Opinion ID: 2631894
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Effect of AS 14.14.060(c)'s time requirements

Text: Second, Long, Repasky, and the school district argue that the process AS 14.14.060(c) describes and the schedule it contemplates would be incompatible with the delays mayoral vetoes would cause. They note that the statute provides that if the assembly does nothing for thirty days after receiving the budget, the budget proposal becomes the budget and local source appropriation. [102] The municipality responds that this simply means that local powers over the school budget are cut off after thirty days, and that AS 14.14.060 does not mean nor imply that during the allotted 30 day period the Municipality cannot exercise its home rule powers. We find the municipality's argument more persuasive. Alaska Statute 14.14.060(c) only addresses the appropriation process and does not undertake to describe all events that may follow the assembly's enactment of a school budget ordinance.