Matthew Kissinger
1:30 - 1:59
“If you're moving towards milestones and you're going to penalize your developer and they miss a milestone and you can just take everything away from them and they can lose everything, they will put nothing into it. And this is a $44 billion project that we're building. We need to put the very best work going into it. And that's why we're— there were these paid clawbacks with respect to our ability to push the developer out.”
- Speaker
- Matthew Kissinger
- Timestamp
- 1:30 – 1:59
- Transcript
- Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
From the transcript
If you're moving towards milestones and you're going to penalize your developer and they miss a milestone and you can just take everything away from them and they can lose everything, they will put nothing into it. And this is a $44 billion project that we're building. We need to put the very best work going into it. And that's why we're— there were these paid clawbacks with respect to our ability to push the developer out. Again, that was not in the main agreement.
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