Suzanne LaFrance
4:51 - 5:24
"it's the largest settlement in the municipality's history. Every single dollar of this funding will go directly toward construction costs for the Port of Alaska modernization program."
“it's the largest settlement in the municipality's history. Every single dollar of this funding will go directly toward construction costs for the Port of Alaska modernization program.”
- Speaker
- Suzanne LaFrance
- Timestamp
- 4:51 – 5:24
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- July 7, 2026
From the transcript
And it's the largest settlement in the municipality's history. Every single dollar of this funding will go directly toward construction costs for the Port of Alaska modernization program. This is a massive victory, and it comes at a moment of tremendous progress. Just last week, we celebrated a major step in the construction of a new Terminal 1. Standing together to sign one of the massive steel piles that construction crews are driving into Cook Inlet.
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