It looks like we’re guaranteed a visit from conservative initiative promoter Tim Eyman at the Northwest Business Club again this year, as he has filed another ballot measure.

From the SecState’s office:

The opening week for filing initiatives to the people this year started on a busy note, as two measures were filed with the Secretary of State on January 5, the first day of “initiative season.”

This morning, Tim Eyman of Mukilteo filed a measure that would limit the growth of all revenues that go into the general fund of the state, each county and each city, not including voter-approved taxes. He’s calling it the Lower Property Taxes Initiative. Another property-tax initiative, offered by Chelan resident Courtney Cox, was filed later today.

You can read the full text of all 2009 initiatives, right here. They actually don’t appear to be up there, yet, though. *UPDATE* - Just as a note, the text still isn’t online, but that’s where it’ll end up being when they finally put it up.

The required number of signatures for a citizen initiative to the ballot this year is 241,153, which, under state law, is the required 8 percent of the total number of votes cast in the November 2008 gubernatorial race, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

Signature petitions must be turned in by July 3.

From the Spokesman-Review’s Richard Roesler, who was at Eyman’s press conference:

“Government isn’t getting smaller,” he said. “Even with the initiatives that we’ve passed, government has never gotten smaller. All that we’ve really managed to do is slow down the rate of growth of government.”

The formula in Eyman’s measure, however, doesn’t seem to take into account population growth or other changes, like tough-on-crime laws keeping more people to prison at nearly $30k a year each.

Read Roesler’s full post, right here.