Lori Draper
89:00 - 89:45
“it does deserve some looking at because if I'm not mistaken, what it also allowed us to do is to allow these tax reductions without having to go to a vote of the people because it used to be that the state only allowed you to do $75,000 homeowner exemption.”
- Speaker
- Lori Draper
- Timestamp
- 89:00 – 89:45
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Seward
- Captured at
- October 27, 2026
From the transcript
Lori Draper. So I wanted to revisit the taxes that Casey was talking about with the Homer reductions that I think we did— it does deserve some looking at because if I'm not mistaken, what it also allowed us to do is to allow these tax reductions without having to go to a vote of the people because it used to be that the state only allowed you to do $75,000 homeowner exemption. That's what the borough has and Seward has none. And I thought, wow, what, you know, that would be the way to reward people who live here year-round is use a bigger, a bigger one of those. Well, it sounds like that's possible now instead of a 1% reduction across the board, or $1 mil reduction across the board, to look at maybe targeting a first-time homeowner or a primary resident.
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