The Fairbanks City Council advanced an ordinance that would award the Fairbanks Firefighters Union’s arbitrated contract, but no funding mechanism has been identified.
When the council met Monday night at City Hall, it also advanced an ordinance comprising the first budget amendments of the year.
Fairbanks Chief Financial Officer Carmen Randle told the council this year’s budget is “tighter than tight” and the latest word from Juneau is the city would receive a little more than $505,000 from state revenue sharing, which is $295,000 less than was previously expected.