The Alaska State Board of Education and Early Development at its Feb. 28, 2024, meeting in Juneau, Alaska. for half a billion dollars in construction and upkeep for schools at its regularly scheduled meeting in Juneau on Wednesday.Typically, only projects from among the top 10 funding requests are granted. This year the governor’s proposed budget includes funding for only the No. 1 school construction priority and top two maintenance projects, totaling less than $9 million.
State School Finance and Facilities Manager Lori Weed said that in the last 10 years, due to fiscal constraints, the state has funded fewer projects for school construction and maintenance projects. Between the fiscal years from 2015 to 2025, the state has funded anywhere from roughly “I just, in my mind, cannot visualize how we can endure these cost escalations that are pretty significantly exceeding the normal background and inflation factors,” he said.
She suggested the board put that question to legislators, and agreed that the costs for some projects seemed unsustainably high. Griffin asked board members to pull out calculators at one point to get the cost per square foot of one proposal — it was $2,600.
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