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Speaker 2:And good morning, Juno, KINY ninety four point nine FM and always 800. It is Wednesday problem corner. I'm Justin Miller hanging out with y'all from the Goldblood Tram studio. And yet again, I have Devin Stickler hanging out with me for Wednesday problem corner today.
Speaker 3:Good morning. Good
Speaker 2:Good morning, Devin. It's a beautiful sunny day outside.
Speaker 3:A beautiful sunny October 1.
Speaker 2:I know, and I woke up this morning, there's frost in the car, you know the temps are changing and getting colder outside.
Speaker 3:I do hate going out to start my truck. I hate having to think about that.
Speaker 2:I feel really bad for my partner, Crystal, because she's got no heat in her car at the moment. No. I know her, I think her heat blower motor is out, so definitely gotta find the right person to help us out with that.
Speaker 3:Maybe there's even someone out there.
Speaker 2:Maybe, so give
Speaker 4:me call.
Speaker 3:Take a recommendation. If
Speaker 2:you own a little shop and know how to fix a motor blower motor and a 2006 Toyota Corolla, give me a call and maybe we can maybe
Speaker 5:we can link something We
Speaker 2:already got a phone call, so let's jump right
Speaker 5:to it.
Speaker 2:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Hey. Good morning. How are doing?
Speaker 2:Doing good. How are you?
Speaker 6:Good. Good. Hey. I just have a couple questions.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Go for it.
Speaker 6:What is happening with the the the gondola project? And the other question is, how did that happen that the PFD came out with only a thousand dollars per person this year? I mean, how did how did that work?
Speaker 2:Well, I think the for the PFD answer, I, from what I gathered was to help our state's debt to kinda mitigate some of that too. So they pulled a little bit from the PFD this year to kinda help some of our state's debt out. As far
Speaker 5:as the gondola project, the last update I was given by Eagle Crest was that they are working on building the road up the mound where that gondola
Speaker 2:is gonna be placed. So there is steps being made as far as the placement of the gondola up at Eagle Crest.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And it's kind
Speaker 6:of interesting. Is a on that? There's something you got a projected cost on on that project?
Speaker 2:Just the overall number. It was like 10,000,000, I think, that was thrown in by Gold Belt for that project, but I don't know the overall overall cost that the amount of money that's gonna take to build it and
Speaker 3:Right. Plus the road and everything. Think that that was just the cost to actually
Speaker 2:To
Speaker 3:get Get the gondola Mhmm. Here. Is that correct? That's what I was understanding. So yeah, I have not heard an overall cost.
Speaker 3:I would be really really curious to know that between the cost of the gondola, the price of getting it up and running. I mean, would love to
Speaker 5:know those
Speaker 3:costs. We're gonna have to
Speaker 6:have some staff look into that a little bit before they went ahead and bought what they spent so far?
Speaker 3:That is a great question.
Speaker 2:I believe they did look into the cost of it a little bit, but as far as my knowledge, I'm not too up to date with all the gondola project stuff, but hopefully soon like, we had Craig Simmons, the GM, on Capital Chat not that long ago, and he just kinda updated us about the road being built up there for the gondola placement, but not as far as the overall cost. But I'm sure we'll be hearing from Craig very, very soon here on the airwaves and and give us an update as far as where we're at with that project.
Speaker 6:Well, speaking of that, how did Craig get involved in this? How did he get appointed to to be the head honcho?
Speaker 2:Just as he was hired for the general manager spot, and, obviously, that comes with all the responsibilities of doing that. So I I know he's coming from a different ski area and coming to Juneau and having to tackle that big project. I know it's pretty daunting as far as a new general manager goes, but, yeah, I was kinda just handed off onto him as being the new general manager.
Speaker 7:Well, I I was just
Speaker 6:wondering what what experience does he have to do something like this?
Speaker 2:I know he's worked in the ski industry for many, many years. He worked in many different ski areas and seen other different operations goes, but I don't know Craig off that closely, so I don't know too much about his experience. I have chatted with him a couple times, but I'm sure I'll learn a lot more about him this coming winter.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Well, I I know who he is, but I didn't realize that he had an experience in skiing or that industry, but I just overall, I just wondered how how he got appointed to that job. Is that the city assembly gave him that job, or how did that work?
Speaker 2:I think that my I think the position was open, and he either applied for it to try to find this change of venue or change of jobs for him, but I cannot speak on how that happened with get Craig getting hired for Eagle Crest.
Speaker 6:K. Yeah. It just seems like, to me, another shitty deal that we, the people, didn't have its opportunity to vote on. It's somebody put him in that position.
Speaker 8:Mhmm.
Speaker 6:And and it didn't. His all of sudden, his name came up that he was a general manager, and it wasn't put out ahead of time that that job was even available.
Speaker 2:Right. I'm not yeah. I'm I'm kinda stumped on that answer right now, so I wish I had a better answer to give you on that, but maybe we'll find find out the more we bring Craig on the radio waves.
Speaker 6:Okay. Okay. Well, thank you much. Have a good day.
