How Mekoryuk is run
Mekoryuk spent $331,000 in the year to June 30, 2022, about $1,615 per resident. (A Census Bureau estimate.)
What stands out about how Mekoryuk is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $1,615 per resident a year, or $4.42 a day
The biggest line: water & other utilities, at 30% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Mekoryuk didn’t report all of its 2022 figures to the Census Bureau, so most of these numbers are the Bureau’s estimates.
Lower Kuskokwim School District
Mekoryuk’s K–12 school district, shared with Bethel, Chefornak, Eek, Goodnews Bay, Kwethluk and more. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $45,371 per pupil, $13,034 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Alaska districts overall: 24% local, 55% state, 21% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Mekoryuk
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Mekoryuk yet. Neighbors can add them.
One full-time town employee for every 29 residents
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Mekoryuk.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Alaska HouseState representatives
- 3Alaska SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Alaska
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Mekoryuk’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Mekoryuk is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll (for Mekoryuk, mostly the Bureau’s estimates). School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.