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Partnership releases legislative agenda

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The Greater Des Moines Partnership unveiled its 2011 state legislative agenda on Wednesday, focusing on a number of areas, including government, tax credits, education and green redevelopment.

Items on the new agenda are:

-Supporting fiscal responsibility initiatives and the reinvention of state and local government.

-Supporting the preservation of critical economic development incentives and tax credits to create and retain quality jobs.

-Finding solutions to improve the education system to support the work force.

-Developing a simplified property tax system that is more equitable and provides relief to commercial and industrial taxpayers.

-Raising the cap on the brownfields and grayfields redevelopment tax credit program to encourage green redevelopment, and to revitalize economically obsolescent and energy-inefficient structures in commercial areas.

Iowa Senate President Jack Kibbie, Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley, Speaker of the House-elect Kraig Paulsen and House Minority Leader-elect Kevin McCarthy were in attendance for the unveiling.