40:16 - 40:59
"I haven't wanted to spend down to fund balance down to 5%, and I never thought I would co-author a memo suggesting we spend down to 4%. I have been deeply grumpy— is a polite word— this weekend, not at the maker of the original memo, but at the circumstances in which we find ourselves It's atrocious"
“I haven't wanted to spend down to fund balance down to 5%, and I never thought I would co-author a memo suggesting we spend down to 4%. I have been deeply grumpy— is a polite word— this weekend, not at the maker of the original memo, but at the circumstances in which we find ourselves It's atrocious”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 40:16 – 40:59
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 4, 2026
From the transcript
I haven't wanted to spend down to fund balance down to 5%, and I never thought I would co-author a memo suggesting we spend down to 4%. I have been deeply grumpy— is a polite word— this weekend, not at the maker of the original memo, but at the circumstances in which we find ourselves It's atrocious, and it comes at a time when I receive through my school board account really encouraging emails saying that the Municipality of Anchorage has restored their fund balance to a healthy level. That's great. Why can't we do that?
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