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The detailed number for the borough budget is $173,496,346. And will require taxpayers to pay $13.799 for every $100,000 in value of their property. That mill rate is just under 1% less (down .092 mills) from last year.
Ward says he was able to check several boxes with the spending plan, including keeping it $6,594,684 under the voter approved tax revenue cap, and he put 10% of tax revenue, $12,006,660, in the Capital Improvement and Maintenance Reserve. The biggest expense in the budget is the contribution to the school district, and there is no change from last year.
He also balanced the budget but only with leftover money from last year. $5,643,294 went unspent.
The Carlson Center is proposed to go under Fairbanks North Star Borough management with expanded services, such as an indoor play area, pickle ball and programming for teenagers, in a new budget proposed by Mayor Bryce Ward, who also wants to reduce property taxes by 0.92 of a mill.
Officials outlined the Carlson Center change on Wednesday at a news conference announcing a new budget proposal for the borough with remarks by the mayor about the State of the Borough. The assembly will be briefed on the spending plan at its regular meeting today.
Ward is looking to add $1 million in borough spending overall, for a total of $173.4 million, excluding service areas and grants, over what was approved for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30.
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The Fairbanks North Star Borough and its biggest public employee union continued to disagree on multiple issues, including wages and paid leave, at contract talks Tuesday.
The union is seeking for the borough to provide 80 hours of paid leave for employees during catastrophes, pandemics, weather events, emergencies, unanticipated events or shutdowns. The borough is proposing to provide 40 hours of administrative leave to members who are not called to work due to a public disaster.
âI think we are being very generous offering 40 hours,â Michelle Michel, borough human resources director, told union negotiators.
âYou keep saying that but you are not being generous,â responded union negotiator Rita Heselton.
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