Speaker 2:Thank you. You too
Speaker 6:for calling. Wednesday. Bye.
Speaker 2:Alright, bye bye. Yes, I know the gondola project is definitely a huge project.
Speaker 3:A topic. A topic
Speaker 2:right And the project goes on, we'll learn more about it. Like I have a slight hand with Eagle Crest being a part time instructor up there, but still I'm and since I'm not full time up there anymore, I don't know all the ins and outs. I just go up there, teach our kids and people how to ski or snowboard.
Speaker 6:Super fun.
Speaker 3:And I did say that they're gonna get like a good raise with ski instructors
Speaker 2:All all across the map.
Speaker 3:All across what I saw that ski instructors are gonna be getting like kind of the biggest jump in in pay, which I mean, hey.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Good on you. But then you're officially a city employee and you have to follow the city guidelines as being a city employee. So things are gonna be changing as far as being an Eagle Crest employee this coming winter from what I've gathered. We do have a couple of calls on the line.
Speaker 2:Let's get them on. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 9:I think the gentleman that was just on is confused a little bit. There's the general manager of Eagle Crest. Right.
Speaker 6:That is Craig.
Speaker 9:Then there's also Craig who is on a special project on the gondola and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:I wonder if that's what he's getting confused on.
Speaker 9:I think he's very confused in those two aspects because the general manager of Eagle Crest is very experienced in other resorts. Mhmm. Where Craig, is on the special project of the is, you know, I think he skis, but obviously not in that wheelhouse. Right. So I definitely clarify on that.
Speaker 9:And then, of course, I'll throw my 2¢ out on the other. You know, this gondola project, in my opinion, is being delayed many times because, unfortunately, Eagle Crest let go of the general manager who had the vision for this, who had all the steps in line, you get rid of that person and expect other people to jump in and know everything that he knew on this project. You you instantly delayed it by a year to two years. People don't know how to do the gondola. So you gotta you know, people fault the city.
Speaker 9:They fault all this, you know, and other people, but you got rid of a person that was honchoing this.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 9:And, of course, now you have to pick up the pieces. Mhmm. So, you know, it's a delayed project. It's, you know, it's taking time, and now they're figuring it out and getting it on track. So, you know, hopefully, it it'll do what they say and make money down the line.
Speaker 9:And, you know, they hoped within five to six years that, you know, the city would not have to financially support it, you know, five years after it was installed. And that's you have to have that forward vision and that forward, you know, you know, working for the future on to make it better.
Speaker 6:So, anyway, that's my 2¢.
Speaker 9:Appreciate it. Yeah. You know, I would also say, if you don't know the answers, make sure that you're stating that we don't know the answers. Correct. Just, you know, know this because if somebody hears you guys or anybody on there saying, well, I think they were gonna do this, they look at what you said, and they forget about the think part.
Speaker 9:Yeah. And they just look at it as that's what was said and that's the truth. Mhmm. So you you gotta you gotta be really careful on what you say because people don't hear the whole sentence.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. You know? Absolutely. Thank you for that.
Speaker 9:So anyway, I appreciate you guys. You know, you you're doing a great job. Thank Keep on keep on trucking.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thanks for calling in and clarifying that up for us and giving me that comment. So, yes, I am not I'm not an expert with all that stuff, so, yes, I will click I'll make sure I clarify that I do not know the answer to some
Speaker 6:questions. All good.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I appreciate your call, mister.
Speaker 9:Alright. Alright. Thanks. Alright.
Speaker 3:Good good remedy too that We are not the news.
Speaker 7:Connor
Speaker 3:Connor is not the news.
Speaker 2:We are not official
Speaker 3:We are just strictly a platform to let Junoites speak and bring problems to the table and, you know, we just facilitate those those good respectful debates, discussions, whatever they may be. So keep in mind,
Speaker 2:folks. We do got another call.
Speaker 3:Love it.
Speaker 10:And my thing needs to go in. Hi.
Speaker 2:Welcome to problem corner.
Speaker 10:Good morning. It's Wednesday morning. Still looking for Thumbelina.
Speaker 2:Oh, no. Thumbelina's still out.
Speaker 6:Still nothing. Okay.
Speaker 3:That sweet little polydactyl.
Speaker 10:Yes. On all four feet, 24 toes.
Speaker 2:Alright. Still missing.
Speaker 10:Still miss my girl, and it's getting cold.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Remind me what area you were missing, Thumbelina.
Speaker 10:How often Tongus.
Speaker 3:How often Tongus. Got it. And a quick just description of her coat. She's Siamese.
Speaker 10:Kind of a grayish brown
Speaker 11:Okay. Siamese.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Little Thumbelina.
Speaker 10:Yep. Over by Glacier Valley Elementary School.
Speaker 3:Alrighty. And how long she been gone?
Speaker 10:Going on three weeks.
Speaker 3:Oh, it is getting chilly. Tumbelina, if you're out there, go on home, girlfriend.
