1:17
Rachel Blakeslee
53:24 - 54:42
"So the original memo that I put together essentially proposed spending about $6.8 million to restore 50 FTE."
“So the original memo that I put together essentially proposed spending about $6.8 million to restore 50 FTE.”
- Speaker
- Rachel Blakeslee
- Timestamp
- 53:24 – 54:42
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 4, 2026
From the transcript
Thank you, Dr. Bryant and President Jacobs. So the deliberations that we're having tonight really manifested on Friday when we received a letter from 12 members of the House majority in the legislature expressing their confidence that we will be receiving the full amount of funding that that districts across the state could get, meaning about $32.2 million for ASD. With that letter coming on a Friday morning, I quickly created a memo trying to balance both that confidence with the risk that Dr. Bryant just alluded to and spoke to. Um, and so with the guidance of our CFO and learning that our unassigned fund balance is currently at about $7 million, I started with an initial version of this memo that essentially allocated an appropriation that did not exceed that threshold. So the original memo that I put together essentially proposed spending about $6.8 million to restore 50 FTE.
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