City of Fairbanks v. Fairbanks Convention & Visitors Bureau

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• concluding that initiative amending a city ordinance that designated the use of the city's hotel tax did not repeal an appropriation
• concluding that initiative could not be an appropriation if it expanded the legislature's authority to allocate funds
• holding that second rationale did not invalidate initiative repealing allocation of bed tax revenues to convention and visitors bureau, since returning control over revenues to city council expanded council's discretion over budgetary matters
• holding that second rationale did not invalidate initiative repealing allocation of bed tax revenues to convention and visitors bureau, since returning control over revenues to city council expanded council's discretion over budgetary matters
• noting that \appropriation\ may be defined more narrowly when considering whether an initiative or referendum repeals an appropriation than when it makes an appropriation
• noting that our cases focus on \two parallel purposes for preventing the making of appropriations through the initiative process\

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