House Finance Committee, led by Rep. Paul Seaton, is looking to stuff some $87 million more in the Capital budget today — these are items that are not related to capital projects:
AHFC: $2 million for weatherization
DEED: $20 million more than base student allocation
DEEC: $6 million for pre-K, preschool
DEED: $403,400 for three education specialists
HSS: $48 million for Medicaid, supplemental
HSS: $18 million for clean up of a drafting error
University of Alaska: $7 million for deferred maintenance
DCCED: $20 million for Port of Anchorage and $1.6 million for Port of Nome
DCCED: $200,000 for Goldstream Valley Restoration project
DCCED: $15,000 for Fairbanks volunteers for policing
DCCED: language change on cruise ship berth expansion
The Democrat majority says it will accept these reductions from minority Republicans:
DCCED: -$250,000, a reduction taking away the increase added for the Healthcare Transformation Project.
(This information comes from a confidential document slipped to Must Read Alaska from the House Majority.)
They sure love spending other people’s money. I’ve wanted a brand new Harley Davidson & an RV for several years now but they still havn’t appeared in my driveway. However my wife’s bad ankle was surgically repaired. We had to decide where to spend our existing funds. States need to do the same.
eccentric film flam carpetbaggers,,,,
Some of these items are capital items
Republicans deferred Medicaid costs from last year’s budget so they claim larger budget decreases. So $48 million of the $87 million is for Medicaid that is required by law to be appropriated. But let’s not let a little honesty get in the way of politics.
HSS: $18 million for clean up of a drafting error. WTF
We pinned all our hopes on oil, now we pin them on “The Fund.”
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