Nick Begich Criticized The Anchorage Local Government For Taking Out Bonds To Pay For School Busses Because It Raised Property Taxes

Begich Criticized The Anchorage Local Government For Taking Out Bonds To Pay For School Busses Because It Raised Property Taxes. “In Anchorage, you know, one of the things that concerns me and concerns a lot of the people that I speak with is the manner in which we bond things. Bonds are a major driver of our property taxes in this town. When I see things like IP cameras, when I see things like school buses, these are things that on the grand scale are relatively moderate to minor expenditures. Do we really need to bond these? Aren’t these foreseeable -shouldn’t they be fit within the scope of the existing budget? So once you start fitting those maintenance things that we should be putting in the budget- according to several people- something else has got to go.” [KTVA Newa, 3/25/16]