
Representative · Alaska State House · District 11
10 articles · 20 transcripts
“Co-chair Foster, I move SB 2134-LS0254/T out of committee with individual recommendations and attached fiscal notes. House Finance Committee authorizes legislative legal to make any technical and conforming changes as necessary.”
“when I think about Phase 1 of this project, the biggest part of Phase 1 is to make sure we're delivering gas to Alaskans, whether it's in Fairbanks or Southcentral, um, Kenai. Ultimately, we are trying to create a system to deliver energy, and that's for homes but industry as well.”
“there are other programs out there to help our rural communities with things like this that they can use as their match to then go compete for the fire station money.”
“I think that when we're putting together this type of a program where we're creating a paid parental leave benefit, we want to do so while protecting the viability of small employers seasonal employers, rural businesses, and employers with limited payroll capacity.”
“this bill doesn't really take care of the problem of treating our teachers like ad hoc employees on these year after year, single year contracts. I hope that at some point in the future we'll be able to solve that problem.”
“This includes not just their regular ADM students, but it also includes the intensive needs students as part of that 3-year averaging.”
“I saw that the projections on the gas line is somewhere in the realm of $700 million of revenue that would be forecasted for the line on a year-after basis.”
“in the bill, we are specifically relying on the department to set the standards and criteria, and we just— I don't want to use the word vaguely, but we just say nationally recognized organization, and to me that's pretty vague.”
“Is this just giving the legislature the ability to establish a dedicated fund, but it's at our discretion to do so? Because I don't see that it's asking the voters to say we shall create a specific fund for this purpose. It's just giving the authority to the legislature to create a dedicated fund.”
“I see the fiscal note, I read the fiscal note, it's It looks like it is an additional $113 million. I know we have declining enrollment, so when I see an equivalent of about a $450 BSA increase, it makes me wonder exactly how that modeling is actually being done.”