Speaker B
12:14 - 12:48
"This year we've added an additional expense of the area-wide mill rate for operations. Uh, we are allowed to do this by charter section 1405. You'll see the 1.71 mills is included in that, and area-wide is For everyone, Service Area 1, area-wide is included, so that increased the $5 mils to $6.64 mils. That's an increase of $164 per $100,000 of assessed value."
“This year we've added an additional expense of the area-wide mill rate for operations. Uh, we are allowed to do this by charter section 1405. You'll see the 1.71 mills is included in that, and area-wide is For everyone, Service Area 1, area-wide is included, so that increased the $5 mils to $6.64 mils. That's an increase of $164 per $100,000 of assessed value.”
- Speaker
- Speaker B
- Timestamp
- 12:14 – 12:48
- Source
- Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- April 30, 2026
From the transcript
This year we've added an additional expense of the area-wide mill rate for operations. Uh, we are allowed to do this by charter section 1405. You'll see the 1.71 mills is included in that, and area-wide is For everyone, Service Area 1, area-wide is included, so that increased the $5 mils to $6.64 mils. That's an increase of $164 per $100,000 of assessed value.
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