Fireworks at the
Assembly meeting
If you have a stake in your city and care about property taxes you may want to hustle down to the Loussac Library this evening.
Sparks likely will be flying as the liberal Assembly majority decides how it will respond to the mayor’s veto yesterday of its resolution directing revenue-sharing be used for property tax relief while allowing the tax cap to increase.
That resolution, passed last Tuesday in a 6-5 vote, would have caused a $4.2 million budget deficit next year and an $11 million deficit in 2011, Mayor Dan Sullivan said.
We applaud Sullivan for standing up for taxpayers and if the Assembly decides to fight him on this resolution or, as rumored, pass a proposed ordinance demanding what the resolution failed to achieve, he should be quick and unabashed in the use of his veto powers.
If tax payers care about property tax rates and want to support the mayor’s decision to keep taxes and spending in check, then they should be at the Assembly meeting tonight.
And we offer this only as advice for the majority: Dan Sullivan was elected mayor. You were not.
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