With diesel and gasoline prices hitting record highs this year, Anchorage's vehicle fleets of police cruisers, parks department pickup trucks, buses and heavy equipment have already exceeded fuel budgets.
According to Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration, the budgetary overages are most acute in a few particularly vehicle-reliant municipal departments.spent $1.4 million last year on fuel for the People Mover bus service and its AnchorRides program. “In the first six months of 2022, Transit has already expended $1.3 million,” Demboski said in an email.
• The Anchorage Police Department budgeted $1,052,634 for fuel this year. It has already spent $1,167,577. Budget overages are standard in the course of the fiscal year, with unexpected costs from extra snowplowing or police overtime regularly necessitating a request from the administration for more money from the Assembly.
The Assembly conducted a monthslong process of reviewing applications for how to divvy up the nearly $52 million in ARPA money, and ultimatelyto fund from a wide range of groups. At present, the list includes programs to expand child care, affordable housing for families and workers, adding Wi-Fi to parks and recreation centers, job training and purchasing buildings to house homeless individuals. Several proposals from the mayor’s office are included in the proposal, including $1.
Quinn-Davidson said many of the requests from the mayor’s office were for infrastructure projects that the city typically funds through voter-approved bonds. Likewise, the municipality tends to handle departmental cost overages through supplemental appropriations.
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