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Speaker 2:Well, good morning. Good morning. Hello, and welcome to Problem Corner. I'm your host, Wade Bryson, and Problem Corner is a community service of KINY. The purpose of the program is to swap and trade items noncommercially and to discuss issues that affect the community.
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Speaker 2:586-1800. You can also still send your text there, which I think is pretty cool. And if you're not quite excited to talk on Problem Corner on the phone, you now have that option with your cell phone. You can just shoot me a text, and I will be able to read that for you just right off the thing. Alright.
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Speaker 2:Our friends and community have helped us build through the years, and this issue is dedicated to the veterans program at SAIL Southeast Alaska Independent Living. Donors and sponsors can reach, can reach her at 419-1930 for more information. If you wanna participate or help get the inked and alt fundraiser calendar, and I believe that's where they have, some local tattoo. What do you what do you call it if you're tatted up? But they're in they're in a calendar with classic cars.
Speaker 2:So sounds like a a neat calendar. And to know that the proceeds go to benefit the veterans program at sale, even better reason to help them get that printed and then buy one when they're selling them, I would imagine closer to 2027. Alright. Well, good luck with the inked and alt fundraiser. If you'd like to help out, 419-1930.
Speaker 2:419-1930. Alright. Give me a call here. 5861805861800. You can also go to air@kinyradio.com, and that will send it over here.
Speaker 2:And from the looks of it, we're getting less and less emails all the time. So go ahead and send that text, 586-1800. Alright. What do we got here? A huge, yard sale, 8452 Mendenhall Loop Road every Saturday starting at 7AM.
Speaker 2:8542 Mendenhall Loop Road. Looks like they've had a few. So if you were, they had some grow equipment, some grow tents, and a whole bunch of things along those lines. But it looks like they're doing a a good old clean out Saturday garage sale every Saturday on Menenhall Loop Road. And getting your garage sale information on the Problem Corner, super helpful.
Speaker 2:Send your address, send a major cross street, send some of the themes. Do you have a lot of clothes? Do you got a lot of camping stuff, hunting stuff, guy stuff, girl stuff, crafting stuff. Those handful of details is all that people really need, and then we can get more folks to your garage sale. Alright.
Speaker 2:Come on. Give me a shout here. 586-1800. What topics did you wanna cover? Give me a call.
Speaker 2:586-1800. Here's a question. Could CBJ lease Eagle Crest to a private sector entity? And we had a CBJ law look into this, and the answer is yes. Another entity absolutely could operate Eagle Crest.
Speaker 2:The one restriction that, has to happen is that it has to be maintained as a recreation facility or recreation area. That's like its federal designation. So as long as the federal designation stays there, then then anybody, any private sector entity could lease or operate Eagle Crest. It'd be in the city's best interest. Here, take the Eagle Crest.
Speaker 2:We'll give you a dollar a year lease. That would free up money for Eagle Crest, for the new owner to, have capital. Oh, shoot. I don't answer the phone. I do it like this.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 3:Well, good to hear from you, mister Ways. I just have a question.
Speaker 2:Go ahead.
Speaker 3:I heard there is a casino by Eagle Crest.
Speaker 2:I had heard that last week.
Speaker 3:Okay. Well, I just I live here and I'm the last to know everything, but I was wondering who owns that casino and
Speaker 2:a very good question.
Speaker 3:Might be a little quick.
Speaker 2:I would say quarter mile, half mile down from Eagle Crest. You have to come down and Alright. It was on the land that the George family owned. I wanna say is the last name of the folks that I talked with about it. And so that but the actual ownership of the casino, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't Alright.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I was just kinda curious. So a casino in Juno, great. What else are we gonna get?
Speaker 2:A zoo. We really need a zoo.
Speaker 3:You guys are back on the air.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir. We got
Speaker 3:just want if anybody else there knows about that casino.
