Anchorage Assembly member Elvi Gray-Jackson says the city's looking at about a $19 million surplus in leftover money from 2010 that didn't get spent, and she thinks some of the cuts the city made in its 2011 budget are "unfortunate" in light of the surplus.
"It's unfortunate the Samson-Dimond library was closed. It's unfortunate bus service in Mountain View was cut. It's unfortunate that people who work for the municipality have lost their jobs, and now there's a surplus," Gray-Jackson said.
City chief financial officer Lucinda Mahoney said the numbers aren't solid yet. For example, she said, there was a million-dollar downward swing in the surplus from Wednesday to Thursday.
"We're not positioned to make comments on it yet," Mahoney said. "In another couple weeks I'll be comfortable."
Mahoney said there will be a surplus. "The question is how much."
Gray-Jackson said she has worked for the Assembly or been a member of it long enough to know that the numbers gel about now. "I'd be really shocked if it went down substantially," she said.
The Assembly approved the city's $435 million 2011 budget in December.
It will consider revisions, taking into account the surplus, in the first quarter of the year.
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