Ona Brouse
27:23 - 28:26
"It also has to do with the million dollars in the sheltering line item that was part of the 1Q budget cut, and we are still needing to move those expenses out of the alcohol tax and into the general government operating budget of the health department."
“It also has to do with the million dollars in the sheltering line item that was part of the 1Q budget cut, and we are still needing to move those expenses out of the alcohol tax and into the general government operating budget of the health department.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brouse
- Timestamp
- 27:23 – 28:26
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Captured at
- August 20, 2026
From the transcript
Part of that has to do with the encumbrances and moving dollar amounts back and forth. It also has to do with the million dollars in the sheltering line item that was part of the 1Q budget cut, and we are still needing to move those expenses out of the alcohol tax and into the general government operating budget of the health department. So you see about 2/3 of the way down the page, the million dollars disappeared disappears from the budget line, so that needs to move, and then the spend will be corrected. And some of the encumbrances are slightly over their total dollar amounts in either the alcohol tax or the marijuana tax, and those will be corrected as well as they move through their accounting process. But for the most part, the grants are out the door and program operations are being billed for the positions that are assigned within the um, alcohol tax.
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