Speaker 2:I'll throw the question out there, sir. Alright. Thanks a lot. If anybody knows the ownership or more background about the casino, can Junoites just go play whenever they want to? I got another call.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Hello. They didn't hang out long enough. Give me a shout back here. 5861805861800.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Hi, Wade. So just real quickly, I believe it's Two Coppers Casino owned by Tlingit and Haida, Central Council Tlingit Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, and I believe the hours are two to 10PM. Alright.
Speaker 5:And they
Speaker 4:have a shuttle two shuttles. I know one of the locations is from Elizabeth Pradovich Hall, which is the old A And B Hall. Every hour on the hour from there to the casino for people that wanna grab a shuttle rather than drive up. But, yeah, you're you're correct. It's almost at the top of the mountain.
Speaker 4:It's where they used to sell fireworks. Anyway yeah. So it's operational. I don't I'm not sure if it's seven days a week or whatever, but Two Croppers Casino owned by Tlingit and Haida.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, hey. Thanks for calling and filling us in on that question.
Speaker 4:You bet. Have a good day.
Speaker 2:You have a good day too. Alright. Super helpful. There we go. Two Coppers Casino owned by Clinken and Haida, two to ten, and they have a shuttle going from the Elizabeth Peradovich Hall.
Speaker 2:Well, there you go. Hopefully, that answers the question about the casino. Thinking date night. Do they have a restaurant capability or a bar up at the casino? I probably should've asked that question.
Speaker 2:Has anybody been? That would be curious. Okay. If you've been to the casino, share with us your experience. This person says through the text that you can send 586-1800 send your text.
Speaker 2:This person wants to know what's going on with the Dredge Lake bus stop. Three posts this past week on the Community Collective Facebook page of overcrowded buses. So two things are happening. One, the information is going around. Don't take the $50 or $35 shuttle to the, glacier.
Speaker 2:Ride the city bus for $2, and then you can just walk on. And so we have people that are actually telling folks to do that. I've got a call, and then we'll finish that question. Why is it not doing that? Good morning.
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Speaker 6:Yeah, Wade. You have me now. My name is Mel.
Speaker 2:Hey, Mel. How are doing, man?
Speaker 6:I'm doing fine, Wade. At 06:30 in the morning, I got a call. But prior to that, I had a call, and this is for the seniors on scams. And the person I called is supposedly from Search Medical Center, which isn't spelled the way our tribal clinic is spelled. And he had a very thick accent.
Speaker 6:After I realized that it was a scam, I let him know that. I hung up, and he he tried calling back, but I I cut that call off.
Speaker 5:06:30,
Speaker 6:I looked at my phone when it rang, and it said the Church Medical Center. When I started asking him questions, he was giving me answers, and I want people to know how to get all the information on individuals. Where did he get it to that it was pertinent to just to me, and why is it out there? So I'm throwing this out over the public airways because somehow there's a system failed. And if there's a senior that's having mental problems or issues, I almost got drawn in until I realized this is a thick accent that's not even from America.
Speaker 6:That's all I got. It's it's a warning that I'm putting out there right now. Wait.
Speaker 2:Mel, did you happen to reach back out to search after the fact to see if maybe a department in search was actually trying to contact you or to let them know somebody was reaching out to you that you felt like it was a scam that was representing search? I might reach out and let them know this.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Yeah. Did call them, and it was kinda confusing, the answer I got. I don't wanna go into it because the reputation of a legal system that somehow it's been jeopardized to where information is being leaked somehow. And it's very troubling, but I can handle it because but it's very upsetting to me.
Speaker 6:But it's it's important for all seniors to know there's information out there and they target the seniors. And I understand some fell for it. That's all I got, Wade. It's just a warning.
Speaker 2:Alright, Mel. I appreciate you giving everybody that warning. Hey. Thanks a lot. Alright.
Speaker 2:Be wary of phone scams. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Oh, I think what Hello?
Speaker 2:Hello. You are live on Problem Corner. How's it going?
