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Doug Schoessler

56:01 - 56:38

"even in our loans when we had to present the financials, our wastewater, they said you got to finish that rate study or we're not repaying all your grant that we gave you. So we are working to get that done. We can take those two projects when it's tied together and bring that back to you. And like I said, I'd love to have it by the end of the year, but we're kind of— there's some things that have really major data issues that we've needed to work through, and both finance and ourselves are working through that to get our consultant those— that information."

“even in our loans when we had to present the financials, our wastewater, they said you got to finish that rate study or we're not repaying all your grant that we gave you. So we are working to get that done. We can take those two projects when it's tied together and bring that back to you. And like I said, I'd love to have it by the end of the year, but we're kind of— there's some things that have really major data issues that we've needed to work through, and both finance and ourselves are working through that to get our consultant those— that information.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Seward
Captured at
October 27, 2026

From the transcript

They kind of tread there. They both do pretty good, but even in our loans when we had to present the financials, our wastewater, they said you got to finish that rate study or we're not repaying all your grant that we gave you. So we are working to get that done. We can take those two projects when it's tied together and bring that back to you. And like I said, I'd love to have it by the end of the year, but we're kind of— there's some things that have really major data issues that we've needed to work through, and both finance and ourselves are working through that to get our consultant those— that information.

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