Erin Baldwin Day
105:53 - 106:05
“Just starts to like feel a little tight. What would that look like in terms of resourcing to do a third overlapping academy in a single year?”
- Speaker
- Erin Baldwin Day
- Timestamp
- 105:53 – 106:05
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
It's a moving target. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I'm not treating that as a fixed number, but just holding that up alongside sort of the pattern we've seen of both retirement and then, you know, separation, pre-retirement separations. Just starts to like feel a little tight. What would that look like in terms of resourcing to do a third overlapping academy in a single year?
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