
Amy Williams
47:26 - 48:02
"by adding those now, that's in the MAPTR limit, and it helps us fully fund MAPTR and takes it out of the need to do a budget amendment."
“by adding those now, that's in the MAPTR limit, and it helps us fully fund MAPTR and takes it out of the need to do a budget amendment.”
Dora's here to guide me through this. Okay, so you have two options in front of you. One has a total mill rate of $8.59. It doesn't have the writing on the bottom that says with salaries included, but both of these do have salaries included, and what that means is In previous versions of the budget, I didn't have the union negotiated salaries in there because the union didn't know what my cap was, but now they do. And by adding those now, that's in the MAPTR limit, and it helps us fully fund MAPTR and takes it out of the need to do a budget amendment.
The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly voted Friday to advance its FY2027 budget to public hearing after deciding to allocate 75% of facilities fund interest to debt service rather than lowering the property tax mill rate, keeping it at 8.91 mills.
