Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District
A financial review included in the September 23 board packet projected a roughly $4.48 million FY2027 year-end deficit, despite the adopted budget’s balanced projection.
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Aleutians East Borough School District
Following adoption of the FY27 budget, the Alaska Legislature's HB263 and other sources are expected to bring AEBSD approximately $353,222 in one-time supplemental (Foundation Waterfall) funds and $205,571 in energy-relief funding, plus the Borough increased its local contribution by $100,000 to $1.4 million. Superintendent recommends using much of this one-time money for strategic, non-recurring investments (vans, weight rooms, building improvements, safety/security) rather than new recurring costs.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District
Facing a separate, $4.6 million year-end cash shortfall for FY2026, the district asked the Borough for emergency help. The Borough Assembly authorized up to $5 million in supplemental funding in May 2026; the district ended up drawing $3 million of it to close out the year. That $3 million is now being deducted from the district's FY2027 local funding in quarterly installments, on top of the separate $5.4 million debt-repayment plan.
On June 17, 2026, the board adopted the FY2027 Operating Fund Budget: $57,525,643 in projected revenue against $65,722,155 in planned spending, with the roughly $8.2 million gap covered by drawing down the district's existing fund balance (savings) rather than by new revenue.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
MSBSD's adopted FY2026 budget already cut school discretionary budgets 15%, department budgets 18%, the transportation subsidy 13%, and eliminated 159 positions. In December 2025 the district told the board that enrollment has been declining since 2024 and is expected to keep falling, and a March 2026 budget work session was titled "Proposed Reductions." The board adopted the FY2027 budget on June 3, 2026. By August 2026, opening enrollment stood at roughly 14,508 students headed toward an expected 18,737 -- down from about 19,700 enrolled districtwide a few years earlier.
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