Mat-Su—This week on the Mayor's Minute podcast, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss gives an overview of an extensive list of subjects addressed at last night's Assembly meeting.
• The budget was adopted on Monday with a new areawide mill rate, 9.691— the same rate as last year except for the increase to pay for school and road bonds passed by voters last October. Mayor DeVilbiss submitted three vetoes, which were overturned.
• How raising the exemption threshold on an inventory tax and streamlining business licenses will help business.
• An approval for a new Borough building annex for the public to assemble and workspace for employees.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss announces the adoption of the Borough's budget for next fiscal year. The areawide mill rate is 9.918 and non-areawide mill rate is 0.489.
Click here to listen to a late night overview.
Assemblymembers can still reconsider votes and the Mayor can veto until Monday night.
Mat-Su– This week on Mayor's Minute, Mat-Su borough Mayor, Larry DeVilbiss will talk about the upcoming budget hearings, email notifications for the Assembly agenda, gravel and the Susitna Parkway Pit as well as the Governor's appointee for the late Rep. Carl Gatto's seat.
Mat-Su– This week on the Mayor’s Minute, Mat-Su Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss will discuss title 43, a noise and special events ordinance, an inventory tax, business licenses as well as Charter Schools.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss discusses last night's Assembly meeting. Among the topics: the much-debated amendment idea for the definition of a community council, a proposed task force for the Susitna Watana Dam, 2012 school bonds, and a proposed date change for Borough elections.
Mat-Su– This week on the Mayor's Minute, Mat-Su Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss will talk about the Susitna forest legislation, a land swap with the state in the Government Peak area at Hatcher Pass, the Willow historic preservation plan, Academy Charter School funding as well as the airplane tax repeal.
Mat-Su– This week on the Mayor’s Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVibiss talks about repealing an Airplane tax, postponement of the Susitna Parkway gravel pit ordinance. Support for Fronteras Charter School as well as Goose Creek Correction purchases.
Mat-Su– This week on the Mayor's Minute, Mat-Su Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss discusses support for KABATA, the access road for recreation at Hatcher Pass, on-line payment for borough services, the ethics code and historic preservation among other topics.
Mat-Su–This week on the Mayor's Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss will talk about defending the Record of Decision on the Port MacKenzie Rail, a port technical advisor, a Meadow Lakes Park playground reappropriation, a communications tower with the Mat-Su Borough and Anchorage, the Susitna state forest bill, procurement and utility contracts, two new bridges as well as Port Commisioner Jay Nolfi.
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CORRECTION: The Mayor misspoke on the size of the proposed Susitna Forest...it is 763,200 acres.
Mat-Su–This week on Mayor's Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss talks about the donation to the Sutton Library project, audience participation at Assembly meetings, a natural gas pipeline resolution and other subjects.
MAT-SU—This week on the Mayor's Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss touches on the first LEED certified Gold industrial building in Alaska right here in the Mat-Su, railroad issues, Talkeetna sewer and water rate hike vote, support for House Bill 88, a reconsidered and amended gravel extraction ordinance. The Mayor also gives thanks to Gov. Sean Parnell for supporting the Port MacKenzie Rail Extension with a proposal for a $110 million general obligation bond, and $20 million in the general fund for Borough voter-adopted road bonds. A busy night.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss discusses the adopted gravel ordinance; a postponed (to April 3), newly proposed definition to community councils as well as Assembly policy and procedures, including cell phone communications.
This week on Mayor Larry DeVilbiss' podcast, he touches on last night's Assembly meeting. Wasilla's new library process, changes to the Port Special Use District, and a veto override on reserve funds are topics of discussion.
This week on the Mayor’s Minute, Mayor Larry DeVilbiss will talk about the tower ordinance, the noise ordinance and the Borough’s State and Federal Legislative priorities.
This week on the Mayor's podcast, Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss gives an overview of an Assembly meeting that ran to midnight. Among the topics: the outcome of his vetoes on Bogard Road extension and the road to the Hatcher Pass Ski area. Other topics include support behind a new library in Talkeetna, the Energy Watch drill tonight from 6-8 pm, an earthquake exercise right now at the hospital with Borough responders, and the Borough capital priorities for the Governor's consideration.
This week on the Mayor's Minute podcast, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss discusses a new roof for the school district building along with a new look at the borough procurement process; the Borough ethics code, and a coal display, among other items.
Click to listen to the short overview of Tuesday night's meeting.
