By Rusty Nixon Correspondent
PLYMOUTH — Legislators from the area want to hear what residents have to say and answer some questions about new legislation at an upcoming Legislative Update sponsored by the Legislative Committee of the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce and the Marshall County Commissioners.
“We want to share with people the details of recent legislation so people have a general working knowledge of what took place,” said State Rep. Nancy Dembowski. “Of course we want to answer any questions that people might have, and explain anything that we can.”

The session is scheduled for Saturday, March 29 at 10 a.m. at the Marshall County Building, 112 W. Jefferson St., in The Commissioners Meet-ing Room 203.
Invited guests are Senators Ed Charbonneau and Ryan Mishler and Representatives Nancy Dembowski and Bill Friend.  Everyone is welcome to attend.
“The mood coming into the session was that the voters were demanding some kind of tax relief,” said Dembowski. “It was up to us to get it done, but I felt we had to be careful about how it was going to affect middle and lower-income taxpayers.  I think there is some good legislation here for immediate relief. There’s going to have to be some tweaking. We are going to have to monitor things closely especially on the effect on schools.”
Dembowski says that the session was productive in other ways.
“In the past I think we thought about what we had to pay for instead of what the taxpayers could afford,” she said. “It’s not ideal but it ended up a compromise. Nobody got everything they wanted. A compromise always seems to benefit more people in the end.”
The meeting is designed to shed light on the new tax law, which is a daunting task for anyone.
“The bill is 600 pages long,” said Dembowski. “We want to answer as many questions as we can about what it will accomplish and some of the problems that come with it.”