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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Terry Haines “We'd be slowly winnowing down to 28, down to 10, down to 5, down to 3, and figuring out who we might want to bring here for an interview, which all costs money and takes time. That's not the position we're in. We're in a very, very enviable position.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Work Session · Oct 29, 2026

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Terry Haines “I think it, it might be wise for us in general to have a probationary or a clause like this in our contracts as a default going forward, given our experience”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Work Session · Oct 29, 2026

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Terry Haines “Do we have consensus to move forward on the, uh, as sketched out by Mr. Caciola, for reviewing our— the applications before the 10th? And then at the meeting on the 10th, we will decide whether or not we want to bring people forward for interviews, or whether we might want to offer the job to Mr. Putney. And then we will be directing staff to be ready for the eventuality that we offer the job to Mr. Putney, just so they're prepared without prejudging that.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Work Session · Oct 29, 2026

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Terry Haines “I would suggest we do move forward as suggested, that we go through all of the, the manager's, um, applications before November 10th, and then on November 10th make that decision as to whether we want to bring more— some of these applicants forward for an interview, but with the understanding given to staff that we may just choose Mr. Putney as the obviously best qualified candidate.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Work Session · Oct 29, 2026

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Djuna Davidson “I want to acknowledge that we do have two new council members who have not been with us as we have received the applications, which does mean it is extra work for the two of you to review those 28 applications before November 10th, but that is still a period of time for you to review those applications.”

Kodiak: October 29, 2026, Work Session · Oct 29, 2026

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Kat Sorensen “On the designs that we initially received, there was designs for step-down like bleacher seating that is in an area separate than what it's referred to, than what Council Member Calhoon referred to. It was part of like the broader boardwalk aspect. And so as we've pared that down, that stadium, like that cool stadium diagram is It's still in the long-term plan, but we pared that down to focus on the building and not do the boardwalk and the buildings there.”

Seward: City Council Work Session 10/29/2026 · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“The only other option that we have is a brand new wastewater plant. We would have to meet water quality standards at end of pipe, and then we can dump that onto the ground, we can inject it into the ground, we can put it anywhere because basically it's just clean, clean, clean water.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“The outfall project is the focus that we're trying to look at, all maintaining everything else.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“$40 Million, we'll go with something that's going to cost us about $3.5 million, is what we found.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“We went with RESPEC in a different avenue, found another location in the Tanana that's just south of Petro Star.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“Arguments were made with the state to try to use our braid as a conveyance channel, basically saying that it's still— even when it's dry, our waste stream is still making it to the bigger part of the Tanana River. Uh, they did not like that. This has been going on for 13, 14 years now. And they've had enough.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“We just need to find the funding for this outfall.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“EC seems fond of this idea that there's enough flow that we can have a proper mixing zone.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“Tried different engineering methods to find a new solution to that, going further out into the Tanana, different braids. Problem with that is we still have to get access to it for sampling.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“this, this outfall sludge removal has, has moved itself to the top of the utility's overall projects that has to be taken care of, um, immediately. We don't have a choice on the timetable on that.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“It's just finding $3.5 million for that project now. And so that's hopefully something to find this, this coming year, if not getting, uh, loans onto next year's, uh, ballot.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“That's something that, uh, we have 3 and a half years now to get this done, but we're working on that and, and keep trucking down the road.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“It's probably not going to happen this summer. That was the hopes and dreams, but it's looking like it's going to be 2028 for— but it's going to have to be done.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“So in 2000— or 2025, they gave us 5 years to fix it, or this notice of violation is not just a notice of violation that's on a piece of paper, that goes into the fine stage, and that's daily. And we're not shutting the wastewater treatment plant down. It's going to be hard to get everybody to stop flushing the toilet.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026

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Paul Trissel

“Sewer— the projects that we have going on is, uh, in, uh, 2024, 2025. What year are we in? 2025, Um, engineers that the city had, uh, utilized in order to find a solution to the outfall issue that the city has a notice of violation for— the river went dry and it's moving south. And so our braid of the Tanana, which we dump our effluent from the wastewater treatment plant into, no longer has flow from the Tanana. Not reliably.”

North Pole: Budget Work Session - Utilities, Public Works, Water & Sewer, and Building Department Budget · Oct 29, 2026