Name: Teresa Roble: Prior to 2024, the alcohol tax was used to pay for ASD's Pre-K and Best Beginnings early literacy programs. Currently, both have been moved over to the ACE Fund to free up dollars for homelessness. An early surplus covered that cost shift. This year, that surplus is gone. Keeping ASD preschool in the ACE fund drops its buying power from over $7 million to about $5 million a year.
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Description: Prior to 2024, the alcohol tax was used to pay for ASD's Pre-K and Best Beginnings early literacy programs. Currently, both have been moved over to the ACE Fund to free up dollars for homelessness. An early surplus covered that cost shift. This year, that surplus is gone. Keeping ASD preschool in the ACE fund drops its buying power from over $7 million to about $5 million a year.

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Teresa Roble

246:24 - 246:43

“Prior to 2024, the alcohol tax was used to pay for ASD's Pre-K and Best Beginnings early literacy programs. Currently, both have been moved over to the ACE Fund to free up dollars for homelessness. An early surplus covered that cost shift. This year, that surplus is gone. Keeping ASD preschool in the ACE fund drops its buying power from over $7 million to about $5 million a year.”

Speaker: Teresa Roble
Timestamp: 246:24 – 246:43
Transcript: Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm
Community: Alaska News
Location: Anchorage
Captured at: November 5, 2026

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Prior to 2024, the alcohol tax was used to pay for ASD's Pre-K and Best Beginnings early literacy programs. Currently, both have been moved over to the ACE Fund to free up dollars for homelessness. An early surplus covered that cost shift. This year, that surplus is gone. Keeping ASD preschool in the ACE fund drops its buying power from over $7 million to about $5 million a year.

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