FY27 Budget Development

The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s overall purpose is to help beneficiaries thrive in their communities and avoid long-term institutionalization. One of the duties of the Trust is to develop a budget for Trust spending and recommendations for how the state will fund a comprehensive, integrated mental health program.

This page contains materials intended to inform Trust staff, trustees, and stakeholders in the FY27 budget development process.

As the Trust uses a two-year budgeting cycle, in August 2024 trustees adopted a FY26/27 budget.  As FY27 represents the second year in that two-year budget cycle, trustees considered revisions to the "placeholder" FY27 budget that was adopted in 2024. The board of trustees finalized and approved the Trust's FY27 budget in August 2025, and the budget was then transmitted to the Governor and Legislature in September 2025 by the deadline defined in Alaska Statute.