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Staff recommends time-limited 'home rule' carve-out to allow Lake Liner spending
Summary
Town staff explained Arizona's expenditure-limitation rules (Article 9, Section 20) and recommended pursuing a voter-approved, time-limited alternative limitation (home rule) that would exclude Lake Liner expenditures from the limit; council generally supported exploring a 2028 ballot referral with extensive public outreach.
Michael (Speaker 6), the town's expenditure-limitation expert, walked council through the constitutional framework that sets municipal spending limits and the three factors the Economic Estimates Commission uses to calculate each year's figure: a base, an inflation factor and a population adjustment.
He explained the difference between excludable revenues (debt proceeds, many grants, certain investment income) and non-excludable revenues that…
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