Stephanie Nowers
187:09 - 188:24
“if you don't do anything, if you don't adjust the mill rate, uh, somebody in Sutton, the far-flung areas that are playing paying 16— Sutton, up the, up the Susitna area, who are paying 16 mills, they're going to see like an over $1,000 break on their taxes. But if you adjust the mill rate for the FSA and RSA to bring the revenues— what the manager is talking about— if you adjust the mill rates for the, the FSA and the RSA, they're still going to get the break on their area-wide taxes.”
- Speaker
- Stephanie Nowers
- Timestamp
- 187:09 – 188:24
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Mat-Su Borough
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From the transcript
So it's a way to get folks who come here and use our services to help pay the cost. Now, as far as the, the districts, the FSAs and the, the RSAs, that is, um, you know, it's a legit thing that would happen. So if you don't do anything, if you don't adjust the mill rate, uh, somebody in Sutton, the far-flung areas that are playing paying 16— Sutton, up the, up the Susitna area, who are paying 16 mills, they're going to see like an over $1,000 break on their taxes. But if you adjust the mill rate for the FSA and RSA to bring the revenues— what the manager is talking about— if you adjust the mill rates for the, the FSA and the RSA, they're still going to get the break on their area-wide taxes. So it's going to be about a $700— for an average person, it's going to be about $700 a year break for people who live here, versus if we just lower the mill rate, we are capturing people who live here, but we're also doing Walmart and Fred Meyer and Enstar, and those entities are not going to pass that break on to us.
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