Borough Attorney flip-flops on Tax Cap Ordinance
Aug.21, 2005
Palmer-- In an acrobatic political flip-flop, Mat-Su Borough Attorney Teresa Williams now has no objection to the legal enforcability of the Mat-Su Tax Cap initiative ballot language.
In June of 2004, Ms.Williams wrote in a letter to the Borough Clerk that the Tax Cap would be "un-enforceble as a matter of law", that it conflicted with State law, and even that the Borough Assembly could not pass it as it would violate it's authority under state statute Title 29.
Now comes Assemblymandeputymayor Jim Colver with a Tax Cap Ordinance exactly the same as the one rejected by the Attorney, but this time the attorney has no objection?
Excuse me for thinking, but could there be a little political motivation here?
Ms. Williams could also not use the Judges order as an excuse to change her mind, as Judge Cutler did not decree the ballot language legal, just that it needed to go on the ballot for voter approval or rejection and that the legality of the Tax Cap would have to be decided after it was passed.
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Williams letter opposing the tax cap initiative