Doug Schoessler
54:53 - 55:34
"We were right to council to pass the rate study, and this is the same one we're working on. It got— that was right when, uh, I believe Jeanette just started that month, wasn't comfortable with it, and it never came back. And then COVID hit and everything is just kind of fallen back. But we have done some cost of living type of raises in the rates, but not a rate study to show where we should be."
“We were right to council to pass the rate study, and this is the same one we're working on. It got— that was right when, uh, I believe Jeanette just started that month, wasn't comfortable with it, and it never came back. And then COVID hit and everything is just kind of fallen back. But we have done some cost of living type of raises in the rates, but not a rate study to show where we should be.”
- Speaker
- Doug Schoessler
- Timestamp
- 54:53 – 55:34
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Seward
- Captured at
- October 27, 2026
From the transcript
We were right to council to pass the rate study, and this is the same one we're working on. It got— that was right when, uh, I believe Jeanette just started that month, wasn't comfortable with it, and it never came back. And then COVID hit and everything is just kind of fallen back. But we have done some cost of living type of raises in the rates, but not a rate study to show where we should be. I think the biggest change we'll see is, is on that, is working through the complicated rates that we have now for trying to determine how many units are in a building or where they're at.
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