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Speaker 2:And good morning, and welcome to Thursday Problem Corner with your host for Thursday, Katie Bosler joined by Justin Miller.
Speaker 3:Good morning.
Speaker 2:Good blustery rainy Juno fall morning.
Speaker 3:It is officially fall now.
Speaker 2:It is and we have a call already.
Speaker 3:All right, let's get them on.
Speaker 2:Good morning. You're on problem corner. Hello?
Speaker 3:Oh, let me
Speaker 4:get it. Hey.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 5:Good morning that, if you will. I I walked in downstairs to find the city clerk's office and the one in where it usually had been and asked the employee there where the city clerk's office was, and she didn't know. So that was kind of, my gosh. I mean, you're you're under the same roof, but you don't know where that office is. So but I guess she must have been a new hire.
Speaker 5:But it was just kinda continuum of lack of access to the departments, and I think that that's to me. And and and and when you leave a voice mail and we leave, you know, on you would think you get a callback by leaving that voice mail, but and you give a person two weeks, they never call back. So that that's kind of my frustration, the accessibility to the people in the departments that are not representing their departments, and that's what they get paid to do, I would think.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Okay. Alright. Well, thanks for letting us know
Speaker 4:Thank you for
Speaker 5:your time.
Speaker 2:That. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 5:And, again, kudos back to the assembly, the mayor, the assembly people that they have a tough job and they get beat up a lot and their intentions are good like mine for representing the community and making the community a better place. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Thank you. All right. Well, we do have another call. Good morning.
Speaker 2:You're on Problem Corner.
Speaker 6:Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 4:One
Speaker 6:time, they had a brewery company on your program, and I called and I asked if any of the brewing companies here in Alaska had Heather Ale. The man said that the man was writing it down. So I wonder if any of the companies make that now. I'll get off the phone. Did you
Speaker 2:say did you say Heather Ayl?
Speaker 6:Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2:Heather Ale.
Speaker 3:Heather Ale. I'm a pretty big beer head, so maybe I have to look into that and figure that out, but I've not seen that around town with any of our local breweries. So yeah, we could look into that for you and see if there's anywhere we could find that specific ale for you.
Speaker 6:Yeah. They used to make that years ago. There was a really company in Boston and they made that. And I had a friend that was getting married. Their daughter was getting married, and I wanted to purchase a case.
Speaker 6:But I found out when I called Boston, they said they didn't make that anymore. That was like long time ago.
Speaker 2:You know, it's probably worth calling Devil's Club and Forbidden Peak and asking them if they've considered that. From what I can see from a quick Google search, it's a light amber ale with a floral peaty aroma, full malt character and a spicy herbal finish. And it looks like it has some origins. The legend of Heather Ale is actually it's from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem and also has some Gaelic roots.
Speaker 6:Yes, it is, it's Scottish. Thank for you so much and you have a marvelous day.
Speaker 2:You too. And we do have another call. Good morning. You're on Problem Corner.
Speaker 7:Hey. Hello. Yeah. Just wanted to respond to a a recent call on Jeff Adams with Sprint at Telephone Hill. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2:Yeah. We can hear you okay. You might be on speakerphone. It'd be easier if you just kind of pick up the phone if that's possible.
Speaker 7:Okay. Hold on a sec.
Speaker 4:How is that? Is that better?
Speaker 2:That's much better.
Speaker 7:All right. There you go. You can hear me a little bit better. I I really respect the fellow who who spoke up, I know that that it might be a little bit of a problem for people who are who are going to these assembly meetings and they're wanting to have something to say. But I just wanna say that yeah?
Speaker 4:Go ahead. Go ahead.
Speaker 7:Yeah. Yeah. I just wanna I wanna give a shout out, and I I hear what he's saying, but it was much more than just Telephone Hill on on Monday night. I mean, tell us the Telephone Hill people, we filled the room with people from Affordable Juno Coalition. There are other people from the community.
