David Berg
16:41 - 16:59
“staff determined the price tag could be over $1 million for the new training tower and site improvements, as you'll see in Aaron's presentation later on. Less, less expensive options may exist, and we're certainly willing to look at those.”
- Speaker
- David Berg
- Timestamp
- 16:41 – 16:59
- Transcript
- Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
And to build upon what Dan has talked about, our fire chief, we, you know, unfortunately the move to combine props into the Station 1 build was not done at the time we built the fire station, you know, in 2011. There was money left over from that. Unfortunately, it was redirected to other borough projects at the time. So we've looked at other locations and, and, and our— and the staff determined the price tag could be over $1 million for the new training tower and site improvements, as you'll see in Aaron's presentation later on. Less, less expensive options may exist, and we're certainly willing to look at those.
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