{"id":5241,"date":"2019-03-08T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:21:07","slug":"ramifications-governor-dunleavys-proposed-fy20-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2019\/03\/08\/ramifications-governor-dunleavys-proposed-fy20-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramifications of Governor Dunleavy&#039;s proposed FY20 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Several community budget meetings took place in February, and the Board of Education met for two days this week to\u00a0take a\u00a0sobering look at what the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District would have to cut to begin to meet\u00a0<\/b><b>the Governor&#8217;s proposed FY20 reduction to state funding.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>The Governor Michael J. Dunleavy 2019-2020 State Budget proposed drastic cuts to education funding<br \/>\n<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><b><b>Alaska State Legislators could honor the FY20 education funding put into law in 2018 by the 30th Legislature, or put forth an alternative FY20 budget<\/b><\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>KPBSD schools are funded by both the State of Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula Borough<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>One-page printable PDF flyer: <a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/03\/2019_March-KPBSD-22.4-million-in-proposed-cuts.pdf\">Snapshot of $22.4 million in cuts to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/03\/2019_March-KPBSD-22.4-million-in-proposed-cuts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5242\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/03\/2019_March-KPBSD-22.4-million-in-proposed-cuts-659x1024.png\" alt=\"2019_March KPBSD 22.4 million in proposed cuts\" width=\"517\" height=\"803\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>In addition to this list, $5 million further in cuts would be needed to meet the deficit the Governor&#8217;s proposed budget would create for the KPBSD.<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<b>State funding reductions link to how much the Borough can fund education for the school district, which results in an even further reduction to education funding to KPBSD. <\/b><br \/>\n<b>Current bills before the legislature may also affect Borough revenue if passed, which would affect Borough\u00a0revenue, and\u00a0create an even larger deficit.<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080\">What can you do?<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>Contact\u00a0your state legislator\u00a0via phone, email, or attend a town hall meeting<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><b>Testify\u00a0at a legislative hearing in a LIO office, make a phone call, or write a letter<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Attend Borough Assembly meetings, talk to Assembly members about &#8220;local&#8221; Borough funding<br \/>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Talk to\u00a0your principal or school site council about the\u00a0impact of education funding\u00a0reductions to your school<br \/>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Advocate\u00a0for a\u00a0realistic state fiscal plan, speak up and share your positive stories about education<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/departments.aspx?id=38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBSD Finance Department<\/a> webpage<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/w3.legis.state.ak.us\/\">The Alaska State Legislature<\/a> website<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/communications.aspx?id=30098\">The Legislature and KPBSD<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PDF flyer: <a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/03\/2019-Kenai-Peninsula-Borough-School-District-state-legislators-with-schools.pdf\">2019 Kenai Peninsula Borough School District state legislators and respective schools in their districts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several community budget meetings took place in February, and the Board of Education met for two days this week to\u00a0take a\u00a0sobering look at what the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2019\/03\/08\/ramifications-governor-dunleavys-proposed-fy20-budget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ramifications of Governor Dunleavy&#039;s proposed FY20 Budget&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[198,638],"class_list":["post-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpbsd-district-stories","tag-budget","tag-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}