Speaker 10:I some little girl or little boy's got her in the house, and I hope that their parents know that she belongs to somebody.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Have you already tried posting, like, Facebook or have someone post for you of a picture of Thumbelina somewhere?
Speaker 10:I need to get back on there and repost it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Absolutely. The more eyes, the better looking for
Speaker 10:Yes. Yes, indeed. Thank you. 58 sorry. 508041.
Speaker 6:8041.
Speaker 3:Perfect. For little Thumbelina. Okay. Alright. Well, I'm hoping she comes home soon.
Speaker 3:See if can find her.
Speaker 2:Of course.
Speaker 10:Bye bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. Bye bye. Yes. Let's get Thumbelina home. Oh.
Speaker 2:It's almost three weeks being gone. So Poor thing. I'm kinda with her that maybe someone saw this cat roaming around and decided to pick her up. And so if you came home with a polydactyl cat not that long ago, like, few weeks ago, there's someone looking for her. So definitely reach out.
Speaker 2:The number is 907508041, and we do got another call. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 11:Good morning. How are you today?
Speaker 2:We're doing good. How are you?
Speaker 11:I'm not too shabby. Guess things are looking up.
Speaker 2:Good. Good.
Speaker 11:So I'm calling today I am still kind of I'm looking for a projector.
Speaker 2:A projector.
Speaker 3:Okay. Like, to watch movies on? Or
Speaker 11:Like or yeah. To to watch movies or even a projector, like, to do images and stuff on the wall. I've kind of been getting into tracing lately. Oh, yeah. Even like a projector that would, you know, display or put pictures on a wall where I
Speaker 10:can hang something up to trace.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 11:You know,
Speaker 2:most of surfs coming in.
Speaker 11:Gotta gotta find hobbies to do. Alright. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Tis the season for those indoor hobbies for at least for my
Speaker 11:son. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm also if anybody needs any house cleaning, yard work, or or anything like that before, you know, snow hits or I'm interested in doing some labor work.
Speaker 3:Perfect. What's a good number for someone to contact you at if you if they have a projector for you or need some house cleaning or yard work?
Speaker 11:Sure. Yeah. Yeah. It's (907) 209-6819.
Speaker 2:68.
Speaker 11:And if anybody needs any house cleaning or anything, I'm able to provide references.
Speaker 2:Awesome.
Speaker 3:Alright. Let's see if we can either drum up some business for you or find you that projector.
Speaker 11:Alright. Alright. Thank you
Speaker 3:so much. You guys have a good day. Thank you. Too.
Speaker 2:Of course.
Speaker 6:You have a good one.
Speaker 2:Bye. Bye bye. Alright. I'm sure someone's got like, those little projectors are pretty popular. I'm sure someone got one and then found out they don't wanna use it anymore.
Speaker 2:So if you got a little projector laying around, give this lady a call at (907) 209-6819. And we do got another call.
Speaker 6:Oh.
Speaker 2:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:I heard you talking about Eagle Crest.
Speaker 2:Yes. We were chatting a little bit about Eagle Crest.
Speaker 6:So the the project the gondola project was first conceived at $2,020,000,000 dollars someday.
Speaker 2:Alright.
Speaker 6:And upon review by various people now this these are on certified numbers, but upon review by by various people, experts
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 6:There were there were several holes found in the budget, which might bring this thing to $20.25, between million now. Oh, wow. In addition to in addition to that, they have found I mean, this thing started three years ago. So they've found a lot of deferred maintenance deficiencies that they're gonna amount to it looks like a lot of money, like millions. Right?
Speaker 6:Like, an entire careless might have to be replaced because of just deferred maintenance.
Speaker 9:Oh, wow. Yeah.
Speaker 6:And then, you know and we're not talking about the operations. This this this this discussion these numbers that we're talking about have nothing to do with the the ongoing routine operation.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 6:Right? So the yeah. Those numbers are significant. They're staggering. But the idea was to make the thing generate money in the summertime off like, make it a year round cash flow.
Speaker 6:And and and and it's very likely according to the projections that the cash flow in summer would would far exceed those of the winter. Alright? Mhmm. And and then then it would pay all these costs back in in the form of debt service, and that's how that's how they would pay back GoBell for their their loan that they gave them.
Speaker 9:Right.
Speaker 6:So it it's all it's all possible on paper. What it needs is keen and very professional and and very aggressive management is what it needs. Yeah. And that's you when you're managing project of that size or that kind of money, that's always the case. Right?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 6:Nothing nothing profound there. Alright. Thank you.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 3:I'd be curious. I wish I would have asked that caller maybe who they were because I would like you know, like like one of our previous callers had said that, you know, people kinda take what we say.
Speaker 2:Well As I have caller ID, and that was Kugen of So, Kugen's yeah, he's a frequent caller. So, yeah, always
Speaker 3:See, you know all the frequent callers.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited hearing from him on the on the air on certain topics. He definitely has a good knowledge with a lot of stuff going on here in the
Speaker 3:community. He's got his finger on the pulse for
Speaker 6:sure.
