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89th ANNUAL MEETING  

MONTANA TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION  

DECEMBER 9, 2010  

Red Lion Colonial Hotel – 2301 Colonial Drive, Helena MT 11:30 – Registration  

12:00 NOON – Lunch  

Welcome-Rick Hays, Chair, Board of Directors  

The Elections are Over – Now What?  

Carlos E. Bonilla, Managing Partner and Chief Economist, Airline Forecasts  

1:15 – 2:00 - Underfunded Pension Plans:  It’s Worse Than You Think  

                        Senator Dave Lewis, Moderator  

                        Josh Barro, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research  

2:00 – 3:00 – How’s the Weather in Montana?  

                        Tom Ebzery - Moderator  

Patrick Barkey, Director of Bureau of Business and Economic Research  

Terry Johnson, Principal Fiscal Analyst, Legislative Fiscal Division  

                        Myles Watts, Professor at Department of Agriculture Economics and Economics  

3:00 – 3:15 – Break  

3:15 – 4:00 – Clarity and Consistency in State Budget Reporting  

Dr. Richard Dye, Institute of Government and Public Affairs-University of Illinois  

4:00– 5:30 – Legislative Leadership Panel  

Moderator:  Hon. Karla Gray, Former Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court  

                        Senator Jim Peterson – President of the Senate  

                        Senator Kim Gillan, Minority Whip of the Senate  

                        Representative Mike Milburn – Speaker of the House (invited)  

                        Representative Jon Sesso – Minority Leader of the House (invited)  

5:30                 Reception