Speaker 7:It wasn't just about us. We're we're tired of of not being heard as a community, and that's what's going on. And that's why we're there. It's it's a diverse movement, and it's being created by a broken government that refuses to listen to its people. It's not that that we wanna be disrespectful to our government.
Speaker 7:It's that the government refuses to listen to its people. And this is our money that they're that we're dealing with, and they're making very, very bad decisions with it that will affect us for generations to come. I hope that that doesn't, you know, that doesn't inconvenience people too much, and I understand that there are other issues. But I feel like the fellow you know, the the voice chief problem that's that's happening with CBJ in in their own hall, if if they're if they're doing their job, they should be answering their phone. And I think that we're pretty much part of the same team.
Speaker 7:That guy, you know, he could be up there with us saying, hey. Listen. You guys don't even answer your phones. That's a form of not listening to your people. I think we're on the same team, brother.
Speaker 7:And I just wanna give a give a shout out. I mean, you shouldn't you shouldn't be mad at us. You should be mad with us. Thank you. That's all I have to say.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's great.
Speaker 2:Thanks for calling. Appreciate it. You bet. All right. Well, we got a so some conversations stirred up there, didn't we, Justin?
Speaker 3:No, I think that's totally understandable, like not just within our local government, but local businesses. Like obviously if you try to call and make an appointment somewhere or trying to get ahold of a representative or someone within the city government and you leave a voicemail, it's almost like you're playing phone tag. Like you're trying to track someone down to get an answer or even just to get your voicemail or your voice heard within city government. So whether it be a standalone voice, someone that answers the phone and then directs voicemails to where it's needed. One great tool that we have here at the radio station is voicemails get recorded and they get emailed to us.
Speaker 3:So someone leaves a voicemail on my phone, if I get an email about You that
Speaker 2:get a transcription.
Speaker 3:Right. Well, not really a transcription, but I get the actual audio. I just pull up my email. I have the voicemail there. I can listen to it even if I'm not at my office.
Speaker 3:So if I'm during the weekend, someone calls my phone, I get a notification. So I don't know if that's another workaround to maybe mitigate some of those non calls that are getting answered. So I don't know, it's possible solution to fix that.
Speaker 2:It might be the issue of technology in general too, right? Because we can get in touch through text or through email, then people might not think it's as important to have that phone to phone contact or that person to person contact or even to be at your desk. Like in the olden days when you're there with your phone with a little curly Q attachment from the receiver to the phone. So yeah, I don't know the answer but I think of that last caller had a really good point. We're probably more on the same page than we realize.
Speaker 2:And that's something I think that is really coming to light on a national level as well, right? I mean, we all want the same basic things. Basic We services and education for ourselves and our families and our kids, but there's a lot of fighting about how best to go about that.
Speaker 3:I know it's always the issue, execution. How does it get executed and how it's all put into place? So it's always a struggle in all aspects of life. How do you execute it?
Speaker 2:Yeah. But leading up to this election, the deadline is October 7. We do have three propositions on the ballot and two of them are from citizens initiatives. So to remind everybody, prop one caps our property tax at non mills, nine mills brings that cap down from 12 mills right now it's just over 10. Prop two is to exempt everybody actually from food tax and from utilities tax and prop three would enact a seasonal rise in the tax to 7.5%, but then during the tourist season and then when it's not tourist season, it's 3%.
Speaker 2:So folks, we do have another call.
Speaker 8:All right.
Speaker 2:Good morning, you're on problem corner.
Speaker 9:I've got to tell you, sorry about that. If anybody wants to trade, if anybody wants to trade anything, I don't need cash if they wanna trade for that Superman comic, the coin, or and, yeah, I have a lot of old stamps, so I don't know what they're worth now. But if anybody wants to trade, 9074195262. I don't need cash. We can trade for whatever.
Speaker 9:So if people wanna consider that some options. So thank you.
Speaker 10:Okay. Problem.
Speaker 3:We'll add that to my notes.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. All right, Justin. It is just after 11:30. Should we take a break?
Speaker 3:Yeah. Let's do it. We'll be back with more problem corner here on KINY.
