“We’re not going to be brow-beaten to continue violating the law,' said Anchorage Assembly Vice Chair Chris Constant, amid a dispute over payments for work on a homeless navigation center authorized by the Bronson administration without Assembly approval.
“We’re not going to be brow-beaten to continue violating the law,” Constant said. “We’re not going to do it. There is no power that the mayor legally has to spend money from the treasury without authorization of this body.”
Mayor Bronson said he’s agnostic about how to actually resolve the bill. He said he just wants the lawyers for the Assembly and his administration to figure it out. “I worry about the credibility of the city, of the municipality in the sense that when we are legally obligated to pay something, the message that it sends, especially to the contracting public, that ‘Oh, there’s always a risk when you do business with the municipality, you have to take them to court to get paid,’” Bronson said.
The Assembly specifically wants a meeting with the mayor and legal team to be briefed on the proposed settlement and legal analysis. The administration has said it has a deadline on Friday to pay the contractor, but was unsure what the basis of that deadline was.
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