Speaker 7:I've been better, but I have a question. Does the, assembly understand finance at all? And the reason I ask that is that they're going to raise the sales tax for high end purchases. Yep. And I wish they would have done that, like, twenty years ago before every jewelry store in the world followed the ships into town and took out all our local businesses.
Speaker 7:But if they understand finance, they should understand when they raise costs, it reduces sales. Absolutely. So
Speaker 2:You're not you're 100% correct on that.
Speaker 7:Well and the way they're they seem to be looking at it is if they raise the eliminate the the discount on the sales tax and raise it so that they have to pay sales tax on all the really expensive jewelry
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 7:That they'll get more money. Well, that's not necessarily true. What that might do is reduce sales in Juneau, cause the jewelry stores to go other places, which I would have loved to have seen them go someplace else initially. And it doesn't necessarily mean they're gonna make more money. They're gonna have a lot less sales if they increase sales tax on big purchases.
Speaker 2:You absolutely hit the nail on the head. You're exactly right. And your first statement was, do they understand finance? Well, they don't understand that economic rule that the harder they squeeze, the more dollars that are gonna slip through their finger. So instead of increasing their tax base by going from $15,000 of a sales tax to $50,000, sales tax cap.
Speaker 2:That's you're you're exactly right. They just took every high end purchase that was in that range and every jewelry store that is connected to other jewelry stores in other cities in Southeast. They'll say, okay, I'm gonna have this Rolex at that location before you get there, and then you won't have to pay the, I don't know, sales tax on 35,000 extra dollars. And catch can sales tax cap is like a thousand bucks or something like that. And so they're just gonna sell Rolexes and catch can instead of selling Rolexes and Juno.
Speaker 2:And so it will reduce the sales tax base. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 7:Well and I actually have another another quick question too. It sounds like the assembly is going to close the Douglas Fire Station.
Speaker 2:That's one of their options. Yep.
Speaker 7:And, yet they're gonna keep a pool that almost nobody uses open
Speaker 2:for million dollars a year.
Speaker 7:I know that that's gonna raise a lot of people's, hackles. But Yep. The truth is the, the downtown pool, if you actually look at not visits, but who actually is using it, it's only a handful of people. And, so what they're basically saying is it's more important for a handful of people to be subsidized 40 some dollars a visit at a second pool than it is to have an ambulance for the people in Douglas to save lives.
Speaker 2:Sir, you
Speaker 7:And I'm just I'm missing that. I just don't get it.
Speaker 2:You could not be more correct. You are speaking what the whole community's thinking. Like, how can this be the decision that they're going to you are aware that I'm no longer a member of the assembly. Correct?
Speaker 7:Yes. Correct. I understand that, Wade. And for better or for worse, it's the way it is.
Speaker 2:But Yep.
Speaker 7:You know, I'm just I'm just I'm just not getting it. And the other thing is they
Speaker 2:can look at it. Getting it.
Speaker 7:Well and and then the other thing the assembly seems to look at is how can we get more money out of this 30,000 people we have cornered here?
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 7:And I've got two young adults at my house now, and they're both ready to leave. And the reason is they can't afford to live here. And as long as the assembly is hitting everybody up and eliminating rentals by charging so much property tax that you add, like, $500 before you start paying your rent.
Speaker 8:Yep.
Speaker 7:And and when they're keeping the expenses so high to keep a handful of recreational facilities that only a small number of people use small number, let me rephrase that. A small number of very, very vocal people use, they're gonna destroy the city. It's not gonna be a viable place to live.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 7:And, that's just my that's why the property taxes were cut down because, you know, the the property values skyrocket and they say, oh, well, you're saving money because our mill rate is only 12%. It's like, b s. If you're on a fixed income and your property is doubling in value, you're paying way more tax and you got a lot less food and transportation.
Speaker 2:Alright. So while I got you, I wanted to just go over one thing because you you've been so accurate today. It's the very thing that is missed. And so while you're extremely correct, they spent a whole bunch of time trying to figure out how can we squeeze the sales tax to get a little bit more out of that. Oh, remove the cap on it, which is gonna reduce sales.