Speaker 5:Yeah. And we do got another call.
Speaker 2:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Yeah. I'm I'm hearing all kinds of things I wanna make comment on, and Hughcrest being one of them. You know, that that was a little thing to start by sounds like Wade Bryce a little three years ago. And I just wanna tell everybody, you know, he's been out there for a bunch of different things over the years. You know?
Speaker 7:Yeah. We during the jackup bid that they've been voted down twice, but they're still trying to do some on that. They all pushed a new high school on us, which we didn't want, which is no longer a high school because we couldn't have eaten enough kids in that dang thing. Mhmm. Swimming pool.
Speaker 7:They put millions into a swimming pool downtown that, what, less than 200 people use year round, and we have a new one down here in the valley now. And to top it all off, we got a library that nobody really wanted, but they pushed on us anyway. Now this town needs far more things than these items that they they keep pushing on us. We have we need an incinerator that should have been replaced years ago, but we got a mountain growing and nothing that we're gonna do about it. You know?
Speaker 7:So, you know, they keep spending money that we don't have on things we don't need when we don't spend money on things we do need. This has been ongoing for years. It's think it's a little before Wade Bryson even, but they have the whole group downtown. They keep voting against the people, and people need to understand. Nobody downtown, including the mayor, should hold their office for the incompetence they have in our spending of our money.
Speaker 7:In fact, that really burns me because the mayor and Bryson both have businesses. And you think they would understand incoming money and outgoing money. If one exceeds the other, it's good. But if the other way around, guess what? You're going into bankruptcy.
Speaker 7:That's the reason Eagle was gotten rid of the first time. Two guys that started that thing filed bankruptcy because they couldn't afford to keep the place running. And now we keep putting going into the red on Eagle Crest just so the five percenters can go up ski when they wanna ski. I'm telling you, people need to get rid of everybody at the downtown, including the mayor, and load in new people so we get new money and new people in there trying to figure out how to run this dang city.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That's definitely a lot to chew on for sure that you just threw out there. But yeah.
Speaker 3:I hear your call. Absolutely. Yeah. Well
Speaker 7:well, you know, you think about it. Usually, people understand that every household has to live on a budget. And as soon as you step outside that budget, you start paying a price, you know, bankruptcies, losing houses, losing cars, and all this kind of stuff. And yet we got a mayor and and the assembly down there that don't seem to understand these things. You cannot spend more than you're taking in.
Speaker 7:And if you do things that do that, guess what? It usually cause a lot of problems and they don't seem to understand that. And for owning a business, I am quite surprised.
Speaker 5:Oh, definitely. I I hear I hear.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Money money is a huge, huge topic.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm running out of money myself, you know, and I'm retired, and I've gotta keep dealing with their BS on on all this. And, you know, you know, I just don't understand where they're coming from on some of it because common sense tells you you don't spend more than you get.
Speaker 9:Correct. Right.
Speaker 7:Well Anyway Yeah. I've ventured for a little bit there. I'm I'm not sure if I feel better, but, hey, I got it off my chest.
Speaker 3:I'm sure glad you fall.
Speaker 7:Here we go.
Speaker 3:I appreciate the the perspective. Mhmm.
Speaker 7:I'm sure we'll have a good one either way. Sunny day for change.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Absolutely. A sunny fall day.
Speaker 7:Yeah. If you don't mind frost on the ground.
Speaker 3:Oh, yes. You know? I do mind frost on the ground. But, you know, when when it burns off by noon, I guess I'll I'm looking at a beautiful scene out the window, so I guess I'll take it for what it
Speaker 7:springtime, had frost on the ground and I fell off my porch and broke my shoulder.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm so sorry. Frost. So sorry to hear that.
Speaker 7:Was I. I didn't get to do anything this whole entire summer because
Speaker 3:of it. Yeah. Justin had a a crazy mountain biking accident. It hurt his shoulder, so he was out all summer too. So
Speaker 2:I feel your pain, mister. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Which which shoulder did
Speaker 7:I understand their pain too.
Speaker 3:Did you hurt?
Speaker 2:You as well.
Speaker 7:Excuse me?
Speaker 3:Which shoulder did you hurt?
Speaker 7:Oh, it was my right shoulder. The throttle. I'm a motorcycle rider too. I couldn't even ride my motorcycle all summer. In fact, I rode it for the second time yesterday.
Speaker 7:And if it stays like it is today, I'm gonna get out for my third ride before winter because I'm probably one of the last ones, you know, so and I didn't get to fish all summer either.
Speaker 9:Right. Right.
Speaker 7:Well Well, that's It's been a bummer summer for me. That's the reason I'm venting against our assembly and everything, I guess.
Speaker 3:There you go. Well, you know, and come what is it? Next week. You know, make sure everyone's that good reminder. Everyone get your get your ballots in.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny thing is they seem to push all these things through on the limited number of people that are backing them. You know, some if everybody in this town, which I'm talking two thirds of it, would get off their dead keister and go and vote, then we could probably get a true perspective of what's really going on in this town. But right now, you're going by the number of people who are voting, which are most of those are the around the other side, if you know what I'm saying. So I don't have much opinion on them, but everybody has a choice to make everywhere and they're making theirs and some of the people who don't vote are making their choices and it hurts everybody else.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yep.
