MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE v. REPASKY

No. S-8985.

34 P.3d 302 (2001)

MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE, Appellant, v. John REPASKY, Jr., Nathan L. Powell, Sandra A. Groeneveld, and Joseph D. Brammer, individually and each as the parent and representative of a minor child, Appellees. Municipality of Anchorage, Appellant, v. Sharon Long, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Greene, Deputy Municipal Attorney, and Mary K. Hughes, Municipal Attorney, Anchorage, for Appellant.

John E. Havelock, Anchorage, for Appellees John Repasky, Jr., Nathan L. Powell, Sandra A. Groeneveld, and Joseph D. Brammer.

Joe P. Josephson, Josephson & Associates, Anchorage, for Appellee Sharon Long.

Howard S. Trickey and Andrena L. Stone, Jermain, Dunnagan & Owens, P.C., Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Anchorage School District.

Before MATTHEWS, Chief Justice, EASTAUGH, BRYNER, and CARPENETI, Justices.


OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In 1995 and again in 1997, after the Anchorage Assembly enacted ordinances for the Anchorage School District's annual budgets and for the local source appropriations for those budgets, Anchorage Mayor Rick Mystrom invoked the item veto power and reduced the total amount of each budget and local source appropriation. Was this a valid exercise of the mayor's veto power? We hold that it was...

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