Overview
Northwest Arctic Borough’s FY26 line-item budget (Ordinance 25-04) was enacted as amended on May 20, 2025, at an amended appropriation of $31,544,769, up from the pre-amendment appropriation of $27,960,382 — an increase of $3,584,387. The May 20 education amendment itself was $3,648,387.00, funded by $1,537,586.00 in excess revenue plus $2,110,801.00 in fund balance, and it passed by majority (not unanimously). The May-packet proposed General Fund figures — revenues $29,497,968, total expenditures $27,960,382, and a Local Education Contribution of $6,568,263 — are pre-amendment figures only; no revised post-May 20 General Fund exhibit was retrieved, so no revised education total is shown on this page.
Sources: Northwest Arctic Borough, May 2025 Regular Assembly Packet; June 2025 Regular Assembly Packet.
At a glance
Revenue
The only General Fund revenue figure retrieved is the May-packet proposed (pre-amendment) figure below. No revised post-May 20 revenue exhibit was retrieved, so no amended revenue total is shown. The $1,537,586 excess is the May proposed excess of revenues over total expenditures, and it funded part of the May 20 education amendment.
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| General Fund revenues, May PROPOSED (pre-amendment) | $29,497,968 |
| Excess of revenues over total expenditures, May proposed | $1,537,586 |
Spending
The May-packet proposed General Fund exhibit below re-adds exactly to its proposed total; every row is labeled PRE-AMENDMENT. The amended appropriation row is a separate June-packet figure and is not a sum of the May rows — no revised post-amendment exhibit exists on file to decompose it.
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Amended appropriation, Ord 25-04 Sec. 3 (June packet) | $31,544,769 |
| Total Operations, May PROPOSED (pre-amendment) | $9,456,319 |
| Total Other Appropriations, May PROPOSED (pre-amendment) | $9,073,293 |
| Local Education Contribution, May PROPOSED (pre-amendment) | $6,568,263 |
| Water/Sewer Subsidy, May PROPOSED (pre-amendment) | $2,505,030 |
| Total Transfers from General Fund, May PROPOSED (pre-amendment) | $9,430,770 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES, May PROPOSED (pre-amendment) | $27,960,382 |
Disclosure — $64,000 unreconciled: the amended appropriation exceeds the pre-amendment appropriation by $31,544,769 − $27,960,382 = $3,584,387, which is $64,000 less than the $3,648,387.00 May 20 education amendment amount. The packets checked provide no revised exhibit reconciling the two; this page does not invent one. Not the amendment: the April 29 motion for a $3,508,387.00 school land-lease donation was rescinded by its mover and seconder and is not the education amendment.
Sources & notes
- Sources used: Northwest Arctic Borough, May 2025 Regular Assembly Packet (187 pp.) packet (General Fund exhibit p. 64; Ordinance 25-04 pre-amendment Section 3); June 2025 Regular Assembly Packet (231 pp.) packet (Ordinance 25-04 amended Section 3); assembly agendas agendas; ordinance history ordinance history (no separate Ordinance 25-04 entry found there).
- Adoption disclosure: adoption is from the minutes only. April 29, 2025: motion to approve Ordinance 25-04 passed unanimously (roll call). May 20, 2025: motion to enact as amended passed unanimously (roll call); the May 20 education amendment passed by majority, not unanimously. No signed enacted copy exists on file — signature and date blanks are blank in both packets.
- Sum checks: May proposed Total Operations $9,456,319 + Total Other Appropriations $9,073,293 + Total Transfers from General Fund $9,430,770 = $27,960,382; Local Education Contribution $6,568,263 + Water/Sewer Subsidy $2,505,030 = $9,073,293 (Total Other Appropriations); May proposed revenues $29,497,968 − total expenditures $27,960,382 = $1,537,586 excess; education amendment funding $1,537,586 + $2,110,801 = $3,648,387; amended increase $31,544,769 − $27,960,382 = $3,584,387, $64,000 short of the amendment amount (unreconciled, see Spending).
- Separate budget not included: Ordinance 25-05 (FY26 Village Improvement Fund budget), adopted in the same period, is a separate budget and is not part of the Ordinance 25-04 appropriation shown here.
- Identity: this is the Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska. It is not the City of Kotzebue (the borough seat) and not the Northwest Arctic Borough School District.
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- Photo: The city of Kotzebue, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, from the air (July 17, 2013) (Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert, U.S. Coast Guard, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).