Jody Tow
15:17 - 15:35
“operations is 10 mils in, in 2026, and then the debt service, which is the 0.57 plus the 0.36, is, um, $1.93 mils.”
- Speaker
- Jody Tow
- Timestamp
- 15:17 – 15:35
- Transcript
- Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- April 30, 2026
From the transcript
So operations is 10 mils in, in 2026, and then the debt service, which is the 0.57 plus the 0.36, is, um, $1.93 mils.
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