Yesterday’s municipal elections saw an overall no vote on the proposition for limited animal control outside of city limits however the district breakdown is mixed.
Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Member Brent Johnson helped create that proposition for advisory vote.
Johnson: “Theres a lot of people in our borough outside of cities who are concerned about pets, the fact is that they don’t want to tax themselves. If somebody’s going to vote no on it their hardly going to vote yes on Prop A2, so we have all the people who voted no on Prop A1 voted no on Prop A2 and a good part of those who voted yes also voted no on the tax part. So it would seem many people would like that just to come out of the general fund, something I am not willing to do, but it is interesting.”
Out of the 23 precincts that were able to vote on Propositions A1, the limited animal control, 13 voted no, seven voted yes, and three were tied.
All but one precinct voted no on the Proposition A2, the .02 mill rate increase to fund that limited animal control.
Seward/Lowell Point voted yes on both the implementation and the funding of A1 and A2.
Johnson said he created the proposition that way because he refused to create the limited animal control without it having a funding source outside of the general fund.
