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Ona Brause

26:28 - 27:00

“The $15 million gap that we've talked about for the '27 budget was closed by eliminating vacant funded positions as part of the position adjustments that we'll go through in the AM support.”
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Ona Brause
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Alaska News
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October 16, 2026

From the transcript

The $15 million gap that we've talked about for the '27 budget was closed by eliminating vacant funded positions as part of the position adjustments that we'll go through in the AM support. You'll see that the chief administrative officer was deleted. He is now the municipal manager, but also the entire Chief Administrative Office organization was restructured into other departments. So some of those positions moved around. The Deputy Treasurer position was deleted.

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