{"id":4184,"date":"2016-09-05T08:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/remote-state-legislative-offices-close-on-friday-afternoons\/"},"modified":"2016-09-05T08:01:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:01:32","slug":"remote-state-legislative-offices-close-on-friday-afternoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/remote-state-legislative-offices-close-on-friday-afternoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote state legislative offices close on Friday afternoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 The state\u2019s 22 Legislative Information Offices will now be closed on Friday afternoons as a cost-cutting measure when the Legislature is not in session.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau radio station KTOO reported the closing of the offices will save nearly $300,000. The closures began this Friday after the Legislature\u2019s in-house administrative council voted 9-1 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members in the remote offices facilitate teleconferencing so residents can participate in legislative meetings. They also serve as a contact for state government and sometimes even process applications for the state\u2019s oil wealth fund checks.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts come as the state looks for ways to close a multibillion-dollar budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>One lawmaker, Kodiak Republican state Sen. Gary Stevens, says they could look at closing the offices entirely on Fridays if this doesn\u2019t do enough to address budgetary concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 The state\u2019s 22 Legislative Information Offices will now be closed on Friday afternoons as a cost-cutting measure when the Legislature is not in session. Juneau radio station KTOO reported the closing of the offices will save nearly $300,000. The closures began this Friday after the Legislature\u2019s in-house administrative council voted 9-1 on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}