Ona Brause
28:48 - 29:23
“that's what we're doing as part of this budget cycle, partially because the Assembly has requested that analysis, but also because we ourselves, you know, I'm now in the 3-year range where we have stabilized the budget enough to know and compare across pre-pandemic operations and post-pandemic operations what those OT numbers have been and whether or not the, um, the spikes in the OT are attributable to cost increases or they're attributable to operational changes that we have to adjust for.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brause
- Timestamp
- 28:48 – 29:23
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 16, 2026
From the transcript
Correct. And that, that's what we're doing as part of this budget cycle, partially because the Assembly has requested that analysis, but also because we ourselves, you know, I'm now in the 3-year range where we have stabilized the budget enough to know and compare across pre-pandemic operations and post-pandemic operations what those OT numbers have been and whether or not the, um, the spikes in the OT are attributable to cost increases or they're attributable to operational changes that we have to adjust for. Copy. Okay, thank you. Okay, and I know we were joined in person by Miss Scout just a couple minutes ago, and next I have in the queue Mr. McCormick.
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