54:18 - 54:42
"You could attract qualified, or, you know, qualified mayor candidates by paying $140,000 a year, $150,000 a year, or you do it the opposite way where you move to a more part-time, and it's something other people can do besides is, you know, having this as a full-time job."
“You could attract qualified, or, you know, qualified mayor candidates by paying $140,000 a year, $150,000 a year, or you do it the opposite way where you move to a more part-time, and it's something other people can do besides is, you know, having this as a full-time job.”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 54:18 – 54:42
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- North Pole
- Captured at
- September 21, 2026
From the transcript
Anyone else? Please, Councilman Schuster. Yeah, to expand on that, I, I think you have two directions you could go. You could attract qualified, or, you know, qualified mayor candidates by paying $140,000 a year, $150,000 a year, or you do it the opposite way where you move to a more part-time, and it's something other people can do besides is, you know, having this as a full-time job. I think we have great department heads in the city.
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