MacAuley v. Hildebrand

OPINION

ERWIN, Justice.

This appeal concerns a dispute between the Juneau School Board and the unified City and Borough of Juneau regarding which of those two bodies should have accounting control over funds appropri-áted for the operation of schools. 1

In early 1970 a home rule charter was adopted for the borough which directed the borough assembly to make provision for centralized accounting for all borough functions, “including the education function”. Acting under this authority, the assembly enacted Ordinance 70-6 which provides that “[a] 11 accounting functions for all departments,…