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Larry Terch

30:04 - 30:13

"So I don't know if the Director of City Service position needs to remain as it has been in the past."

“So I don't know if the Director of City Service position needs to remain as it has been in the past.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
North Pole
Captured at
October 27, 2026

From the transcript

My 2 cents. Oh, I appreciate that. So we have right now a Utility Supervisor that's been here 24 years and a Public Works Supervisor that's been here 12. If they don't know the tasks that they need to take care of on the day-to-day and the year-to-year, and they're needing a supervisor to inform them as to what they need to do on the day-to-day, we have bigger problems. So I don't know if the Director of City Service position needs to remain as it has been in the past.

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