Kristin Smith
10:11 - 10:44
"We know that funding coming from the federal level is a lot less than it has been. In many forms, which means that the city is having to make up for a lot of different things. It's not just the school. We know the fuel costs are increasing."
“We know that funding coming from the federal level is a lot less than it has been. In many forms, which means that the city is having to make up for a lot of different things. It's not just the school. We know the fuel costs are increasing.”
- Speaker
- Kristin Smith
- Timestamp
- 10:11 – 10:44
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- May 21, 2026
From the transcript
We know that funding coming from the federal level is a lot less than it has been. In many forms, which means that the city is having to make up for a lot of different things. It's not just the school. We know the fuel costs are increasing. We know that— I don't know if people saw the opinion piece that Mayor LaFrance of Anchorage and Mayor Hopkins of Fairbanks had in the ADN a couple days ago, talking about the fact that if the local property tax valuation goes up, then the state contribution goes down.
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