Daniel Byrd
14:21 - 14:55
“we got to tear down the tower out there, and there's no guarantee that the tower is going to be able to be reassembled after the site work is done. So I'm guessing that we're going to lose our training tower out there, and the replacement cost is about $400,000 to $600,000 for new training facility.”
- Speaker
- Daniel Byrd
- Timestamp
- 14:21 – 14:55
- Transcript
- Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
At that spot for right now until such a time down the road that the city can acquire the proper funding to give us a proper training facility. You know, because we got to tear down the tower out there, and there's no guarantee that the tower is going to be able to be reassembled after the site work is done. So I'm guessing that we're going to lose our training tower out there, and the replacement cost is about $400,000 to $600,000 for new training facility. So this is going to have to go on a, on a capital project list. And we've had these requests into the city in years past, you know, when different managers were in the assembly, in different assemblies.
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