0:52
Steve Rieger
34:07 - 35:00
“did it appear to you that the CPIs that were— the CPI numbers that you just read off we're in the right ballpark. So we just, we'd just be, you know, tidying up a number for the sake of tidying it up rather than that it would make a material difference.”
- Speaker
- Steve Rieger
- Timestamp
- 34:07 – 35:00
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- September 3, 2026
From the transcript
When you looked at the actual increases that went for in this whole stack of backup data, did it appear to you that the CPIs that were— the CPI numbers that you just read off we're in the right ballpark. So we just, we'd just be, you know, tidying up a number for the sake of tidying it up rather than that it would make a material difference. In some ways, yeah. When you look at, if you look at 2025, it looks like, you know, within the city predominantly folks got a 1.5 with the exception of APD got 3.3 and 3.5. And in 2025, the CPIU was 2.9.
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