Peter, That is always the first answer we here from any state, city, or borough politician when we say we need to cut expenses. The same ole same ole. And that is exactly what is wrong with all these politicians in charge of it. They can only do what they learn from the past politicians actions to get the public behind them. Look what the Governor did last fall he cut our road maintenance budget and here in Fairbanks we didn't have much snow, the state held back from removing it just enough to make us scream where are they? To show you how broken the budget system is state wide we were all wondering in the spring, Why on earth is there all these graders out there removing snow form the road not once but twice in a week that isn't there!! 
We watch the graders scraping the pavement with sparks flying because there wasn't any snow. Oh by the way the head of DOT lost his job in the spring and the Governor spent a couple million on gas in the fall. This Gov. spent more than he cut lat fall