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Daniel McKenna-Foster
96:03 - 96:23
“Treat capital projects as investments to spur other investments in the surrounding area... find out a way to off-ramp projects. Sometimes we have projects that end up on projects list for years and years.”
- Speaker
- Daniel McKenna-Foster
- Timestamp
- 96:03 – 96:23
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 19, 2026
From the transcript
Treat capital projects as investments to spur other investments in the surrounding area. You know, find out a way to off-ramp projects. Sometimes we have projects that end up on projects list for years and years. And the Muni doesn't have a clear way of sort of letting those go, even if there might be some invested time in that. But there's sort of a sunk cost fallacy related to that.
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