CHANGE UP – U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Vincent Jansen, left, shakes hands with Cmdr. Joesph Semke as Rear Admiral Megan Dean, Seventeenth District Commander, looks on this morning at Air Station Sitka during the change of command ceremony. Jansen is leaving Sitka after serving as the air station’s commander during what Dean described as the busiest two years of search and rescue operations in the past 20 years at the air station. Semke, who has been operations officer here since 2021, assumes the command in a rare service career path. Jansen is moving to Juneau with his wife, Ellie, and son, Fraser, where he will be chief of incident management at Coast Guard District Seventeen headquarters. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Sitka Schools Bracing For $275K Loss
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
Sitka School District projects a loss of just over a quarter million dollars from Gov. Dunleavy’s line item vetoes in the state budget he signed Tuesday.
The governor vetoed $30 million of funding to Alaskan schools, as well as $100 million for school bond debt reimbursement, among other items. The school bond debt reimbursement veto puts a burden on cities and municipalities, not school districts.
Sitka Cshool Superintendent Mary Wegner told the Sentinel today that district business manager Cassee Olin calculated the potential loss to Sitka schools from Dunlavy’s education cuts will be $275,977. This figure is about one percent of the district’s annual budget.
Dunleavy is holding out hope that his funding cutbacks will be replaced with federal grants.
“The majority of the larger items we will replace with COVID money,” the governor said in a press conference Tuesday. He was referring to the roughly one and a quarter billion dollars coming to the state in the form of federal aid from the CARES Act.
Wegner said that so far it’s uncertain whether or not this will happen.
“For both the school debt bond reimbursement ($100 million) and the $30 million (directly to schools), he said he can replace those funds, so I am holding my breath,” she said.
The Legislature went into recess after passing the budget just over a week ago. Wegner noted that it remains to be seen whether the legislators will go back into session and consider overrides of the vetoes.
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20 YEARS AGO
June 2004
Sitka was hot over the weekend, but how hot was it? The Sitka FAA Flight Service Station recorded a high of 81 degrees Sunday, who broke the previous record for that date, 78 degrees in 1958. It was 81 on Saturday, too, but the record for that date was 85 degrees, also set in 1958.
50 YEARS AGO
June 1974
Miss Margaret Fedoroff, Sitka, has been graduated with high honors from Michigan State University, where she received a bachelor degree in special education. She is the daughter of Mrs. Jack Calvin of Sitka and George Fedoroff of Washington, D.C. .... David Bickar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bickar, has been designated a Kroll Scholar next year at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Sitka’s annual Sitka Sportsman’s Association Salmon Derby will be launched at 8 a.m. Saturday for two weekends of sport fishing. ... Thousands of dollars in prizes, including a $2,000 first prize, will be given away. Last year some 200 fish were turned in, with Nick Pelayo’s 64-pound, 6 ounce, salmon being the winner.
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