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William Falsey
10:35 - 11:06
"I'll have a deputy. I did not have a deputy in the austerity times of 2016, 2017 to 2020. So in some ways, I think the workload just becomes much more manageable as a result of having somebody else that can put their laboring or put their shoulder to the laboring oar."
“I'll have a deputy. I did not have a deputy in the austerity times of 2016, 2017 to 2020. So in some ways, I think the workload just becomes much more manageable as a result of having somebody else that can put their laboring or put their shoulder to the laboring oar.”
- Speaker
- William Falsey
- Timestamp
- 10:35 – 11:06
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 1, 2026
From the transcript
And in comparing that constellation to this constellation, the difference is that I would lose maintenance operations, project management and engineering, and traffic engineering, but I'd pick up parks and libraries. And I'm actually pretty excited to pick up parks and libraries. The other main difference is I'll have a deputy. I did not have a deputy in the austerity times of 2016, 2017 to 2020. So in some ways, I think the workload just becomes much more manageable as a result of having somebody else that can put their laboring or put their shoulder to the laboring oar.
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