Speaker 2:So it's gonna reduce the tax base. There's just nothing I'm sorry. I got lost in all of the conversation that we're having here. So you're not you are not wrong about the statements that you have made today.
Speaker 7:Well, I got one more that's even more controversial if you wanna hear it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Let's see. I got one minute before I gotta go to the break. Sure.
Speaker 7:We're wasting a ton of money on the school system, and we're using a school system that's 200 years old, and, they're not allowing kids with ability to move ahead. They all have to stay at the same pace as the slowest kids. Now that makes no sense to me either, and they keep saying throw more money at it, get more teachers, get more space, build more schools. Well, bottom line is if you use a system that's 200 years old today, you're not gonna get a better result. And, well, just one side note is my kids are now out of the school system, and my younger son has test anxiety, and he looked at those standardized tests to prove where he's at as a day off.
Speaker 7:He just check anything off to get through it and go on his way. He didn't care what his score was.
Speaker 2:Gotcha. Yeah.
Speaker 7:And so the question is there the kids have no skid in the game to do well on those tests. They can't test out of anything. They can't get any benefit.
Speaker 6:So what's the point?
Speaker 7:How are they gonna what is gonna make them look at it like it's a serious thing that they have to do their best on?
Speaker 2:No. I totally get it. Alright. The last thought popped into my head. So the what I was saying, the city spent a whole bunch of time trying to figure out how to fix sales tax.
Speaker 2:Excuse me. If the city, instead of going through an excruciating process to figure out the Huna Totem dock, if they just signed off and said, yep. Go ahead and build it, and we'll inspect it while you build, And they allowed Huna Totem to be begin building now. The level of property tax that could that they could generate per year was like $1,500,000, maybe it was like $1,300,000. But once that dock is built, it's worth about $1,000,000 plus a year in property tax.
Speaker 2:But because of the city process and everything that Huna Totem has had to go through, they're already one year, you know, just because of the process that they got delayed, and now they're going through a two year city process. If the city just said, go ahead and go build, Huna Totem could have that, and that could add a million dollars a year of sales tax. And that's how you increase the tax base without fleecing your citizens allow for the growth. But with that, I gotta take a commercial break, my friend.
Speaker 7:Okay. Thanks, Wade. Appreciate your time.
Speaker 2:No. That was a blast. Alright. I'll be right back with more Problem Corner on, oh, on KINY.
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Speaker 1:Now back to Problem Corner where our community meets to talk, trade, and share.
Speaker 2:Alright. Welcome back to Prom Corner. Give me a shout. 586-1800 as I have a call. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Prom Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 17:Good morning. We have a, five drawer
Speaker 14:five dresser drawer. It's in pretty good condition. If anyone wants it, they could come and
Speaker 17:pick it up and call Elliot at 500-3840.
Speaker 2:3840?
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Speaker 2:3848. I'm glad I said it. Okay. Alright. Let me see if somebody wants a five dresser drawer.
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Speaker 2:Alright. You're welcome. Five drawer dresser. Call Elliot. 907503848.
Speaker 2:503848. Well, you have to give me a shout back. Apparently, it doesn't hold the calls as long, but let me try and get you here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 9:Yeah. I was wondering what the the thing is about hearing that they they wanna pay all the residents off so they can they can play with their PFT money. It's not their money.
Speaker 2:I have not heard anything recent about it. Has something come up lately?
Speaker 9:Yeah. Walker is talking about it.
Speaker 2:Okay. I'm pretty certain he's not an elected official right now, so that I don't know if that would do any good.
Speaker 9:Yeah. Yeah. Well, to to mention and say, oh, well, we'll just pay everybody off with $10, and they'll be happy. No. You're gonna have to do better than that if you want it.
Speaker 9:You cut it down the middle. Okay? But the people get more than than the elected officials.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 9:They already got money.
Speaker 2:There you go. How much do you think that we should what do you what would be an adequate payoff amount to you for you to give up your PFD?
