Anchorage Assembly unanimously passes Mayor LaFrances 2025 budget [Video]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The Anchorage Assembly unanimously passed the 2025 city budget proposed by Mayor Suzanne LaFrance’s administration Tuesday night.

The general government budget came in at just under $639 million, according to the Municipality Office of Management and Budget. That total is roughly $235,000 under the estimated tax cap, according to Mayor LaFrance’s office, the maximum amount the city can collect in property taxes.

“It passed unanimously, it stayed modestly under the tax cap,” Assembly Chairman Chris Constant said in an interview Wednesday. “It addresses really critical needs in the city that the voters that our constituents have been kind of demanding that we address.”

The budget includes funding for addressing homelessness, snow removal operations, and new public safety measures among other items, according to LaFrance’s office.

LaFrance has made improving snow removal a priority in her administration, and said that one of the ways the budget will help with that is by increasing snowplow …