Municipality of Anchorage v. Repasky

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 Mys-trom 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. 'We conclude that the item veto power granted by the Anchorage Municipal Charter extends to the assembly's school district budget and local source appropriation…