December 11, 2009 – 07:11 pm
From Don Hunter in Anchorage –

Mayor Dan Sullivan this afternoon vetoed $174,000 in amendments the Assembly added to the 2010 city budget Tuesday.

Sullivan lined out a $124,000 increase in grants for arts organizations, and an additional $50,000 for library materials.

Sullivan noted that both those amendments were on top of other increases added in a compromise budget fashioned largely by Assembly members Patrick Flynn and Jennifer Johnston.

Small numbers in a budget totalling more than $421 million, Sullivan acknowledged. But, he said, “at some point you just have to draw a lin

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