Josiah Patkotak
161:47 - 162:47
“what I'm proposing is, versus fixing all the different variables at the tax structure level without the information from the inputs on how that tax structure looks, what I'm saying is I think it'd be more effective to allow that negotiation to happen between the borough and the producer”
- Speaker
- Josiah Patkotak
- Timestamp
- 161:47 – 162:47
- Transcript
- House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- May 29, 2026
From the transcript
And then it's left to decide what does that framework look like. And then you back that up against the situation that you all are in as far as the timeline in which, uh, the rest of the recipients of the gas up and down the pipeline need that relief for gas. And what I'm proposing is, versus fixing all the different variables at the tax structure level without the information from the inputs on how that tax structure looks, what I'm saying is I think it'd be more effective to allow that negotiation to happen between the borough and the producer so that we can get to that, you know, the trading of information, get to a— oh, we understand a lot more now. Maybe we need to have a dollar value equivalent of a mill rate of 6, 8, 10, I don't know. And those are things that are allowed under 2941.
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