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Ona Brause
39:11 - 39:46
“The outlook for 2028, as mentioned, the projected budget gap is $15 to $30 million. We will get into the details on those numbers in the fiscal plan chart. Costs continue to increase, as Member Baldwin Day mentioned, healthcare, labor, the cost of energy and fuel.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brause
- Timestamp
- 39:11 – 39:46
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 16, 2026
From the transcript
The outlook for 2028, as mentioned, the projected budget gap is $15 to $30 million. We will get into the details on those numbers in the fiscal plan chart. Costs continue to increase, as Member Baldwin Day mentioned, healthcare, labor, the cost of energy and fuel. We have significantly less state funding than we have had, and we will show some charts on that as well. Decreasing alcohol and marijuana tax revenue, overall decreasing, but we do see a slight rebound on the marijuana tax for this current proposal.
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