Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska

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The Municipality of Anchorage (or just Anchorage) is one of sixteen organized boroughs in Alaska.

It is a unified home rule municipality created in 1975 through the unification of the governments of the City of Anchorage and the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, making Anchorage one of the largest municipalities in the nation, encompassing nearly 1,955 square miles from Eklutna in the north to Girdwood and Portage in the south. As a unified government, the Municipality of Anchorage is responsible for services provided in other areas by both a city and a borough (or, in other states, by a city and a county).

The Anchorage Borough is one of eight first-class boroughs in the state.

It is estimated that Anchorage had 279,671 municipal residents in 2007. It is Alaska's largest city and has more than 40 percent of the state's total population.

[edit] Website evaluation

Main article: Evaluation of Alaska borough websites

[edit] The good

• Current and past budgets are available^[1].
• The meeting minutes and full videos are posted.
• Information on the Assembly members (including contact info) is posted^[2].
• Contact information for the Administrators is posted^[3].
• The registered lobbyists are listed^[4].
• Building permit and zoning information is provided^[5].
• Tax information and a property tax database is available^[6].
• Audit reports are posted^[7].
• Some contract information is provided^[8].

[edit] The bad

• No information is provided on how to request public records using the Alaska Public Records Act.
• No checkbook register.

[edit] Taxes

This information is based on a report by the Alaska Office of the Assessor's 2008 report.^[9]

Borough	Class	Property tax	Sales tax	Raw fish tax	Liquor tax	Bed tax	Tobacco tax	Other special taxes
Municipality of Anchorage	Unified home rule			-	-	12%	69.3 mill tax	8% Car rental

[edit] External links

Anchorage

• Municipality of Anchorage website
• Anchorage Borough on E-Reference
• Anchorage Borough on NACO

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