Listen: North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong on “The Steve Hallstrom Show”.
NORTH DAKOTA – North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong is happy projects on energy, property taxes and banning cell phones during classes at public schools were tackled during his first year in office.
WBI Energy has agreed to an up to $500 million financial guarantee to build a natural gas pipeline from western North Dakota to the eastern part of the state. Armstrong said on The Flag this will create needed infrastructure statewide.
“To do that is going to allow for a tremendous amount of economic development and access to affordable and reliable power,” Armstrong said on “The Steve Hallstrom Show”.
This year the legislature passed Armstrong’s bill that requires cities, counties, school boards and park boards to cap future increases in local property tax budgets by three percent over the previous year. Armstrong said 30 percent of households will pay nothing in property taxes for 2025 for primary residences.
“We should be able to get everybody’s primary residential property taxes to zero sometime in the next 15 to 20 years and the vast majority of them quicker than that,” Armstrong explained.
Armstrong said a Fargo North High School teacher thanked him this week for proposing a bill that passed the legislature banning cell phones in public Kindergarten through 12th grade schools from opening to closing bells.
“We’re hearing it from everyone across the state. It’s something we knew anecdotally and the data supported it,” Armstrong said.
