Doug Schrage
98:06 - 98:37
"So in other words, of the 31 people that have left the department so far this year, 7 of them did not reach retirement age and volunteered and separated voluntarily. We only have anecdotal data to support the reasoning behind that, whether it was attributable to the lack of a defined benefit, but it is a common thing that we hear from those in our exit interviews."
“So in other words, of the 31 people that have left the department so far this year, 7 of them did not reach retirement age and volunteered and separated voluntarily. We only have anecdotal data to support the reasoning behind that, whether it was attributable to the lack of a defined benefit, but it is a common thing that we hear from those in our exit interviews.”
- Speaker
- Doug Schrage
- Timestamp
- 98:06 – 98:37
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
I could, I could count them up, but I would say the number is probably around 2 dozen dozen that have voluntarily separated. Most of them are retirements. Uh, we have 7 of those were pre-retirement voluntary separations. So in other words, of the 31 people that have left the department so far this year, 7 of them did not reach retirement age and volunteered and separated voluntarily. We only have anecdotal data to support the reasoning behind that, whether it was attributable to the lack of a defined benefit, but it is a common thing that we hear from those in our exit interviews.
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