East Anchorage Assembly members Forrest Dunbar and South Anchorage Assembly Suzanne LaFrance are proposing at today's assembly meeting that elected politicians should receive a subsidy for public service. When you are elected to public office you are a public service not entitled to anything except to serve the public. No benefits for public service. This ordinance needs to be defeated immediately. Anchorage taxpayers do not need to pay for elected officials child care.
Under Alaska State statues once a borough chooses home rule option. The Alaska State Troopers are not longer mandatory for police protection. The responsibility of the police protection is the boroughs responsibility. Which means Kodiak taxpayers pick up 100 percent of the cost instead of some of the cost as it is now. Village safety officers which are assigned to each village would be eliminated. Kodiak Police would be responsible for police protection in each village or each village would have to pay for their own protection. Larsen Bay, Karluk and Akhiok are unincorporated so the Kodiak Police would have send extra officers to live in these villages to give these villages law and order. Old Harbor, Ouzinkie and Port Lions would have to either have an agreement with the Kodiak Police Department to cover their villages or pay for the police protection themselves or have the village council or the local native organization help pay for law enforcement for their villages. Please say no to Kodiak Island Borough consolidation because it will cost Kodiak taxpayers more money to maintain the borough then not be home rule.