Speaker 9:Oh, you got lots of money there.
Speaker 2:No. No. No. My question to you is what would be your number? What if they said, okay.
Speaker 2:We're gonna give every citizen x amount of dollars to finally stop the PFD. I'm just asking, what's your price tag? What would you think would be acceptable for that, sir?
Speaker 9:Yeah. Give the citizens a million dollars.
Speaker 2:Oh, so give every resident $1,000,000.
Speaker 9:It started out for the people. It didn't start out for the greedy politicians. Okay?
Speaker 2:Oh, sure.
Speaker 9:That's not that's that's not what Hammond made it for. Okay.
Speaker 2:No. I don't disagree with you. I was just asking what your price tag was.
Speaker 9:He was was really right about the moment that they they just we're just gonna take just a little bit. Uh-huh. I said that that type of mentality can and just a little bit more. Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, I hear you. If they're talking about breaking up the PFD, he says a million dollars per citizen. There enough money in the PFT for that? That's a good question.
Speaker 2:Alright. We'll keep rolling here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Hey. Good morning, Wayne.
Speaker 2:Morning, sir. Hey.
Speaker 8:I did go to that casino up there.
Speaker 2:Oh, what'd you think?
Speaker 8:Well, I know that I can tell you the slots are pretty tight. You know, you go with 20 in hopes to at least doubling that. And I had a little luck at beginning, but then it just took it all back. So I got I I contributed $200 to their their the fund they wanna bring there. Anyway, it was interesting.
Speaker 8:Definitely, the roads aren't the greatest going up the Eagle Crest.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 8:And they still do sell fireworks over there.
Speaker 2:Oh, right on. It's that time of year.
Speaker 8:Yeah. And another side note there, I don't know if anyone's seen that movie disclosure one of the steel Steven Spielberg movie. I got a chuckle at the last minute of of the whole movie there, and I I they should rename it Spielberg's Revenge, but they bring in OET. It's hilarious. I mean, I started laughing.
Speaker 8:He said, oh, man. This is the revenge. Gotta be one of his worst movies all up to the very last, and he and he wheeled in on a wheelchair, you know, a similarity of what e t looked like at about forty years later. And it's it's definitely his revenge for all this other stuff there anyway. But that's my 2¢ for today.
Speaker 8:Thanks.
Speaker 2:Alright. Thanks for the 2¢. Alright. Man, phones are rolling now. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7:The years ago, they offered they were gonna offer 25,000. Everything's doubled since then to about 50,000.
Speaker 8:That'd be
Speaker 2:your price to break up the PFD, 50,000 per person? Alright.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Very.
Speaker 2:Okay. So 50,000. What would be your price tag to give up your future rights to the PFD? Is 50,000 enough? I was finishing with Dredge Lake while I'm waiting on more calls.
Speaker 2:586-1800. One of the other things that happens that fills the bus up where citizens can't get on it and they're taking people out there. The bus routes, a lot of the bus routes in the morning drove all the way through town. So instead of starting at the downtown bus depot or at the Federal Building, they're driving through town and picking up the busloads of tourists first, and then they're going to pick up the Juno citizens. I made the suggestion.
Speaker 2:How about don't drive through downtown and then anybody that needs to take the bus, they can walk up here and it'll help to first find spread out some of the, you know, the bus stops won't be have, like, 30 people at one bus stop because you're driving straight to right in front of the downtown library and 30 people are getting on the bus. How about don't go to that stop? They were not able to make that change, and so we still have one of the problems that we're facing. Alright. Phones are ringing.
Speaker 2:I should probably do that. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Yeah. So I was just listening to
Speaker 7:that guy there. You know? He said a million bucks for a payoff there. It was just made me think of an old episode of the Chappelle show there where, they paid out reparations and, nothing happened.
Speaker 2:What do you mean?
Speaker 7:Everybody stopped going to work. And, yeah, you know, nothing. Anyways, I don't know. Made me chuckle million bucks.
