Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has issued vetoes that eliminate multiple changes made to the city budget last week by the Assembly during its annual budget revision process.
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson read a statement statement during the Anchorage Assembly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in response to the assembly meeting the previous night. that eliminate multiple changes made to the city budget last week by the Anchorage Assembly during its annual budget revision process.
Bronson’s vetoes cut funding from several programs and departments — additions and changes to the city budget that the Assembly had voted unanimously to include last Tuesday. The mayor’s cuts include slashing nine months of funding for school resource officers in the Anchorage School District, cutting some funding for the city’s new mobile crisis team, eliminating some building inspector positions, and changing the funding source for some Health Department positions back to money from the alcohol tax, among other vetoes.that Bronson’s vetoes will keep the budget $4.7 million below the municipality’s tax cap and save taxpayers $3.4 million.
The mayor and Assembly have been volleying vetoes and veto overrides back and forth since Bronson took office last year. The Assembly needs a supermajority of eight votes to override Bronson’s vetoes.[
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