ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED TAXPAYERS (ACT)

             Sales Tax and Capital Projects Initiatives Certified              

NEWS RELEASE

August 9, 2005                         

Two Alliance of Concerned Taxpayers (ACT) initiatives have cleared last official hurdle.  ACT sponsors were notified 

by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Clerk’s office on Friday that both initiatives filed have been certified.  With certification, 

both initiatives have become ballot propositions.  The capital projects spending cap is now called Ballot Proposition 

Number 4 and the sales tax cap is now called Ballot Proposition Number 5.

Voters in the October 2005 municipal election will now have the opportunity to support or reject these issues.  Proposition 

4, will lower the assembly spending limit for capital projects from $1.5 to $1 million and require a 60% voter approval for 

any capital project with a total cost of more than $1 million.  Proposition 5 will cap sales tax at 2% on the first $500 in 

retail sales and require a public vote for future increases.

Soldotna, Alaska (August 5, 2005) -– The Borough Clerk has notified initiative sponsors that the required 1,530 voter 

signatures have been verified. The borough has certified the capital projects cap initiative as ballot proposition #4 and the 

sales tax cap initiative as ballot proposition #5 in the October 2005 municipal election.  

“ACT volunteers worked very hard to put these two issues on the ballot.  The public now has the opportunity to decide 

their fate on October 4th.  A vote in support of Propositions 4 & 5 will give tax payers more control over future borough 

spending”, said Patricia Falkenberg, Sales Tax Initiative Prime Sponsor.

McBride went on to say, “Candidates making statements against these propositions are part of the problem, not part of 

the solution.  Borough spending has increased faster than the economy can support and failure to deal with this reality is 

the reason for huge budget deficits in recent years.  Listen carefully to what each candidate claim they will do about future 

budget shortfalls and reject those who’s only solution to this fundamental problem is to throw more money at it.”

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