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Administration outlines $1.2 billion six-year capital needs; warns maintenance is shifted to bonds
Summary
OMB staff told the assembly the memo shows roughly $1.2 billion in six-year capital requests and that recurring maintenance often appears in bond requests rather than operating budgets, inflating bond totals and deferring routine upkeep.
Office of Management and Budget staff told the Anchorage Assembly that departmental requests in the 120-day memo add up to about $1.2 billion over six years and that a substantial portion of those requests fund recurring maintenance that has historically been paid through bonds rather than the operating budget.
Why it matters: Staff and assembly members said routine maintenance lines for drainage, signage, traffic signals and similar annual programs are often listed in bond and capital requests rather than as ongoing operating costs. "If we were to remove the annual funding lines from all of our bond requests that we ask…
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