ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Mayor Suzanne LaFrance is expected to share her approved Anchorage alcohol tax spending plan next week.

This year, LaFrance’s plan includes reducing the spending plan from about $21 million to about $15 million, according to documents provided by the city of Anchorage.

The largest of these cuts will impact grant funding to help reduce child abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence. In the currently proposed plan — which was shared on Oct. 3 — cuts to those services would amount to about $5.4 million.

The proposed budget also includes eliminating all funding for Anchorage Children’s Trust, Early Education Grants, Early Literacy Program operations and Best Beginnings.

In city documents provided to Alaska News Source, alcohol tax spending that will go toward homelessness will drop from $10,224,899 this year to $9,978,949 in 2025.

The current proposal also makes the first responders a roughly $1.5 million boost, nearly doubling their current budget.

The Alaska News Source reached out to the LaFrance Administration for an interview Friday, but a spokesperson for the mayor said no one was available for an interview.

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