Pat Griffin
82:34 - 83:28
“Fully funding the school request, um Some of you are interested in reducing pressure on the mill rate. We need to protect borough operations and staff and, of course, avoid maintenance deferrals.”
- Speaker
- Pat Griffin
- Timestamp
- 82:34 – 83:28
- Transcript
- Assembly Work Session of May 14, 2026
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kodiak Island Borough
- Captured at
From the transcript
Fully funding the school request, um Some of you are interested in reducing pressure on the mill rate. We need to protect borough operations and staff and, of course, avoid maintenance deferrals. And so I think— so our question tonight, I think, is whether or not— or whether the borough can responsibly kind of bridge this very difficult budget year with With, you know, with that keeping in mind, that pressure that we might be feeling on the mill rate without cutting, you know, staff capacity, without creating new maintenance liabilities, there seems to be some pathways forward, right? One is fully funding the school district because the budget is, you know, already kind of built around that assumption. That assumption turned out to be accurate.
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