Robert Yundt
17:29 - 17:57
“we are nowhere near ready to even consider that right now. So it needs to stand on its own merit in a year or 2 years or 4 years or possibly never. But we got to finish the financial modeling. We cannot— I don't think we should be considering jeopardizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity over something that we haven't even finished the committee process on.”
- Speaker
- Robert Yundt
- Timestamp
- 17:29 – 17:57
- Transcript
- Alaska Legislature: SMIN-20260617-1630
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
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From the transcript
I'm not a fan of one person having an advantage over the others in the same industry. But again, we are nowhere near ready to even consider that right now. So it needs to stand on its own merit in a year or 2 years or 4 years or possibly never. But we got to finish the financial modeling. We cannot— I don't think we should be considering jeopardizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity over something that we haven't even finished the committee process on.
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