
Mayor · Matanuska-Susitna Borough
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Edna DeVries is the Mayor of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Alaska, elected to the office in November 2021 after previously serving on the Palmer City Council. She also served as Mayor of the City of Palmer, Alaska, before her election as borough mayor.
“However, we have concerns with proposal to redistribute tax revenues away from the jurisdictions directed impacted by the project infrastructure.”
“The Borough Assembly has adopted a resolution that supports a volume tax, protects education funding— that's very important to us— by exempting the increased property values from new project infrastructure, ensures effective municipalities receive the associated tax revenue”