Speaker 2:Well, thanks for calling in, mister, and voicing your voice to the community and to us, and I'm sure other folks are right there with you.
Speaker 6:Mhmm.
Speaker 7:I like to think so. I just wish I'd prove it by voting.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Right. Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Well, get out there and vote, folks. And, mister, you have a great day, and we'll hopefully hear from you soon again.
Speaker 6:Oh, you will. Alrighty.
Speaker 2:You have a good one. Later. Later.
Speaker 3:You know, I'm I'm really glad he brought that up actually. I just was looking into this that the typical turnout for voters in Juneau is somewhere between 2040%.
Speaker 6:Wow.
Speaker 3:That is a lot of people that are not taking advantage of their opportunity to vote because that's what it is. It's an opportunity. Yeah. You know, I'm not gonna talk politics on here, but what I can say is get out and vote.
Speaker 2:Get out and vote.
Speaker 3:You know, we all got opinions, we all got you know, they send you the information in the mail. Yeah. You can get the information anywhere. Get out there.
Speaker 2:You can vote in person.
Speaker 3:You vote in person, you know, there should be you know, whatever. Regardless of what side of issues you are on, you have a voice out there. And come October 7, I hope everyone I mean, I'd love to see. Know it probably won't be 100%, but there's really no reason it shouldn't be.
Speaker 2:It shouldn't. Looks like it's time to take our first commercial break. So I see we do have a call. Give us a callback here in a few minutes or hang out, and we'll get you on the show. So we'll be back with more problem corner here on KINY.
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Speaker 5:Hello, Juno. I'm Brad Hooverth, and thanks to you, the audiences and the symphony members, I'm honored to have been selected as the new music director of the Juno Symphony, and I'm truly grateful for the opportunity. The community spirit and beauty of Southeast Alaska inspires me as I look ahead to a brand new season.
Speaker 8:We can't wait to share our first concert together, Courage and Connection on October at Juno Douglas High School Auditorium.
Speaker 5:We'll open with the flare overture, and we'll celebrate unity with Valerie Coleman's Emoja, Anthem of Unity. After intermission, Rachmaninoff Symphony number two will culminate with one of the most romantic melodies ever written.
Speaker 8:It's a concert of courage and heart, and we hope you'll join us for this unforgettable beginning to our new season, Bold Symphonic Horizons. Tickets are on sale now at junosymphony.org. We'll see you at the symphony.
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Speaker 1:Now back to problem corner where our community meets to talk, trade, and share.
Speaker 2:And welcome back to problem corner here on KINY. Quite the plethora of calls this morning so far, Devin.
Speaker 3:I know. I was really hoping for something maybe a little more lighthearted today, honestly, with the sunshine, and I'm thinking, man, today is today is a good day.
Speaker 11:Talk about problems.
Speaker 2:We never know what's gonna happen on problem corners.
Speaker 3:So So So true. I wanna hear some good news of
Speaker 2:something else. Let's see if someone's gotten good news or just wanna get something off their chest. So let's hit the phones. Hi. Welcome to problem corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Hey. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Good morning.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Hey. Amazing. I got on twice in one day. But, anyway, I called up a little bit ago about the gondola.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 6:And then early right afterwards, some somebody called up and said I was confused. And I and I guess my statement is, I guess, I am confused that this project started several years ago, and the gondola thing is just sitting on the ground, and nothing has been done. And the gentleman's response was political, in my estimation, that the person that was in charge of it is no longer in charge of it, but that's confusing to me that a million dollar project or several million dollar project, one guy leaves and nobody knows how to pick up the pieces. Excuse me. I had something stuck in my throat.
Speaker 3:If I can just I I think what the gentleman that called after you was was actually talking about is that he thought maybe you were confused between there's two Craigs that don't work together but are brought up when we're talking about the Gondola project because we have one Craig who was hired for the Gondola project itself and then there's Craig who is the Eagle Crest manager. And so No.
Speaker 6:I I'm not confused about that because I know who Craig Dahl is and Okay. And and I wasn't confused about that.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, the I I'm also not fully aware of what's happening as I know, like, with the change in management, obviously, yeah, like, how come there wasn't steps or plans in place to be able to pass it on to a next leadership and now they're almost not having to step back or like reassess it, so yeah, that is definitely It's a setback. It's it's flustering.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Either way is a setback. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6:Yeah. You know, whether you it's indicated as a setback or not, it just seems like if I was running a company, a million dollar project, and my foreman decided to, you know, get married and move to, you know, Vietnam, there's gotta be some kind of backup. You just don't leave a project hanging like that over one person leaving. That's confusing to
Speaker 2:me. Right. Yeah. And it's it's confusing for us. I wish I knew more about that process to be able to give you an answer, but I'm I'm kinda right there with you.
