If you don’t like ‘fantasy,’ here are a few alternatives. Farcical? Nonsensical? Irrational? How about dishonest?
Anchorage Assembly Chair Christopher Constant speaks during the meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. regarding comments I made about Mayor Dave Bronson’s proposed budget for 2024. The board suggested that the budget process is a negotiation, the mayor’s proposal is fair, that my mission is to raise taxes, and that the members of the Assembly should be the “adults in the governance process.” The board took exception to my use of the word “fantasy,” labeling it hyperbole. Maybe they were right.
Here’s the thing. What Mayor Bronson promised in his 120-day memo and the press release that accompanied the release of the budget is simply not possible to deliver. He promises he will reduce the budget and he promises he will deliver the services we as a city need. In a highly effective administration, it would be very difficult to both cut the budget and provide the services needed to operate our city. This administration cannot be honestly described as highly effective.
The board conceded the mayor made “tacit acknowledgements of past budgeting mistakes” by increasing snow-clearing funds this year. Did they ask themselves what “mistakes” he made in this budget? One man’s budget priority is another man’s mistake, I guess. The mayor’s decision to hold the line on spending last year is exactly why we had the snow debacle. The mayor’s decision to do the same across the whole municipality this year is exactly why I said what I said.
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