
Ona Brouse
54:45 - 55:19
"we have to go through the 2027 budget development in order to determine how and exactly how much of the BSSA can be transitioned during the 2027 budget. It's the intention to clear all of it, but I think while we're finalizing the ACFR and working through '27 development, we'll have more information about how we're actually able to do that."
“we have to go through the 2027 budget development in order to determine how and exactly how much of the BSSA can be transitioned during the 2027 budget. It's the intention to clear all of it, but I think while we're finalizing the ACFR and working through '27 development, we'll have more information about how we're actually able to do that.”
Thank you. I think I heard you say on the tail end, Bill, there in this budget cycle, we are attempting to get rid of the BSSA deficit. In the 2027. Through the chair, we have to go through the 2027 budget development in order to determine how and exactly how much of the BSSA can be transitioned during the 2027 budget. It's the intention to clear all of it, but I think while we're finalizing the ACFR and working through '27 development, we'll have more information about how we're actually able to do that.
The Anchorage Assembly's Budget and Finance Committee-of-the-Whole heard Thursday that five municipal funds carry combined deficits approaching $45 million, with the workers' compensation and IT funds accounting for the largest shortfalls and the 2027 budget cycle set to determine how much can be resolved.

The Anchorage Assembly's Budget and Finance Committee discussed a draft budget priorities resolution Thursday asking the administration to model school-funding versus general-government tradeoffs for fiscal year 2027, with a July 21 target for advancing the measure.