Speaker 3:You know, and and I think there's a lot of details to that, like, we probably won't know, you know, like how how someone leaves a job and things like that, Steps to, you know, things that were should have been wrapped up maybe before they left or we don't know. We don't you know, I don't have the full picture of, like,
Speaker 6:the What does anybody know? Is any is anybody responsible, the city assembly or the mayor or anybody responsible for for this project that it just keep going on and on and on and it's just sitting there not going any place?
Speaker 2:Well, it is it is part of the city, and then it's also, obviously, since Gold Belt has invested in that project, they're also involved with that. So it's kind of a planning between the city and Gold Belt as well.
Speaker 6:Yeah. I understand that Gold Belt has a a there's a financing behind it, but it just it just crazy to me that, you know, a project this big is not going anyplace.
Speaker 9:Right. Well,
Speaker 2:I'll I'm I'm kinda I'm hopeful because at least they're actually planning the placement of it now as we speak. Like, they've been working on it for the past couple weeks and planning out that path that where they're going to place those towers in. But, yeah, as far as what needs to be maintenance and worked on after the fact as far as a place I know there's some parts and stuff that need to be relooked at with the gondola. That's as far as my knowledge goes. But, yeah, that's kinda as far as I'm at with this project as my knowledge goes.
Speaker 6:Has there been, like, engineers involved in actually putting this thing together?
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 6:Pedestals or whatever they call putting this thing together or is it just that hasn't even been done yet?
Speaker 2:I know they have worked with engineers as far as that project goes and placement goes. So, yeah, they do have a team that are working together as far as mechanical use like, mechanical stuff and actual how the whole gondola works. Right? They were having people that know that system be a part of it.
Speaker 6:Well, yeah, they know that system, but it's actually in in blueprints or anything in that's been done that that moved the project forward?
Speaker 2:I do not know that part of it. So I We certainly don't have that. Guess the next yeah. I will try to find some answers. I could reach out to some folks and maybe we could throw it out on the airwaves or we can invite Eagle Crest back on the airwaves and do a little more in-depth breakdown as far as where we're at with that project.
Speaker 3:Yeah, all valid
Speaker 7:questions, Okay, that's for
Speaker 6:well, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 3:Of course. We appreciate yours.
Speaker 2:Appreciate your call.
Speaker 6:Okay. Bye, have
Speaker 2:a good one. Bye bye. Yeah, sadly we are not the experts on the gondola project, but our knowledge and mine a little bit just kind of as far as the community knowledge goes, and I don't know all the backend and all the parts of it, so I cannot be speaking on as far as part of the city and as far as Eagle We Crest
Speaker 3:are just community members here.
Speaker 17:Yeah,
Speaker 2:so I think reaching out to the city or even maybe sending out an email to the general manager, maybe they could send out a public release as far as the statement goes.
Speaker 3:And I'd be curious to see, I'd love to see the whole plan. Definitely. I would, or some sort of timeline, yeah.
Speaker 2:And we do got some more calls. Let's jump right to it. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Hey. So so a little bit of background on the whole Gondola project. Yeah. It is the city, for the longest time, like, a year and a half, insisted that they could manage the project. Mhmm.
Speaker 6:And absolutely nothing happened. So then they hired a project manager, but they never gave him any authority to actually run the project. So it was pretty much co opted by architects and what have you that maybe they were more interested in what the lodge at the top was gonna look like than actually getting the gondola built. Mhmm. The the the project manager was given no authority to actually move that project forward.
Speaker 6:Permits were not being applied for in a in a diligent manner, and the thing has just continued to stall out. Yeah. There has been a lot of work done. A bunch of the actual gondola engineering has finally gotten done. But, for example, we bought all the rest of the parts we wanted to have a mid station put in.
Speaker 6:They they were dismantled and ready to ship in Europe, and we did not go ahead and have them shipped. So pay had to pay to have them stored and then paid to be transported and finally getting shipped. I mean, the project has not been managed in a professional manager manage manner is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 6:And it's it's just one more very good illustration of why the city should not take on these projects. They should turn it over to private enterprise. Mhmm. And Goebbels' logical party now. Mhmm.
Speaker 6:They're so deeply invested anyway, and they run a they run a tram. You know? So, yeah, the the city is not capable of taking on projects like this and managing them correctly, let alone at a reasonable cost. So privatization is definitely the answer and that gondola will make money and it will support this ski area and make enough money to actually rebuild all that failing infrastructure up there that we never set it up, set aside enough money to pay for.
Speaker 2:And I I believe I believe that as well. I'm I'm an avid enthusiast of the mountain, so I definitely see heavy usage in the summertime, especially for our mountain bikers and hikers and visitors and all that. So I'm I'm excited to see what's gonna happen as far as summer operations goes up on the mountain when that project's completed.
