
Tiffany Hall
243:42 - 244:29
“Pre-K and early literacy were moved out of the alcohol tax funding and into the ACE fund, which voters created to expand child care, not backfill existing funding.”
- Speaker
- Tiffany Hall
- Timestamp
- 243:42 – 244:29
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
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From the transcript
Pre-K and early literacy were moved out of the alcohol tax funding and into the ACE fund, which voters created to expand child care, not backfill existing funding. Third, several organizations hold dedicated lines in the Alcohol Tax Fund currently. Those lines began for good reasons when their federal funding changed, and those services matter, but they're now carried forward automatically each year, and they all respond after harm has occurred instead of working to prevent it before it happens. Recover Alaska respectfully asks the assembly to do three things. First, fund $2 million in competitive community grants to reduce the harms of alcohol and fund prevention, upstream prevention and treatment of substance use disorders.