News from Patrick Flynn

This evening’s Assembly meeting should be mercifully brief as the only items to consider are on the consent agenda, meaning they are either relatively minor or  substantive matters are only for introduction with discussion and debate scheduled to occur at a future meeting.  And, after that, the Assembly essentially takes a hiatus until after the first of the year.  That doesn’t mean we won’t be working, and I have a couple projects that’ll keep me busy.

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So tonight’s (most likely) the night; when the Assembly puts the finishing touches on Anchorage’s 2011 budget.  With all the work that’s gone into it I don’t expect it to take too long, but I’m usually wrong about those predictions because I tend forget most folks like to verbalize their final thoughts on these sorts of things more than I.  (I just write instead.)  That said, I expect there to be some discussion on three budget amendments prior to final passage:

1. Restoration of proposed cuts to People Mover service,
2. Preservation of some sort of library in South Anchorage (either the existing Samson-Dimond branch or some modification thereto), and
3. Funding for an Eastside district plan.

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