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Anchorage School Board hears budget outlook, cautioned on May 15 layoff deadline
Summary
At a work session, Anchorage School District leaders told the school board that uncertainty over state school funding and local tax limits leave the district planning significant use of fund balance and pausing staffing decisions until the legislature acts; May 15 was identified as the statutory cutoff for layoff notices.
The Anchorage School Board met in a work session to discuss the Anchorage School District's preliminary budget and fiscal risks, with Chief Financial Officer Andy Ratliff and the superintendent answering board questions about state funding, fund balance use and deadlines.
Board members were told the district is planning conservatively amid uncertainty in Juneau. Andy Ratliff, chief financial officer, said the district has built its budget using the current statutory Base Student Allocation and that if expected state increases do not materialize the district would spend down its fund balance. “You know, and we are gonna spend out our fund balance,” Ratliff said.
The nut of the discussion was timing and risk: two different school‑funding proposals in the Legislature — House Bill 69 and a separate governor’s bill — could change the district’s…
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