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Malena Halverson-Mays

21:49 - 22:00

“we started this conversation either at the 50th percentile or the 60th percentile, and my recommendations are built on the average.”
Speaker
Malena Halverson-Mays
Community
Alaska News
Location
Kodiak
Captured at
November 4, 2026

From the transcript

And then you do have the— you know, it's on the table to lag the market. If you lag the market, you will continue to have the turnover. You will continue to be paying out dollars, you know, in some of those costs. And that certainly is not recommended. So when we put together the recommendations, we started this conversation either at the 50th percentile or the 60th percentile, and my recommendations are built on the average.

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