Anchorage's Stash of Capital Budget Dollars

Andrea Gusty's exclusive weekly interview with Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan.

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By Andrea Gusty

Story Created: May 19, 2011 at 10:55 AM AKDT

Story Updated: Aug 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM AKDT

Capital budget

  • Benefits for Anchorage
  • Port of Anchorage; moving forward and on track
  • 2012 construction season on north side of port
  • Design and alternative version to scale back the project
  • Complete extension, repairs and replacement of pilings
  • 20-25 years of additional support, but is just a “short-term” solution
  • Mayor Sullivan calls Port of Anchorage “lifeblood of the state” for both military and economy

Denali - The Alaska Gas Pipeline not moving forward

  • TransCanada, state backing
  • Combining gas and oil
  • Denali building; jobs and replacing it
  • BP and ConocoPhillips jobs, redistribution

Highway-2-Highway; Parnell administration and position

Consolidation and efficiencies 

  • Outsourcing and private solutions to shrink municipal costs
  • Fleet maintenance, parks and rec and school district
  • Responses to requests for proposal (RFPs) 
  • “Millions in savings” for efficiencies
  • Unions and non-union workers

Muni bike route map; best routes for cyclist to get around town safely

City clean-up thank you

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