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Angie Flick

120:00 - 120:38

“As we looked through the various ways that we can slice and dice sales tax data, the biggest driver was an anything that used fuel. So anything that needed a barge to come up here, anything that needed a plane to come up here, whether that was a thing or a person, you know, those, those were so clear as differences from a year ago. And, and you all know when you drive by anywhere that's got the fuel price, diesel at over $6 is mind-blowing.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Juneau
Captured at
November 2, 2026

From the transcript

I don't have hard data to share with you, but the last couple of years, our non-personnel lapse has been $3, $4, $5 million, and it was only $2 million this year. So I think that some of that cost that impacts the city's ability to give services is seen in that lapse being just $2 million. As we looked through the various ways that we can slice and dice sales tax data, the biggest driver was an anything that used fuel. So anything that needed a barge to come up here, anything that needed a plane to come up here, whether that was a thing or a person, you know, those, those were so clear as differences from a year ago. And, and you all know when you drive by anywhere that's got the fuel price, diesel at over $6 is mind-blowing.