Doug Schoessler
54:32 - 54:53
“we have a big rate study going for that. We're hoping to have it by the end of the year for water and sewer rates and how to get there and, and what that needs to be to happen. We haven't had a rate study since 1993. This came up, this came up 2020, 2021, maybe it's 2022.”
- Speaker
- Doug Schoessler
- Timestamp
- 54:32 – 54:53
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Seward
- Captured at
- October 27, 2026
From the transcript
But when there's a project or any type of a dig or something they've got to do, they all get together and make it happen. So the water and sewer, I think you'll see in— right now we have a big rate study going for that. We're hoping to have it by the end of the year for water and sewer rates and how to get there and, and what that needs to be to happen. We haven't had a rate study since 1993. This came up, this came up 2020, 2021, maybe it's 2022.
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