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Ona Brause

60:21 - 61:02

“The bill changed it so that there is a 4% controlled— this is all my understanding— for a controlled 4% sliver. So I believe what our projected deficit of $12 million— the new paradigm is $6 million as opposed to $12 million. And now we know that there is a control allocation to budget to or to look at to know that's the amount that they could offload to the municipality to a year-over-year basis, so we can plan for it. Previously, there was not necessarily the option to plan for it.”
Speaker
Ona Brause
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
July 16, 2026

From the transcript

We saw this very large gap this year. The bill changed it so that there is a 4% controlled— this is all my understanding— for a controlled 4% sliver. So I believe what our projected deficit of $12 million— the new paradigm is $6 million as opposed to $12 million. And now we know that there is a control allocation to budget to or to look at to know that's the amount that they could offload to the municipality to a year-over-year basis, so we can plan for it. Previously, there was not necessarily the option to plan for it.

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