Stephanie Nowers
91:28 - 92:16
“this is just— I think the way to do it is to actually make the cuts, not just set an artificial cap.”
- Speaker
- Stephanie Nowers
- Timestamp
- 91:28 – 92:16
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Captured at
From the transcript
But just back to the point, like, if you want to, if we want to, if there's things that we can cut we can do that. Um, I think next year, for the people who are on the assembly, I think the school district is going to get about $18 million, to your point, from the state, and they didn't budget that in. So if we get to next year and, you know, we feel like, well, they got $18 million, they can bank some of that, um, we can help the borough not have to pay as much, like, that's a decision to be made. But this is just— I think the way to do it is to actually make the cuts, not just set an artificial cap. And last thing I'll say, we started about $10 mils when I started 6 years ago, and now we're under $8.
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