Doug Schrage
96:43 - 97:28
“We will start another academy in 2027 because we are expecting a large, uh, tranche of firefighters to retire at the end of April, which is when people normally retire. And, uh, I think there's a very large number of people that are eligible to retire.”
- Speaker
- Doug Schrage
- Timestamp
- 96:43 – 97:28
- 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
And then where will, um, and then we'll have another academy that's actually beginning early 2027, correct? We will start another academy in 2027 because we are expecting a large, uh, tranche of firefighters to retire at the end of April, which is when people normally retire. And, uh, I think there's a very large number of people that are eligible to retire. The 2027 academy will be designed to cover those vacancies before the summer overtime season. And then I think my last question, do we have any additional data as far as like voluntary separations in this year, fiscal year '26, and how many of those might have been attributable to the fact that we don't actually have a defined benefit?
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