Jharrett Bryantt
124:36 - 125:39
"Those conversations are going to happen here in the boardroom over the next couple months, and by December I would hope we'd have a pretty good understanding of what the options are, and then we'll need to make some decisions going into February."
“Those conversations are going to happen here in the boardroom over the next couple months, and by December I would hope we'd have a pretty good understanding of what the options are, and then we'll need to make some decisions going into February.”
- Speaker
- Jharrett Bryantt
- Timestamp
- 124:36 – 125:39
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- September 1, 2026
From the transcript
Now, we don't have to make all those decisions right now, but I really would be remiss if I didn't mention it because it's going to come fast, this, this decision point that we'll need to make around our FY28 budget. We're essentially in the FY28 budget planning season, even though we have until March to transmit that information to the Assembly. Those conversations are going to happen here in the boardroom over the next couple months, and by December I would hope we'd have a pretty good understanding of what the options are, and then we'll need to make some decisions going into February. But these topics of managing the tensions between the needs we see in schools today with the pressures that we see on the other side of this fiscal year are really significant and very consequential for the board going into the next few months. So for me, one of the most difficult parts of getting to just this initial proposal is trying to find the right balance between managing our current needs with the needs that we face at the other side of this fiscal year.
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