The Juneau Empire reported that the Juneau School District could be in a $450,000 budget hole this fiscal year if the governor’s vetoes stick.
Included in Gov. Bill Walker’s roughly $1.3 billion in budget vetoes announced last week were cuts to education funding, which amounts to roughly $3 million in school debt reimbursement, $250,000 in student transportation and $200,000 in school operation funding for Juneau.
“My initial thoughts were, let’s figure out exactly what the cuts are, what their impact is, when they’re likely to occur, and then sit down and strategize, but not do that before that,” said the Juneau superintendent. “We have unfortunately spent hundreds of man hours game-planning for scenarios that never took place.”
