Dunleavy vetoes $123k for Mt. Edgecumbe maintenance position
Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed about $123,000 from the state budget Wednesday that was earmarked for a maintenance position at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka.
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Tag: Sen. Bert Stedman
Bill offers relief for Mt. Edgecumbe High School’s maintenance backlog
A bill that could improve Mt. Edgecumbe High School’s chances at winning major maintenance funding – and possibly building new dorms and teacher housing – had a first hearing in the capitol Friday morning (4-4-25).
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Sen. Stedman says no money coming to start P-burg hospital, or to finish Sitka’s Katlian Bay Road
Sitka's Katlian Bay Road is three-quarters complete, but $27 million short in funding. Petersburg's hospital has yet to break ground. Neither project got "10 cents" in next year's capital budget.
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‘There are still things we can do’: Sitka’s legislators join unsuccessful effort to override governor’s education veto
Both Rep. Rebecca Himschoot and Sen. Bert Stedman joined the effort to override Gov. Dunleavy's veto of SB140, which would have been the first major funding boost for public education in eight years.
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Fearing a financial ‘house on fire,’ Stedman warns against overdrawing the Permanent Fund to pay dividends
Sitka Sen. Bert Stedman says Alaskans will keep receiving dividend checks, despite a worrisome report from the AK Perm Fund Corp. that the earnings reserve account will be exhausted in four years. "We could skip inflation-proofing for a year or two," he says, "but what you can't do is start over-drawing the Permanent Fund."
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