Ole Larson
49:08 - 49:36
"So what we're working on, on the, uh, $400 million that we have out there, is when something fails, we fix it. But we don't do any preventive maintenance at all because, uh, we haven't been able to get a— or we haven't developed a, a bond for school maintenance. Is that what I'm seeing here?"
“So what we're working on, on the, uh, $400 million that we have out there, is when something fails, we fix it. But we don't do any preventive maintenance at all because, uh, we haven't been able to get a— or we haven't developed a, a bond for school maintenance. Is that what I'm seeing here?”
- Speaker
- Ole Larson
- Timestamp
- 49:08 – 49:36
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Mat-Su Borough
- Captured at
- August 26, 2026
From the transcript
The reason I'm saying that is, is not most of this 4.4 million upgrades emergency upgrades, whereas they will, you know, virtually, uh, like boilers and septic systems and HVAC and elevators were failing And that's what I'd like to see us get ahead of instead of— and same with the boiler replacements on the $6.1 million. The access roads, I think, was for the new schools, and the water system replacement is also failed system. So what we're working on, on the, uh, $400 million that we have out there, is when something fails, we fix it. But we don't do any preventive maintenance at all because, uh, we haven't been able to get a— or we haven't developed a, a bond for school maintenance. Is that what I'm seeing here?
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