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Erin Baldwin Day

40:18 - 40:59

“We've also asked for a pretty robust review of our position with respect to deferred maintenance. And so we're asking for that in terms of roads, our fleet, stormwater, which we heard an update on at one of the more recent IEUC meetings, which was pretty sobering. Also major maintenance and other needs on our facilities and public buildings.”
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Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
July 16, 2026

From the transcript

There will be a competition happening for the first time that is going to engender a pretty significant public dialogue, I am sure. And so we've asked the, the administration to provide us with a couple of scenarios and then other considerations that we might want to take into account when we're thinking specifically about property taxes allocated to education versus municipal service. We've also asked for a pretty robust review of our position with respect to deferred maintenance. And so we're asking for that in terms of roads, our fleet, stormwater, which we heard an update on at one of the more recent IEUC meetings, which was pretty sobering. Also major maintenance and other needs on our facilities and public buildings.

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