Ona Brause
24:02 - 24:36
“when it comes to how long do we wait to watch the actuals be different, the answer is depending on the category, anywhere between 3 and 5 years. And so, because we roll averages, if there is a 1-year spike in a spend, we're not gonna change the budget. We're going to recognize how and why that spike happens, try to control to it. If we know that it is an ongoing change, then we would have to address that budgetary change.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brause
- Timestamp
- 24:02 – 24:36
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 16, 2026
From the transcript
Yeah, at what point do we start to just tell it, tell a different story to ourselves and our budget? There's a, there's, there's a different timeframes and different ways that we do it, but when it comes to how long do we wait to watch the actuals be different, the answer is depending on the category, anywhere between 3 and 5 years. And so, because we roll averages, if there is a 1-year spike in a spend, we're not gonna change the budget. We're going to recognize how and why that spike happens, try to control to it. If we know that it is an ongoing change, then we would have to address that budgetary change.
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