By Richard H Dyer | Apache Junction Independent
City of Apache Junction residents since 1985 have voted and approved every four years a home rule option allowing the budget to be set at the local level. The last vote was in 2016. At a work session last week, the Apache Junction City Council discussed seeking a permanent base adjustment budget that would be approved in one election by local residents and would be adjusted annually by population and inflation.
Voters last year asked why the home rule election was needed every four years, Apache Junction City Manager Bryant Powell said at the work session.
“The single biggest thing I heard this last time, after doing it four … times now for me, is ‘Bryant, we just did this. What can you do differently?’ And so this idea of permanent base adjustment is an option for our community to look at and reset that base with all of our component units now in the city for sometime,” he said.
