Kevin McCabe (R – Big Lake)
It is telling that none of the House or Senate finance committee co-chairs are part of the group. The next meeting is this Wednesday at 2 pm at the Anchorage LIO. Don’t hold your breath for a comprehensive plan. There has been several of these groups over the decades. Zero has changed. There are three levers: Permanent Fund, spending, revenues. That’s it. A comprehensive plan will require pulling a bit on all three, which is unlikely. And even if they manage to do the impossible, whatever results from the group will still need to go through the legislative process. Which means a bill that goes to at the very least the finance committees and then the floor. The next special session is set to start in just over three weeks. But according to many at the meeting, it won’t begin until the group is finished. As I said last week, most legislators do not want to go back to Juneau in August. My bet is it gets pushed back to September. In addition to the fi
GOVERNOR DUNLEAVY TO PRESENT HIS COMPREHENSIVE FISCAL & POLICY PLAN FOR ALASKA
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What the hell is happening in Juneau - The Alaska Landmine
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Vital Alaska programs in limbo as legislators pause negotiations until August Alex Bengel © Provided by Fairbanks KTVF Alaska State Capitol building in Juneau
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - Certain programs in the State of Alaska are seeing their funding stop as the state legislature failed to meet the three-fourths vote requirement to continue funding from the Constitutional Budget Reserve (CBR).
Since it was established in 1990, the CBR has become a funding source for various government programs. According to Representative Grier Hopkins, these include, “oil tax credits that we owe the oil companies to make sure that they get what the law says.”
The Sunday Minefield - June 27, 2021 - The Alaska Landmine
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