Tuesday, February 25, 2020 I wrote a blog opposing this idea until I actually read this proposition and found out what we need to correct a wrong by having all parts of Anchorage Municipality have two Assembly people. When the municipality was proposed to Greater Anchorage voters they decided that 11 people should on the assembly this is great in theory. However this always left a neighborhood of the municipality with only one assembly member since the 1980's that has been the Downtown, Fairview and Mountain View. Conservatives will argue this will be a power grab for the liberals to maintain control. No it actually makes it all the members have the same workload. For the past thirty years Assemblyman like Allen Tesche, Charles Wohlforth, Pat Flynn and current assemblyman Chris Constant have to perform twice as much work because they are the only assembly member of that district.
Greater Anchorage Borough population estimate is 291,538 in population for 2020 census.
Under 2 for All you divide the municipality by 6 of nearly the same population.
Each Assembly district would have the same population of 48,590 for each district.
Current Assembly district model you take the estimated population of 291,538 then you divide it by 11 to create the one single member district which is 26,503 in population for the single member district. Now for the rest of the Greater Anchorage Borough minus that single member district you get population of 265,035 which you divide this by 5 district 2-6 would have the population of 53,007 for each district.
Yes it cost an additional $62,000 a year for adding an assembly man but the truth you are actually help other members by having each assembly district have two members instead of one.
For equal representation please vote yes on Prop 12. Here is the the links for more information on this question. https://www.yeson12anchorage.com/
https://www.facebook.com/2forallAnchorage/
