BEATRICE – Saying Nebraskans are sick of the conversation, Governor Jim Pillen said it’s time for the State of Nebraska to fix its tax system to relieve the burden of property taxes.

Pillen held another of his townhall meetings Friday at the Beatrice Public Library, to get input from residents about tax and spending issues. Pillen said he plans to call a special session late this summer to pass a comprehensive tax reform package-something that failed to happen in this year’s regular legislative session when the clock ran out and a plan under consideration lacked support.

"It's going to be really hard to get done before the Fourth of July and I've made commitments to sell Nebraska around the world, so it's going to be after the middle of July to before school...that's going to be the goal."

Pillen said the benefit of a special session will be the ability to focus on one issue. He told an audience at the Beatrice Public Library that the effort to reduce property taxes will take spending restraint, removing sales tax exemptions and instituting a hard cap on local governments to help hold future spending down.

Pillen told the Beatrice audience Friday that another component of tax reform is eliminating mandates passed on to local governments that put pressure on their budgets.