Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Juneau Senator Jesse Kiehl is serving on the Fiscal Policy Working Group that is coming up with recommendations for the Legislature to consider when it convenes its third special session on August 16.
Governor Dunleavy postponed the session s start from August 2 when all four caucuses requested a delay to in order to allow more time to form recommendations.
Kiehl believes the group will be ready in time. He said he appreciated the Governor making the change in his special session call. This group is working hard and we re going to get something out I m pretty confident before that August 16 special session begins.
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Kevin McCabe (R – Big Lake)
It is telling that none of the House or Senate finance committee co-chairs are part of the group. The next meeting is this Wednesday at 2 pm at the Anchorage LIO. Don’t hold your breath for a comprehensive plan. There has been several of these groups over the decades. Zero has changed. There are three levers: Permanent Fund, spending, revenues. That’s it. A comprehensive plan will require pulling a bit on all three, which is unlikely. And even if they manage to do the impossible, whatever results from the group will still need to go through the legislative process. Which means a bill that goes to at the very least the finance committees and then the floor. The next special session is set to start in just over three weeks. But according to many at the meeting, it won’t begin until the group is finished. As I said last week, most legislators do not want to go back to Juneau in August. My bet is it gets pushed back to September. In addition to the fi