Erin Baldwin Day
35:33 - 36:43
“I'm curious about how this service change impacts financial feasibility of this project, if at all, for True North. It sounds like, based on the feasibility study, that those, the mobile services were actually the least financially viable or stable in the long haul, and there were some questions about whether or not that, that particular line of service could even be sustained after the first 2 years of operation if additional grant funds were not made available.”
- Speaker
- Erin Baldwin Day
- Timestamp
- 35:33 – 36:43
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
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From the transcript
So I'm curious about the— I'm curious about how this service change impacts financial feasibility of this project, if at all, for True North. It sounds like, based on the feasibility study, that those, the mobile services were actually the least financially viable or stable in the long haul, and there were some questions about whether or not that, that particular line of service could even be sustained after the first 2 years of operation if additional grant funds were not made available. And so I just want to be sure that as we're making, as we're considering this investment, that we are tracking with sustainability and that we're still meeting the need of our community even with this different sort of model. I would love for you or for— I've just forgotten his last name, the gentleman from True North who's on the phone to speak to that. Yeah, Carl.
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