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The halls of the state Capitol will be a little quieter next week, with 19 Alaska lawmakers expected to be in Washington for an annual meeting of the Energy Council. The late-week trip will likely affect floor and committee schedules. Half the Senate's 20 members are expected to participate in the conference.  

Rural lawmakers hoping the governor requests more than $300 million to replace or renovate several schools made their case earlier this month, during a three-village swing with the governor through a chunk of Southwest Alaska. In an interview with the Drums, Gov. Sean Parnell said he'll work on putting a plan together, but it won't be easy and could take several years. Lyman Hoffman and Donny Olson and Reps. Bob Herron and Neal Foster - to the all-ages schools in the villages of Alakanuk, Kipnuk and N  

The halls of the state Capitol will be a little quieter next week, with 19 Alaska lawmakers expected to be in Washington for an annual meeting of the Energy Council. The late-week trip will likely affect floor and committee schedules. Half the Senate's 20 members are expected to participate in the conference.  

The halls of the state Capitol will be a little quieter next week, with 19 Alaska lawmakers expected to be in Washington for an annual meeting of the Energy Council. The late-week trip will likely affect floor and committee schedules. Half the Senate's 20 members are expected to participate in the conference.  

Alaska's 2010 legislative session is one-third of the way toward the April 19 adjournment, and the pace of meetings and hallway lobbying in the Capitol has picked up as the limitations of what can be accomplished in a 90-day session sinks in with lawmakers and constituent groups. Last week, the Capitol hallways were crowded with contractors and oil service companies; the week before teachers and school administrators were in town; the week prior was labor's turn, with union executives collaring legislato  

Rural lawmakers hoping the governor requests more than $300 million to replace or renovate several schools made their case last week, during a three-village swing with the governor through a chunk of Southwest Alaska. In an interview with the Drums this week, Gov. Sean Parnell said he'll work on putting a plan together, but it won't be easy and could take several years. Lyman Hoffman and Donny Olson and Reps. Bob Herron and Neal Foster -- to the all-ages schools in the villages of Alakanuk, Kipnuk and  

The co-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says he wants to see Gov. Sean Parnell's priorities for addressing school construction needs in rural Alaska. Sen. Lyman Hoffman recently joined Parnell and other legislators in touring schools that were outdated and overcrowded. He said unorganized outlying communities cannot pass bond issues for a new school the way a city like Anchorage can.  

State legislators are in negotiations with Gov. Sean Parnell as to how $1 billion in surplus state revenues will be spent. In total, the state will have a $2.2 billion surplus in the current 2010 budget year and an additional estimated surplus of about $400 million next year. Parnell has recommended that $1.1 billion of this be deposited into a special education account in the treasury to advance funds to school districts around the state.

The ratio of three-fourths of the money going to agencies and one-fourth to communities is one that we don't like   -Johnny Ellis

 

State legislators are in negotiations with Gov. Sean Parnell as to how $1 billion in surplus state revenues will be spent. In total, the state will have a $2.2 billion surplus in the current 2010 budget year and an additional estimated surplus of about $400 million next year. Parnell has recommended that $1.1 billion of this be deposited into a special education account in the treasury to advance funds to school districts around the state.

The ratio of three-fourths of the money going to agencies and one-fourth to communities is one that we don't like   -Johnny Ellis

 

Gov. Sean Parnell had a pleasant surprise for legislators in Juneau Feb. 2: a $2.2 billion state budget surplus. That's up $700 million from $1.5 billion estimated as a surplus for the current fiscal year of 2010 that was projected two months ago by the state Department of Revenue. Oil prices are now higher and Parnell asked the revenue department to update its forecast as the governor prepared his fiscal 2010 supplemental appropriation request to the Legislature.

I am asking the Legislature to approve these funds quickly so that state agencies can start the process of secure contractors now, rather than waiting for the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1   -Sean Parnell