Speaker 2:I'll take mine. Yep. Alright. Hey. Thanks for that, buddy.
Speaker 2:I kinda know what he's talking about. Let's just think about it for a moment in your mind. Every Junoite and every Juno child, right, they just have to be born for that year's PFD, all of a sudden has $1,000,000. How tight is the labor market gonna be after that? Who is still gonna have employees, and who's gonna still live in Alaska if they give everybody a million bucks?
Speaker 2:I don't know if we'd like any of those answers. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 3:It sounds like the PFD payout is a topic of the day.
Speaker 2:One or two fun things. Sure.
Speaker 3:I would go for 25,000.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:That way if you have kids, you can put money aside for college for them.
Speaker 6:Hopefully that would happen.
Speaker 3:Maybe I'd buy a boat and get the heck out of college.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I could see that being a a very common sentiment.
Speaker 3:Have a good day.
Speaker 2:You as well. Alright. 586-1800. 586-1800. Hey.
Speaker 2:This Sunday is Father's Day as we always remember it's Mother's Day on Saturday. I'm letting you know on Wednesday that this Sunday is Father's Day. To all my fellow fathers out there, have a happy Father's Day. Hopefully, everyone will all your family members will show you a good Father's Day. Good morning.
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Speaker 7:I know. I know. I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2:Alright. Lance Mitchell, everybody. Take care, Lance. Alright. Thanks.
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Speaker 6:Good morning, Wade.
Speaker 2:Good morning.
Speaker 6:A million bucks.
Speaker 3:Check me
Speaker 6:up right now and take me to the casino.
Speaker 2:That would be one way to spend the afternoon. Giving your money back to the casino. Sure.
Speaker 6:Anyway, yeah, their pickup is over here at the Red Dog and at the Ann Hit. I think it's believe it's called their downtown tourist shop there.
Speaker 2:Then what what time is that? The time
Speaker 6:It's it's every hour on every hour and every half hour.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow. Every half hour. That's pretty frequent. They really wanna get folks up there.
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah. They're getting people up there. Let me tell you. There's no smoking. There's no drinking.
Speaker 6:It's just gambling.
Speaker 2:There's no food. Done. There's no food?
Speaker 6:No food. No booze. Nothing. Just get up there. You hit the slot machines and get done.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow. No food and drink at a casino. Alright. Well, go get her done. Hey.
Speaker 2:Thanks for that.
Speaker 6:Hey. Have a good day, mister Wade.
Speaker 2:You too, sir. Alright. Learning more about the casino every day. All I could think is a food truck opportunity. They don't have food up there.
Speaker 2:Alright. Let me take this next call. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Hey, Wade. Good morning. Good morning. Again.
Speaker 2:Hey, Mel.
Speaker 6:You know, Wade, that big money is just not gonna happen. It it just isn't gonna be. So
Speaker 2:Oh, sure.
Speaker 6:Stop thinking ahead. That's all I got.
Speaker 2:Actually, I would recommend thinking ahead so that you could be planning on a future that does not have a large PFD payout. Is that what you meant? Yeah. Okay. No.
Speaker 2:I'm with you, buddy. Yeah. I would definitely not hold my breath for a substantial
Speaker 6:PFD payout. Later, Wade.
Speaker 2:Later, Mel. Alright. You guys are doing great with these phone calls. I'll just keep going here. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Was just listening to your program.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I just wondered, you know, because some of them put their money into the, what you call, for the kids call
Speaker 2:Oh, yes. Kids call the 509 account 529 account. That's what it is, where you can invest your child's money.
Speaker 5:What's happen what's gonna happen to that if if they close out our PFD?
Speaker 2:The 529 account would still exist. That is a federal program, not a PFD program. So you can get your child 529 account.
Speaker 5:I know, but you you talk before people finish talking. You know, they always talk about our permanent fund going into it. Yep. So that's why I'm wondering what's gonna what's what's what what are they gonna do then?
