Ona Brause
20:16 - 20:48
"that's exactly what the reason or the outcome of a continuation budget is. If, you know, we're working from a base budget of about 2010, and if the 2010 overtime number was never adjusted, then that would be the number we are working with every single year."
“that's exactly what the reason or the outcome of a continuation budget is. If, you know, we're working from a base budget of about 2010, and if the 2010 overtime number was never adjusted, then that would be the number we are working with every single year.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brause
- Timestamp
- 20:16 – 20:48
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 16, 2026
From the transcript
And saying that it's really up to the departments to request those changes. So is this really a feature of our continuation budgeting process where we copy-paste the prior year, make some adjustments? So that's kind of why these things get carried forward. To the Chair, yes, that's exactly what the reason or the outcome of a continuation budget is. If, you know, we're working from a base budget of about 2010, and if the 2010 overtime number was never adjusted, then that would be the number we are working with every single year.
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