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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 everybody. It's Thursday. This is Katie Bosler here with Justin Miller.
Speaker 3:Hello.
Speaker 2:Hello. Hello. It is just about twenty minutes before the hour and we do have a call. Good morning. You're on problem corner.
Speaker 10:Hi. Good morning. Hi. I was wondering since we're kind of on the topic of kind of the assembly and then maybe approving the purchase of the city and the Gold Belt Building, was there ever any thought, you know, we're buying it. I think it's from the Indian Corporation.
Speaker 10:I may be saying this wrong, but I was under the impression that the middle school in the Valley is being leased to one of the corporations for daycare or something. Why couldn't they have used the middle school, sold that to the corporation to buy the city portion of the gold holding?
Speaker 3:I do remember that I'm
Speaker 10:not saying that right, but
Speaker 3:No, I do remember that conversation a while ago about, I don't know if it was Clicking to Hyder or another Alaska Native corporation, but yeah, they were talking about using the Floyd Dryden School as kind of like a head start program for young youth kids. But yeah, I wish I had an answer for why they didn't think about you thinking of middle school as a city hall or some sort of city office, but.
Speaker 10:Well, I know a lot of the people were interested in that because the majority of the population live in the valley. But I was just thinking, why couldn't they have used that where they sold that to the corporation instead of having to pay out of pocket for the Gold Belt Building, the two floors. They're just leasing it to them.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 10:And it just seems like a lot of the corporations seem to have quite a bit of money today, you know, for purchasing different buildings around Juno that maybe we could have used that as a leverage where we wouldn't have to pay so much out of pocket.
Speaker 3:That's a good thought. I'm right. I'm with you on that. I wish I had a little more insight as far as those decisions go. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Then I hear you.
Speaker 10:Another thing is if we're leasing it to them, does that mean that we have to do all the upkeep if it needs a new roof and everything? Because I know when they replaced roofs on some of those schools, they were pretty expensive. You know? Or it would have been nice if we could you know, if we weren't interested in it for the city building that we could have sold it.
Speaker 2:Well, yes, I'm looking at it here. So the the assembly did okay relocating city Hall to the Michael J. Burns Building. It's expected to take at least a year. They voted seven to two on it to to authorize negotiation and purchase the two floors of the bill, two floors of the bill from the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.
Speaker 10:Which I think is Gold Belt, but I'm not sure. Because I think it says Gold Belt PFD whatever on the or it did on the outside.
Speaker 2:Well the headline in the Juno Independent is that they are buying it from two floors of this, just two floors. So I think Gold Belt might be on other floors of that building But the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation was on two floors and now they are selling it, it looks like to they're negotiating that purchase.
Speaker 10:But it wasn't the state didn't own the building because my when I worked for the state, our main office was in that building on the Bottom Floor. Mhmm. And I understood one of the native corporations or somebody owned the building. I may be wrong.
Speaker 6:Mhmm. Mhmm.
Speaker 10:But but Yeah. That's why I was just thinking that if one is leasing our school, why we couldn't have you know, because the city doesn't wanna be out in the valley. Why we couldn't have maybe sold that to go toward maybe the cost of what we're bought what we wanna buy.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I think I think we're right there with it, caller. It's definitely a head scratcher as far as those decisions go. I wish we had a little more insight as far as how those decisions were made.
Speaker 10:And and I also wish, you know, that I would have been on the ball and retired that, maybe I would could have gotten the petition up to be voted on why you know, if the majority of people wanted it in the valley, the city, to to allow this the population to vote on that.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. Mhmm. And another You know,
Speaker 10:it's too late this year. You know, hindsight is
Speaker 20:Right.
Speaker 10:Whatever.
Speaker 2:And a a criticism in this article on the June Independent from Dave Hanna is the city should reassess how the property market has changed recently to determine if other sites are more suitable and that continuing to rent should be considered a viable option since repairs should be performed by landlords. So yeah, it definitely is as always a complicated situation but that's how the assembly has voted at this point.
Speaker 10:Yeah. Well, you for listening.