Speaker 2:There would there would be any fun to go
Speaker 8:in it.
Speaker 5:Fun in sport.
Speaker 2:Yeah. There'd be no more money for adding to your kid's 529 account. That would be one of the outcomes you got wrong.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So the other one was, you know, I don't I don't trust that Walker. He's running for governor again, I think. Had no We had a account put aside. They said 5,000,000, the state put aside and you spend 4,000,000.
Speaker 5:What do you spend that 4,000,000 on? That's what I'd like to hear about, see what our legislators say. What did you spend that money on? $4,000,000. That's a lot of money for him to spend when he was governor.
Speaker 2:Don't they spend like $4,000,000,000 a year in the state budget though?
Speaker 5:No. You know, they had an account set aside and he spent he spent, what is it, four fifths of that amount. Yeah. That's a lot of money he spent. And I never hear the legislature say what what did he spend it on?
Speaker 5:You know? They never said nothing. And our governor now, he couldn't do nothing. He signed up on when they asked for a 50% raise. That's a lot of raise for the legislature and the governor, he signed it right away.
Speaker 2:Well, of course he did.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So that's why he ain't doing nothing for the people. Why didn't the people put a petition out to get their money back? That's why, know, that's why what you call it going down. That's a big raise for them, 50 raise for legislature's stand for the governor.
Speaker 5:That's what I'm appalled about. Alright. Thank you for the program.
Speaker 2:Hey. You're welcome. So Dublin, the salary of our legislative body, not during a time of budget cuts. Good morning. Welcome to Prom Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 17:Good morning.
Speaker 2:Good morning.
Speaker 17:I've got a question.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 17:My sisters and I have been walking the sidewalk in the valley, up trash and around Glacier Valley. And going the next day, it's even worse. You know? At some point, something's gotta give. You know?
Speaker 17:People don't respect Juno that they just, you know, throw all the fast food and snack thingies out their windows in the street.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's awesome.
Speaker 17:We even had a we even had a a sushi container thrown in our side yard. But, yeah, please, you know, just leave it in your car till you get home. But if you don't want mommy to see it, then go find a garbage can somewhere that's open that you can throw it. Don't take it in the street.
Speaker 2:Completely correct. No. That's you're spot on. I don't know how we can convince adults not to litter. Yeah.
Speaker 17:If I you know, if we see somebody, you know, throwing garbage out of their car, we're gonna get their plate number and turn it in. And I would hope JTD would do something, because it's littering. I mean, it's like people that drive their trucks full of crap out the road and dump it just because they don't wanna pay the dump fee.
Speaker 2:And every person is responsible for their trash. You're not wrong about that.
Speaker 17:Exactly. Yeah. There's a the curve down at the end of Tongass is notorious for the fast food stuff. For the kids coming home, they don't want mommy or daddy to see it in their car.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 17:Or they're just too lazy to oh, that's notorious right there. That little curve right as you get off a gale, they throw tons of it, and, you know, we're even talking Chinese fast food containers. You know? McDonald's subway rappers. It's it's just all there.
Speaker 17:And, you know, it's it's too bad that, you know, even the younger generation is learning from the older generation to do that.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, hey. Thanks, Sarah, for giving us a shout today.
Speaker 6:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Alright. You have a great day. Alright. We got just a minute or two left in the show. We got 2¢ that you need to give us, and, shame on the litters.
Speaker 2:Do you call them out or not? That's a good question. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 2:Live on Problem Corner. Alright. We'll go to this one. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 9:Real quickly, I still have my things for sale.
Speaker 8:Hey. If you'd like to
Speaker 9:know what I have for sale, give me a call at (907) 957-1673.
Speaker 2:Alright. We will do that.
Speaker 9:And and just to let you know, change is inevitable. A lot of places that, you know, the highway the old highway, everything changes. So you're invading your telephone. It was gonna be gone. All from every place is gonna be gone.
Speaker 9:And, yes, the Augustus Pool is gonna go too. There's not enough people using it.
