James Valentine
50:24 - 51:09
“I look at this number, you know, $1.1 million, that is chump change compared to some of the numbers that we've been talking about for so many projects coming up that are going to these big capital lists, right?”
- Speaker
- James Valentine
- Timestamp
- 50:24 – 51:09
- Transcript
- Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
Much like anything else. This is— and I look at this number, you know, $1.1 million, that is chump change compared to some of the numbers that we've been talking about for so many projects coming up that are going to these big capital lists, right? And to me, if the community wants this, which, yeah, I mean, they kind of— I mean, it sounds like there are people talking about it that they agree that this is something that the community wants as well. I don't see why another part to this is kind of annoys me is that we just recently just lost money too from the senior sales tax exemption going away. Our sales tax is not going up, so we don't have money in the borough coming in that's generating enough money to really be able to throw it at you.
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