Clayton Weingartner
10:11 - 10:36
"we cover all costs. The only thing we can't do is reimburse for any time. For instance, if an operator needs to drop off the sample at FedEx and it takes 30 minutes from the job to a FedEx location, we don't really have any ability to kind of offset those costs, but everything else we pay for."
“we cover all costs. The only thing we can't do is reimburse for any time. For instance, if an operator needs to drop off the sample at FedEx and it takes 30 minutes from the job to a FedEx location, we don't really have any ability to kind of offset those costs, but everything else we pay for.”
- Speaker
- Clayton Weingartner
- Timestamp
- 10:11 – 10:36
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai
- Captured at
- June 17, 2026
From the transcript
And we develop testing plans and schedules that will work along with the utility to limit any type of burden that's placed on the utility. And of course, we cover all costs. The only thing we can't do is reimburse for any time. For instance, if an operator needs to drop off the sample at FedEx and it takes 30 minutes from the job to a FedEx location, we don't really have any ability to kind of offset those costs, but everything else we pay for.
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