Beth Weldon
45:36 - 46:03
"I'm trying to do the job that we set ourselves up in the fall, so I'm looking for $2 million, so some of my cuts will seem harsh, but I'm also looking at them in service reductions. I'm not looking for them from the manager's budget."
“I'm trying to do the job that we set ourselves up in the fall, so I'm looking for $2 million, so some of my cuts will seem harsh, but I'm also looking at them in service reductions. I'm not looking for them from the manager's budget.”
- Speaker
- Beth Weldon
- Timestamp
- 45:36 – 46:03
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- May 20, 2026
From the transcript
I'll take the short straw so anybody else can do that. So I'm trying to do the job that we set ourselves up in the fall, so I'm looking for $2 million, so some of my cuts will seem harsh, but I'm also looking at them in service reductions. I'm not looking for them from the manager's budget. And so you're— I'll talk to those when those times come, but we're actually looking at service reduction. So like I said, some of them are going to seem really harsh, but I'm trying to come up with $2 million in reductions.
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