Speaker 2:Gotcha. Alright. Well, hey. Thanks for the 2¢.
Speaker 9:We need the parking.
Speaker 2:Parking lot where a pool should be. Alright. Things for sale. If you're interested in any of those items that gentleman has, 957-1673. 957-1673.
Speaker 2:I've got time, I think, for one or two calls here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:What's up, Buttercup?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. What's up with you, man?
Speaker 6:Oh, I'm just sitting here pondering the meaning of life and realizing I'm still a million dollars shy of being a millionaire.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 6:Yeah. First thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna demolish my leaky trailer and head out of town, and I think that town is gonna shrink.
Speaker 2:If everybody had a million dollars, this town would shrink incredibly. Yes.
Speaker 6:Well, I'm still out there. Yeah. I I know if I had a million dollars, I would be one less person living here because, you know, June is beautiful and everything, but the weather come on.
Speaker 9:But it's
Speaker 6:been really nice this year.
Speaker 2:Nice and cold. Living
Speaker 6:in a leaky trailer.
Speaker 2:I hear you.
Speaker 9:But then I but then again, I'd like I'd love to buy a boat.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, hey. Thanks for that. So if that gentleman had a PFT payout, he would, fix the roof and then bug out of town, maybe on a boat. Good morning.
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Speaker 8:What I was thinking is the state or DOT can set up some sort of game camera where these people frequently throw their trash
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 8:And catch them that way.
Speaker 2:Well, you don't even need to use a game camera. You could use, like, a
Speaker 8:It's gotta be something.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Like Nowadays with
Speaker 8:all these cameras and how small they are.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Yes.
Speaker 8:And catch these people where they're frequently going. There's pull offs and just keep an eye on it.
Speaker 2:Oh, were we using too much common sense for a government solution? That's one of the problems we're gonna run into.
Speaker 8:I forgot. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Can't use all that common sense.
Speaker 7:But There that. There is that.
Speaker 2:Which is funny because, what, 10 cameras? 10 remote cameras would eliminate junk dropping off. Do you think they have ten ten locations? Maybe they'd find Oh, yeah. There's or three of ones?
Speaker 8:Seen kits that come with 10 to 12 and even more cameras and
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah. Out.
Speaker 2:Alright.
Speaker 8:I mean, I'm not saying that, you know, it'd have to run on some sort of battery or something.
Speaker 2:A little satellite. Game cameras
Speaker 8:and catch everything that moves at your bait stand or whatever, so where you people put out, you know, bait bears and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Here's the one thing everything. No. You that is the answer. The one thing I'm thinking is that how do we the state would have to be on board because we'd be a lot of places that they dump is on state roads.
Speaker 18:But even if we got
Speaker 2:the Juno Roads covered, that would be enough to at least make a difference.
Speaker 8:I wouldn't be surprised if it if it nipped it in the bud
Speaker 7:a bit.
Speaker 2:Alright. Yeah. I completely agree with you. I think that would be a solution that would stop this random, littering.
Speaker 8:Mean, you know, we might people could be running junk cars whether it's possible, but the water's close to the road, and they can just push off junk cars. We don't know about with any of that's happening because we never probably see it in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, I don't see a lot in the middle of night. Alright. Well, hey, that's our time. Thanks, buddy.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Thank you, Putt.
Speaker 2:Alright. Cameras pointed at the problem areas where people are littering illegally. A thousand dollar ticket for first offense, 5,000 for the second offense with video evidence. Would that solve the littering problem? I think it would.
Speaker 2:Alright. Hey. That's our time. I wanna thank everybody for calling in, tuning in, hanging out with us. Go ahead and give us a email, ayer@kinyradio.com, a text 586-1800, or just call tomorrow or Kate will be doing the show.
Speaker 2:Till next time. Remember, on Problem Corner, there are no such thing as problems, just solutions we've yet to discover. Have a great rest of the day. I'm Wade. I'm out of here.
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