Speaker 6:You know, contrary to a lot of folks' statements, the the previous manager that was dismissed was actually making a lot of headway in getting a lot of that infrastructure rebuilt. Mhmm. He was coming from so far behind the curve that they they were finding every time they turned around, they'd find something else that was not kosher. And and they were getting it all fixed. It was really disheartening when they decided to to let him go.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It was.
Speaker 3:Well, especially when you start seeing some headway.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Oh, we we well, you know, that manager had cleared half of the path for the gondola by himself in his spare time.
Speaker 9:Wow. I
Speaker 6:mean yeah. Wow. A monumental undertaking. I I I bet it would've cost a $100,000 to hire a contractor to do that work. And he just did it in his spare time.
Speaker 3:When clearly somebody that cares about the project, that's amazing.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, and gets things done.
Speaker 3:We love it, we love the doers.
Speaker 2:We gotta get it done.
Speaker 6:Yep. So let us hope that they'll actually make some like, for example, right now, they put out a a contract to build the road to the mid station, but they are not including pioneering the road to the top of the mountain, which means if they don't get that done before winter hits, it will be June or July before they can start work on the road to the top.
Speaker 11:Of Whereas if they
Speaker 6:pioneered the road this pardon me?
Speaker 3:Of 2026.
Speaker 6:Yes. Okay. Before they could even start building the road up there. Whereas if they pioneered that road right now, first thing in the spring, they could go up there with a snowcat and clear the snow off of that road and get started. It would give them three months advantage.
Speaker 6:Mhmm. Yeah. But they did the road around. Know? It's not We we need responsible professionals in charge of this project.
Speaker 6:Mhmm. So Agreed. City the city has so many things in their plate that they can't even devote the resources to really manage that project. They've got some nice folks working there, but they have too many things to do. They don't have time to take on a project of that magnitude.
Speaker 10:Right. You know?
Speaker 6:There needs to be somebody just dedicated to it and given authority to get it done. Okay. And that's the problem. Never given authority to actually say no, yes, go, here, left, right, go. Yeah.
Speaker 6:Right. Never given that authority.
Speaker 2:Well, appreciate
Speaker 6:it. Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox. Thanks a lot. Thank I you.
Speaker 2:I know you're very knowledgeable with this topic, so I appreciate Alright. Your
Speaker 6:Have a good rest day.
Speaker 2:You as well. Bye bye.
Speaker 3:He speaks so well on this topic. I would I mean
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not gonna throw his name out there, but he's very involved with Eagle Crest. He he attends the meetings and all those stuff as far as anything involved in Eagle Crest. So he's very outspoken as far as that ski area goes.
Speaker 3:Are those meetings open to public?
Speaker 2:They usually are. Yes. They they are public. So folks would come in and same similar dealios, assembly meeting, you're having a lot of time to kinda speak on things. And so, next yeah, time they have an Unicrest meeting
Speaker 3:Just going back to you know, the the folks asking us questions, I so appreciate that people ask us things. Just a reminder that so you know, some of these topics that people bring up here, you can go find those answers at some of these meetings. I love that we can open that dialogue here and we can have folks like the the last gentleman be able to give us some education on the topic, but we are we are not the experts. Me, you
Speaker 2:know Yeah.
Speaker 3:Me and you, Justin, are not the experts on so many topics.
Speaker 6:All you
Speaker 2:can really do is
Speaker 3:Facilitate the conversation.
Speaker 2:So as we're talking about that, did get an email on some material to look into if you wanna learn more about the Eagle Crest and what's going on with that project. So it's easy, just go to juna.org, then go to Assembly Agenda Minutes, then search on Eagle Crest and look both on Assembly and Eagle Crest board meetings, and then also backup materials. So yes, they usually record all those meetings, and you could always check back and listen in on them if you wanna learn more about what kind of conversations happened during those board meetings with Eagle Crest. So if you wanna learn more and get yourself more up to date, then those are always a great resource to go and look into.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. One, being able to look through the minutes and search like that, you know, you can't use the argument, I didn't have time. I didn't have time because
Speaker 2:Well, I'm guilty of that because Absolutely. Being part of
Speaker 3:this program,
Speaker 2:I feel like I should be watching all those videos and clips and be up to date and know what's going on. So, yeah, it's definitely tricky.
Speaker 3:We're we're just two people.
Speaker 4:Just We
Speaker 2:are fellow community members. Yes. And we do got another call. Let's get them on. Hi.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Hey. I'm gonna be a double dipper today.
Speaker 2:No worries.
Speaker 7:I had I had some afterthought after. I'm not yeah. I'm the shoulder guy.
Speaker 2:I'm the back.
Speaker 7:Anyway, the only thing I gotta add to what I've said earlier was the fact that, you know, I've I've talked around, and there's people telling me that they don't vote because their one vote doesn't make a difference. Well, I'm here to tell you people, this state, check it out. How many places have tiebreakers of pulling a card or flipping a coin because it was so close. Yes. Every vote counts.
Speaker 7:Every small town has a problem. With this town, because of the voters, the difference between winning and losing is such a small number, and they won't get off their keister. You know, it's a honor and a privilege to be a voter in The United States, and they don't wanna do that. So I'm I'm disappointed in them too.