This week on the Mayor's podcast, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss highlights the coming new addition to the Dorothy Swanda Jones Building and the Assembly's adoption of a first draft on land use regulations from the Mat-Su Business Alliance. More work to be done.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Mayor Larry DeVilbliss will talk about Bogard Road, approving a new lease at Port MacKenzie, the wood boiler project at Su-Valley Jr./Sr High School and many more topics.
In this week on the Mayor's Minute podcast, two excerpts of speech from Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss are posted here from the lengthy meeting last night. Hundreds of residents turned out at the former Railroad Depot in Palmer to tell the Assembly and Mayor their thoughts on whether the Assembly should pass a resolution that supports a renewed permit for Usibelli Coal Mine company at Wishbone Hill.
In a 5 to 1 vote, the Assembly adopted an amended resolution that supports the renewal of the permit.
Listen here to summarizing remarks from Mayor DeVilbiss, who sponsored the resolution.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Mayor Larry DeVilbiss touches on the weighty Assembly agenda last night. Among the topics he discusses are the ethics code, the subdivision ordinance, the mandatory land use permit, and the flood plain standards.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss talks about the many weighty subjects the Assembly worked through last night, among them: road bonds on the Oct. 4 ballot, Assembly district reapportionment, school bonds, a proposal to select school boardmembers by districts, road powers, a new septage and wastewater advisory board, and more.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss taking time out from work for Borough business. Photo Patty Sullivan/MSBA departure this week on the Mayor's Minute...Tune in, in a hayfield spread out before rugged Talkeetna Mountains with Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss.
The mayor takes off his work gloves next to the tedder, (hay stirring and spreading machine) and talks about Tuesday night's Assembly meeting, among the topics:
the Talkeetna Water & Sewer System rate hike postponement,
tax foreclosures,
the Point MacKenzie Comprehensive Plan amendment,
the authorization to purchase new land for a West Lakes fire station, and
This week on the Mayor's Minute podcast Mayor Larry DeVilbiss talks about his veto for a Borough challenge to the state redistricting plan and talks about state appropriations for Port MacKenzie Rail.
This week on the Mayor's Minute podcast, Mayor Larry DeVilbiss talks about the Cordova Coal Party of 1911, the long range transportation plan update, the expansion to the barge dock, and the postponement of the tall towers ordinance.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss talks about a meeting with the School Board on school bonds and the Assembly effort on redistricting.
This week on the Mayor's Minute podcast, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss talks about the Borough ethics code, office and public meeting space, the coming Sutton Library, Assembly priorities, and the lower tax rate next fiscal year.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Mayor Larry DeVilbiss discusses a unique proclamation for the month of May, the Point MacKenzie Comprehensive Plan, LIDAR and the Susitna Dam, exemption requests from road service areas, Bogard Road and eminent domain, and zoning in the port.
This week on the Mayor's Minute podcast with Mayor Larry DeVilbiss, the budget process has officially begun. Tuesday night the Manager's proposed 2012 budget was presented. Mayor DeVilbiss talks about the upcoming budget process. He also highlights industrial zoning and a $2 million economic stimulus grant.
Hear updates from Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss from an Assembly meeting last night that ended early: 11 pm.
The subject's on this week's Mayor's Minute include: port development and subdivision requirements, a new gravel pit off the Parks Highway, appropriations from school bonds, support for the proposed Susitna Dam, thoughts on the new trails foundation, and an open house this week for the final Environmental Impact Statement for the Port MacKenzie Rail Extension, 6-8 pm at Evangelos in Wasilla.
A new trail foundation, the Knik Arm Crossing, riverbed gravel extraction for erosion control and more subjects are on this week's Mayor's Minute with Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss. The podcast was recorded Wednesday, the morning after a meeting that ended at midnight.
This week on the Mayor's Minute hear an overview of the tall structures ordinance, a new take on road bonds, and the override vote, all from Mayor Larry DeVilbiss.
This week on the Mayor's Minute, Borough Mayor Larry DeVilbiss gives a rundown of a latenight Assembly meeting and other subjects, among them: new floodplain standards, the Assembly ordinance on military airspace expansion efforts, the Board of Fish, & Borough boards and commissions.
This week is the first edition of the Mayor's Minute with new Mayor Larry DeVilbiss.
Recorded Feb. 2, Mayor DeVilbiss gives an overview of a busy Assembly meeting. Some of the topics he highlights include: the adoption of the Port Master Plan, a thank-you to Gov. Sean Parnell for investing in infrastructure, advancement on Bogard Road, school site selection committee membership, and more.
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Mayor Larry DeVilbiss gives highlights of Assembly meetings in his podcast, the Mayor's Minute.
