Mayor Bryce Ward introduces his budget proposal for the fiscal year that begins July 1 at a State of the Borough address to be streamed live online starting at 2 p.m. Wednesday. In a break with tradition, the mayor is pitching his budget plan to the public a day ahead of the presentation to the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. Ward aims to introduce a plan that maintains the current level of services with the same or a decreased property tax rate, he has said. Budget planning has focused on âlooking for efficiencies and ways to affect the budget but not what service the folks are receiving,â Ward wrote in an emailed answer to questions.