Speaker 2:Yes. We need to get everyone out there to vote, especially folks that get upset about certain things. And then when you ask them, it's like, did you vote? And sometimes you get that no, and then it's like, how come? And so, yes, if you want if we need folks to get out there and vote voice like, this is your chance to really get your voice heard as far as the community matters goes.
Speaker 2:So, yes, get your ballots, vote in person. If you got your ballot in the mail, fill that out, drop it in the box.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I love. I
Speaker 9:And and voting
Speaker 6:Go ahead. Does start
Speaker 7:at city level, people. You don't have to be just president and all that stuff. The city, they've they look what happens they've done to this town, and you have a chance to change that. Change it, people, please.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Let's all work together and make better Juno.
Speaker 3:Yep. Yep. Absolutely.
Speaker 9:Alright. Mind minding my rant again.
Speaker 2:Alright. I appreciate you, mister. You have a good one.
Speaker 9:You too. Alright. Bye.
Speaker 2:Bye bye.
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Speaker 2:And we do got another call. We got a few more minutes left of the program. This might be our last call of the show, so let's get one. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Well, since you outed me on the last call, I'm gonna take another free kick. Go for it. You know, I heard some of the the the counter views on on the project up at Eagle Crest, and here's something we should consider. You know, it's a unique project. The city does street jobs and all kinds of work all the time, and it's pretty much their stock and trade.
Speaker 6:This is a little outside their wheelhouse. So, you know, conscientious and careful managers try to be as sure footed as possible because the worst nightmare would be to be unsure and proceed just to show that something's happening and to show action. And then if if things are not thought out well enough, you'd have to take it apart and do it over again. Now that is the worst nightmare in the construction management business. Absolutely.
Speaker 6:So it we we should actually be thankful that, you know, sure, we're losing the time value of money, and there's some carrying cost, but it could be way worse if if we if if they went in the wrong direction or something, there was mishap. Furthermore, even if there's, like, some material that wasn't procured and on hand and you start a job, then what? You're gonna send everybody home? Oh, yeah. We have to wait a month for this.
Speaker 6:You can't do that. That'll drive your costs up dramatically. So, you know, they may be it may look ugly, but they may be doing making the best of a bad situation. That's that's we should think about that too. Mhmm.
Speaker 6:And as far as Craig Dahl is concerned, I mean, obviously, he's not he's not what you would call a construction management guy, but but he he has a very historical background in in financial management and and looking out for the interests of lenders and owners. He was a bank he was in the banking business. Right. He's very competent. And I I think given that experience, he knows that if he needs someone to look at something for him, he he he he knows to do that.
Speaker 6:He'll hire a consultant to to know what he's looking at. But as far as managing the money and the paper goes, he he he's the man that you want for the job. He's he's an expert at that game.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah.
Speaker 6:So I I think we should be hopeful. We should be thankful for what we got, and it's it's not going at lightning speed. But sometimes that's a sometimes that's a good thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah. We want we want it done right, not fast and quick and something falling apart on us.
Speaker 6:It cost it cost more to drag it out over a longer period of time, but it costs way way more to correct mistakes. Those are that's really expensive. Yeah. It is. So alright.
Speaker 6:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thanks for calling back up again. I appreciate your insight.
Speaker 6:Mhmm. Absolutely. You bet.
Speaker 2:Alright. Have a good one.
Speaker 3:One yeah. To his point, you know, you'd hate to have it rushed through only to find that, hey, we actually can't open it.
Speaker 2:It's not working. Can't do it.
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Speaker 4:use it.
Speaker 3:Not necessarily here in Juneau, but, you know,
Speaker 6:long running joke.
Speaker 2:We are down to our final couple minutes. I wish I could plop another phone call in, but sadly, I cannot squeak it in. So usually this time, I like to go back and just echo out some of the calls we had. So we've only had a couple calls of folks reaching out for things today. So the first one, we're still missing Thumbelina, who's a grayish
Speaker 3:Grayish brown Siamese.
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Speaker 2:So if you need some work done or you got projectors sitting around, give her a call at (907) 209-6819. Wow, Devin, we had quite a pack full problem corner. A lot of gondola questions. I'm sure we'll try to well, yeah, we'll try to get some answers. We'll try to figure out what we could do to cover it.
Speaker 2:I know news in the North has been pretty good as far as Eagle Crest coverage lately. So I'm sure we'll get an update on our news channel very, very soon as far as the gondola project is concerned. And I appreciate all the calls today that did have a voice and some concerns about that whole project today. So remember, folks, this is your program. Call in with whatever's on your mind, whatever's on your chest, and we'll always listen to you and have good dialogue back and forth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I definitely love the respectful dialogue we get to host
Speaker 2:Of course. So, Devin, thank you so much for joining me here on problem corner on this Wednesday till next Wednesday.
Speaker 3:Till next Wednesday.
Speaker 2:But this has been problem corner here on KINY.
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