Kevin Johnson
86:29 - 87:11
"The delay of fully funding these projects would be a— would mean an increase in cost. As we all know, the longer you wait to fund a project and push it down the road, the more those projects increase in cost. So that is going to be an undue burden for community because not only does that mean that the project price is going to increase in general, it means that the community's max burden is going to increase unnecessarily. So again, I request that everybody in the community please comment on the STIP and let the state know that these projects are ready to roll, coming up in just a couple of months."
“The delay of fully funding these projects would be a— would mean an increase in cost. As we all know, the longer you wait to fund a project and push it down the road, the more those projects increase in cost. So that is going to be an undue burden for community because not only does that mean that the project price is going to increase in general, it means that the community's max burden is going to increase unnecessarily. So again, I request that everybody in the community please comment on the STIP and let the state know that these projects are ready to roll, coming up in just a couple of months.”
- Speaker
- Kevin Johnson
- Timestamp
- 86:29 – 87:11
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
So with both of those projects being shovel-ready, we are ready to begin those projects in spring 2027. The delay of fully funding these projects would be a— would mean an increase in cost. As we all know, the longer you wait to fund a project and push it down the road, the more those projects increase in cost. So that is going to be an undue burden for community because not only does that mean that the project price is going to increase in general, it means that the community's max burden is going to increase unnecessarily. So again, I request that everybody in the community please comment on the STIP and let the state know that these projects are ready to roll, coming up in just a couple of months.
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