Doug Schrage
100:22 - 100:49
"We think that this next year is the year."
“We think that this next year is the year.”
- Speaker
- Doug Schrage
- Timestamp
- 100:22 – 100:49
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
We think that this next year is the year. Okay, thanks. And I also kind of noticed that that will be 20 years since we changed our retirement system. And I can't help but wonder if these two things are related. I might add that a conversation we have going forward— through the chair, by the way, I'm sorry— is what does retirement look like for a Tier 4 retiree?
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