Paul McDonogh
32:53 - 33:16
“the shortfall in student nutrition is something that other school districts are seeing everywhere. I've seen recently like a Georgia school district had an equally sized $6.8 million shortfall where ours is $7.5 million.”
- Speaker
- Paul McDonogh
- Timestamp
- 32:53 – 33:16
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- November 2, 2026
From the transcript
And this is why a larger, like, a growing movement of states are going to universal meals. It's cost-saving in that the administrative burden that it takes where ASD earlier today announced that it's creating more administrative positions to be able to perform the actuarial and predictive budgeting to assess like the demographic swings Trends in student populations. It's a really complicated issue for us to be able to reliably predict. And so while this is like a large-looking number, the shortfall in student nutrition is something that other school districts are seeing everywhere. I've seen recently like a Georgia school district had an equally sized $6.8 million shortfall where ours is $7.5 million.
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