Jharrett Bryantt
123:45 - 124:36
"$26 million is actually going to be really difficult to balance, especially when our intent is to try to minimize disruption, um, and negative impacts to our students as much as possible. We're getting to that point where we're literally choosing between school safety, security in buildings, versus class size reduction relief."
“$26 million is actually going to be really difficult to balance, especially when our intent is to try to minimize disruption, um, and negative impacts to our students as much as possible. We're getting to that point where we're literally choosing between school safety, security in buildings, versus class size reduction relief.”
- Speaker
- Jharrett Bryantt
- Timestamp
- 123:45 – 124:36
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- September 1, 2026
From the transcript
But I want to underscore some of the comments shared by our CFO Andy Ratliff earlier today, where even though that's a smaller figure to have to reduce in our budget deficit, we have to think about it in the greater context of the $90+ million we already cut from the budget the previous year. And for those of us who've been on the board for a while, we've made enough a number of significant reductions in the years leading up to that. So $26 million is actually going to be really difficult to balance, especially when our intent is to try to minimize disruption, um, and negative impacts to our students as much as possible. We're getting to that point where we're literally choosing between school safety, security in buildings, versus class size reduction relief. Those are the types of impossible decisions decisions that we're going to have to make until we can really get a handle on our long-term pictures.
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