Jim Anderson
49:24 - 49:51
"If you cut breakfast, you can reduce FTE, or you can cut benefits from staff. But as soon as you cut benefits, they're going to quit, and now you're going to have, you know, 15 or 20 schools without a cafeteria manager again."
“If you cut breakfast, you can reduce FTE, or you can cut benefits from staff. But as soon as you cut benefits, they're going to quit, and now you're going to have, you know, 15 or 20 schools without a cafeteria manager again.”
- Speaker
- Jim Anderson
- Timestamp
- 49:24 – 49:51
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- November 2, 2026
From the transcript
A lot of the things that we're looking at right now, I think that's what we'll talk about when, uh, Member Blakeslee puts it on the agenda. I mean, you can look it. If you cut breakfast, you can reduce FTE, or you can cut benefits from staff. But as soon as you cut benefits, they're going to quit, and now you're going to have, you know, 15 or 20 schools without a cafeteria manager again. And so that was what Katie kind of inferred to, or intimated, when we, when we talk about it at the Finance Committee meetings, um, or, or future work sessions.
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