William Falsey
29:32 - 29:46
"we're to the place now where we're saying, can we afford to buy laptops? So finding a cut of this target, as the budget director said, it's not going to be easy. There's going to be— you'll have to do less with less."
“we're to the place now where we're saying, can we afford to buy laptops? So finding a cut of this target, as the budget director said, it's not going to be easy. There's going to be— you'll have to do less with less.”
- Speaker
- William Falsey
- Timestamp
- 29:32 – 29:46
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
$2 Million of that might just be running an election, and there's no scenario where you say we're not running the election this year. So when you actually get into the free variables, the choices that the departments get to make, we are all the way down to vapors. I mean, we're, we're to the place now where we're saying, can we afford to buy laptops? So finding a cut of this target, as the budget director said, it's not going to be easy. There's going to be— you'll have to do less with less.
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