Harbormaster Tony (City of Seward)
16:36 - 16:46
“After COVID, we skipped a few years on our inspections, and so we've had a lot of expenses going out and repairing some of these items on those machines.”
- Speaker
- Harbormaster Tony (City of Seward)
- Timestamp
- 16:36 – 16:46
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Seward
- Captured at
- October 28, 2026
From the transcript
But at some point, there's a break there where you're just going too long and you don't want something catastrophic to happen with that machine, but recognize that we don't want to waste money as well either. So, so we're trying to keep up with that, and we're playing catch-up on some of that maintenance. After COVID, we skipped a few years on our inspections, and so we've had a lot of expenses going out and repairing some of these items on those machines.
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