Kat Sorensen
73:18 - 73:27
“all 3 of those levers have to pull for this budget to pass.”
- Speaker
- Kat Sorensen
- Timestamp
- 73:18 – 73:27
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Seward
- Captured at
- October 27, 2026
From the transcript
And they don't— they all have to happen to meet this proposal. That being said, a good example of changes in that is 2 years ago when we presented the budget, there was a proposed bed tax increase. We made amendments to the budget, did not pass the bed tax, and that still moved on forward. So we could— you could do— all 3 of those levers have to pull for this budget to pass. That wasn't as clear as I would have liked it to be.
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