune
Shelly Short
Ed Orcutt
Norma Smith
Tim Sheldon
Dan Swecker
Val Stevens

Add Vince Buys to the good guy list.

He is running against Kelli Linville in the 42nd district.
She was a key player in the NOVA funds rip off and he has voiced his support for our sport.

The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee is holding their summer hearings.
 
In 2007 they reviewed the NOVA gas tax issue and found that we were not getting our fair share.
Obviously it has only gotten worse since then.
 
If you are so inclined, contact your Legislators and encourage them to advise the JLARC to revisit this issue.
(example email below)
 
This is especially important is any one of these folks represent you:
 
JLARC members
 
Randy Gordon
Gary Alexander
 Janéa Holmquist
Glenn Anderson
Jeanne Kohl-Welles
Kathy Haigh
Eric Oemig
Troy Kelley
Linda Evans Parlette
Dan Kristiansen
Cheryl Pflug
Sharon Nelson
Craig Pridemore
Dan Roach
Joseph Zarelli
Deb Wallace
 
If you don't know who your Senator or two House of Representatives members are, you can find them at www.leg.wa.gov
 
Their direct email addresses are formatted as follows:
 
lastname.firstname@leg.wa.gov
 
 
++++++++++++++

Dear Representative or Senator XXXXX,
 
Has the JLARC considered taking another look at how the non-highway fuel tax monies are refunded?
 
This topic was reviewed in Report 07-15 (page 133) and changes were recommended, but unfortunately the Legislature chose not to revise RCW 46.09.170 as recommended.
 
In fact, the Legislature chose instead to pass 2010 House Bill ESHB 1244. Section 944 of this bill completely redirects the non-highway fuel tax funds to State Parks where they provide no benefit to the offroad vehicle users that paid the fuel taxes.
 
Additionally this bill also redirected all of the offroad vehicle permit monies from distribution via RCW 46.09.110 and RCW 46.09.170. They gave these funds to State Parks too.
 
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this matter.
 
 
Best regards,
 
you
 

The State Attorney General's response to our opening brief is due 23-August-2010

[and the introduction continues:]

and the introduction continues:

In 1944, the People of Washington, responding to widespread concern that the Legislature was diverting gasoline excise tax revenues from the highway fund to non-highway purposes, amended the Constitution of the State of Washington to require that such revenues be spend on “highway purposes”.

Appellants, individuals and entities primarily interested in the promotion and operation of off-road vehicles (ORVs) (see CR64-65; CR80-81), wish to see gasoline excise tax revenues expended in accordance with Constitutional requirements.

The dispute arises primarily through language through which the People defined permissible “highway purposes” in Article II, § 40 to include “refunds as authorized by law for taxes paid on motor vehicle fuel”.

In 2005, Division III of this Court upheld the Legislature’s decision to “refund” a portion of gasoline excise tax revenues collected into a grant program formerly run by Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation (IAC), and now run by the Recreation and Conservation Funding Board (RCFB), called the Non-Highway and Off-Road Vehicle Activities (NOVA) program.

Northwest Motorcycle Ass’n v. State Interagency Comm’n for Outdoor Recreation, 127 Wash. App. 408 (2005), rev. denied, 156 Wash.2d 1008 (2006). In so doing, the Court upheld a program that attempted carefully to target tax revenues collected from nonhighway and off-road users to the NOVA program for expenditure to provide specific benefits to such users.

However, the Northwest Motorcycle Association (NMA) decision apparently emboldened the Legislature to take the further step, challenged here, of seizing funds from the NOVA program account and diverting them for general payroll expenditures not related to the provision of specific benefits to those paying the taxes.

The Superior Court upheld this result based upon its conception of the Legislature’s broad powers with respect to taxation.

Unless this Court acts to limit the scope of the NMA decision, the Legislature may find itself unable to engage in innovative policies such as the NOVA program, for the People of the State of Washington will not suffer motor vehicle excise tax revenues to be diverted for specified and agreeable purposes knowing that the careful Constitutional limitations in Article II, § 40 may be discarded at will.

[INTRODUCTION]

The first words of our opening brief shall be as follows:

INTRODUCTION

This case puts before this Court its most important task: protecting the People of the State of Washington, whose will is enshrined in the Washington State Constitution, from the predations of faithless legislators acting in derogation of that Constitution.

well then i wanna make a ridding trip to Italy haha.