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Speaker A
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."
“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
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 82:34 – 83:28
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- May 14, 2026
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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