Kasey Kinsman
54:57 - 55:45
"keeping the mill rate exactly where it's at accounts for increased value on properties, accounts for just even sentiment in the community of just matching and that for not. Not raising the mill rate. It's staying the same. It's different than the budgeted mill rate adjusted, but the mill rate is staying the same."
“keeping the mill rate exactly where it's at accounts for increased value on properties, accounts for just even sentiment in the community of just matching and that for not. Not raising the mill rate. It's staying the same. It's different than the budgeted mill rate adjusted, but the mill rate is staying the same.”
- Speaker
- Kasey Kinsman
- Timestamp
- 54:57 – 55:45
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Cordova
- Captured at
- June 3, 2026
From the transcript
Yeah, I think as I look at where, where we're going, keeping the mill rate exactly where it's at accounts for increased value on properties, accounts for just even sentiment in the community of just matching and that for not. Not raising the mill rate. It's staying the same. It's different than the budgeted mill rate adjusted, but the mill rate is staying the same. There's some increase nominal and I would even argue in, in, in comparison to where everything is at in the economy.
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