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The gang of eight lawmakers tasked with breaking the ongoing deadlock over the state’s biggest fiscal decisions have gotten detailed Alaska history and finance lessons in recent meetings but have yet to directly confront the longstanding issues that continue to plague the state.
The joint Comprehensive Fiscal Plan Working Group ramped up to near daily meetings in the week prior to the Aug. 2 start of the special session Gov. Mike Dunleavy called to solve Alaska’s structural fiscal imbalance and discussed the fundamental operations of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. as well as several existing proposals to revamp the Permanent Fund dividend.