1 action today: take some time this weekend to read up on the 2022 Bronson (but really Demboski) proposed budget. There are many bad choices for our city, but there's still time to fix it. #ANCgov
Read the details: anchorageaction.com
Testimony form: moaonlineforms.formstack.com/forms/assembly…
Read the details: anchorageaction.com
Testimony form: moaonlineforms.formstack.com/forms/assembly…
Budget 🚩🚩🚩: long 🧵
❌ Hides a flat-funded budget with complicated reorganization
❌Achieves “cuts” by using dedicated alcohol tax money for general government
❌Creates a top-heavy executive team, with 4 new positions
❌Cuts $1 mil for new ASD pre-K, funded by alcohol tax /🧵
❌ Hides a flat-funded budget with complicated reorganization
❌Achieves “cuts” by using dedicated alcohol tax money for general government
❌Creates a top-heavy executive team, with 4 new positions
❌Cuts $1 mil for new ASD pre-K, funded by alcohol tax /🧵
❌Cuts Mobile Crisis Team & abandons mental health first responders model, funded by alcohol tax
❌Cuts Fire & Police, after promising to hold public safety harmless - $800K cut to AFD overtime & Community Risk Reduction program
❌Cuts $250K for providers serving DV victims /🧵
❌Cuts Fire & Police, after promising to hold public safety harmless - $800K cut to AFD overtime & Community Risk Reduction program
❌Cuts $250K for providers serving DV victims /🧵
❌Cuts $250K in prevention grants for family services
❌Cuts $250K to AEDC, after saying "economic development and job growth is #1 priority"
❌Cuts $157K for street light repair funding
❌Cuts community grants for organizations like Covenant House /🧵
❌Cuts $250K to AEDC, after saying "economic development and job growth is #1 priority"
❌Cuts $157K for street light repair funding
❌Cuts community grants for organizations like Covenant House /🧵
❌Cuts Family Service Aides and Peer Navigators for people in need
❌Cuts 2 municipal attorney positions, which would impact the Muni's response to lawsuits and other legal issues
❌Cuts funding to community compost pilot program /🧵
❌Cuts 2 municipal attorney positions, which would impact the Muni's response to lawsuits and other legal issues
❌Cuts funding to community compost pilot program /🧵
❌Cuts building inspectors, opposite of "speeding up e permitting process"
❌Effectively cuts the SRO program by shifting costs to Anchorage School District
❌Reorganizes the Library under Parks Department. Library Director not subject to Assembly confirmation /🧵
❌Effectively cuts the SRO program by shifting costs to Anchorage School District
❌Reorganizes the Library under Parks Department. Library Director not subject to Assembly confirmation /🧵
❌Chooses a small capital budget, even though capital projects invest in Anchorage & would create jobs in 2022
❌Cuts over $1.5 mil in park projects, planned last year for the 2022 bond.
⁉️What else did you find in this budget that needs calling out? /🧵 #ANCgov
❌Cuts over $1.5 mil in park projects, planned last year for the 2022 bond.
⁉️What else did you find in this budget that needs calling out? /🧵 #ANCgov
🚩🚩🚩These cuts are bad for Anchorage & only benefit people whose politics of "right-sizing & efficiency" just keep government from doing its job. If we want to live in a thriving city, let's commit to funding services we need. #ANCgov
Send testimony:
moaonlineforms.formstack.com/forms/assembly…
Send testimony:
moaonlineforms.formstack.com/forms/assembly…
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