RE: municipal budget

[Ken Winterberger & Paula Smith]

I would, and while I can't immediatly speak for the aquatics community, I know that
this might be something that various groups could support. I am passing this email
along to the People for Pools email list. People for Pools is the core of a MUCH
larger network of folks that might be interested in this sort of proposal. Let's
see what sort of response we get from this group. Several members of the Aquatics
Advisory committee are also members of the People for Pools email list. I'm sure we
will discuss this at our 28 November meeting.

Thanks for the quick response.

Ken Winterberger

On Wed, November 14, 2007 10:06 am, Jennifer Johnston wrote:
> Would you be interested in supporting an additional .05% of a mill rate for
> your Parks and Recreation's service district, to develop a capital reserve
> fund for parks and pools? This is a model that Eagle River is currently
> doing in their service district and it provides a consistent capital
> fund without going to the expense of bonding. Thank you.
> Jennifer Johnston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Winterberger & Paula Smith [mailto:kwi...@alaska.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:58 PM
> To: jjoh...@gci.net
> Subject: municipal budget
>
> Hello,
>
> I was at the Assembly meeting last week but didn't speak because of the
> line of folks giving public testimony; I thought that I would give testimony
> tonight. Sadly, I won't be there and so I decided to send you this email.
>
> I have been an Anchorage taxpayer since the 70's. I have always supported
> the
> improvement of quality of life items in the municipal budget whether or
> not I or my family have been involved in a particular municipally funded
> facility
> or activity. The quality of life aspect is very important to me. I believe
> that
> activities and facilities specifically aimed at our youth are excellent
> investments. I have been involved as a member of one of our local youth
> soccer
> club board of directors for several years. I've also been a member of the
> Aquatics
> Advisory Committee for several years. The AAC has put considerable effort
> into
> developing suggestions and plans to improve our aquatics program. For the
> past two
> months, the AAC has asked for more resources to more adequately meet the
> costs of
> annual operation of pools. Progress has been made through the actions of
> this
> committee and the potential of help offered by individual Assembly members.
>
> However, this is no longer just about pools - its about adequate funding for
> Anchorage parks and recreation and many other things. Friday's draft
> resolution
> that proposes to cut $900,000 from the Parks & Recreation budget guts the
> effort of
> the past two months. In fact, the resolution only increases the chance that
> our
> park and recreation services - including pools - will face even more severe
> hardship over the coming years.
>
> I would really appreciate your support of parks and recreation, there are
> more
> positive ways than a $900,000 cut to do that.
>
> Please reconsider and approve the Mayor's budget request for Parks and
> Recreation.
>
> Ken Winterberger
>
>
>
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[Jodi&Sean]

Can anyone tell us (People for Pools) what a .05% increase would translate
to in dollars?

Thanks,
Jodi McLaughlin

[Ken Winterberger & Paula Smith]

Go here for some detail: http://www.muni.org/iceimages/Planning/tax.pdf

A .05% mill rate, as I understand it, mill rates are assessed per $1000 of assessed
value. So, .05% mill rate = .0005 * 1000 = $0.50/$1000 of assessed value - $5 on a
$100000 house.

Is this right?