Dean Paul
12:51 - 13:31
“the way the current drafts before the S2 version are written, the veterans preference is tied solely to veteran status and not connected to Alaska at all. So if in the earlier scenario South Central Foundation, or whatever that company was, South Central Construction, was owned by someone who had served in Virginia Beach and had never been to Alaska before, they would get a preference.”
- Speaker
- Dean Paul
- Timestamp
- 12:51 – 13:31
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- May 27, 2026
From the transcript
Fourth, joint ventures, applications, RFP, and finally reporting and accountability. And I will step through each of those a little bit more slowly. The first is, we talked about in the Assembly Chambers, the way the current drafts before the S2 version are written, the veterans preference is tied solely to veteran status and not connected to Alaska at all. So if in the earlier scenario South Central Foundation, or whatever that company was, South Central Construction, was owned by someone who had served in Virginia Beach and had never been to Alaska before, they would get a preference. Uh, in the RFP context, they would get a preference where no local person gets a preference.
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