Speaker 2:Of
Speaker 10:course. I do appreciate your program.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 10:You listen every day.
Speaker 2:We we appreciate you. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 4:Okay. Bye. Bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. So we have another call. Alright. Good morning. You're on Problem Corner.
Speaker 4:Hey, morning. Heads up folks. That building does not belong to Hobart. We sold that years ago. I can't say what the amount was but that building was sold that belongs to the Alaska Permanent Fund.
Speaker 2:Exactly, okay. Thank you so much for confirming that. I really appreciate it. Right, bye. So one of the things I've been thinking about Justin in this, a lot of stuff going on as far as views and political views on both the national and a local level is that problem corner can be kind of a, it's kind of a letter to the editor of the airwaves.
Speaker 2:And if you just look at the latest Juno Empire that was published yesterday, there are several pros and cons letters to the editor about the propositions. So I urge people to go to good old print and just kind of, you can even look it up online. And sometimes looking at other people's arguments, if you will, about these things can help you make your own decision. And that's what it's all about. It is.
Speaker 2:In a democracy, you make your own decision. All right, we do have a couple calls on the line. Awesome. Good morning, you're on Problem Corner.
Speaker 8:Yeah. I was watching our statewide news last night.
Speaker 6:Mhmm.
Speaker 8:They were talking about the permanent front. Mhmm. I guess there's a guy going around or somebody going around in Anchorage for signatures to put it back to the way it was according to the way it was written up.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 8:But I was watching, you know, about four or five years ago, I was watching I always watched gavel to gavel when they have it on KTO. Mhmm. Mhmm. And there was a lady that spoke on there that were sitting at the on the legislature. I don't know why people don't watch gavel to gavel.
Speaker 8:You know, they that lady is the one that said we we should lower the amount we get from the permanent gift to the people and the permanent one for the future generation, and that's where our
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 8:Amount went down because they voted on it to lower what we were getting to save for future generation. We're thinking about the people today.
Speaker 2:Was what it's all about when Jay Hammond actually initiated the permanent fund years and years ago. Governor Jay Hammond. Sure.
Speaker 8:Yeah. I know Hammond loaded up, but there was a way that he was putting it up for the people that they would get that certain amount. But what I'm trying to tell you is this lady on gavel to gavel said, let's give them half or a little more than that and save the rest for the future generation.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 8:That's where our permanent went went down for the people. People need to start watching gavel to gavel to see what our legislatures are doing. That's why I said I have been always watch it. I'm a avid watcher through what's going on in our legislature around
Speaker 2:Thank you so much
Speaker 8:KTO. For
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for that reminder. Yeah, that's important. That's an important part of
Speaker 8:Okay, thank you for your program.
Speaker 2:Okay, thank you. All right, great reminder that right there is a resource where you can watch legislature in real time on Gavel to Gavel.
Speaker 3:And you can always rewatch them.
Speaker 2:They're on
Speaker 3:the website.
Speaker 2:Yep, on the website or on television. We have a couple more calls. Good morning, you're on problem corner.
Speaker 10:Hello.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 21:Live Yes,
Speaker 2:you're on problem corner. Good morning.
Speaker 4:Hey, do
Speaker 21:you hear Justin?
Speaker 4:Yes. Hello from Utah. Utah. Are you guys
Speaker 21:doing today? Hey. I wanna do a little little bit of bragging here today. Okay?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. What you got?
Speaker 4:Okay. After forty four years of smoking, I am now on my eighty ninth day, nicotine free.
Speaker 3:Oh, congrats.
Speaker 4:Almost three months. Smooth free now.
Speaker 21:I'm feeling a lot healthier.
Speaker 4:I feel a lot better.
Speaker 21:And I just wanted to say thank you
Speaker 4:very much for bringing back the intro music to the program. And bringing back such fond memories. Okay?
Speaker 21:I can still hear mister Nija's voice. I have nothing to say about the other guy. Anyway, guys, thanks for all that
Speaker 4:you do. Enjoy the rest of your day. Keep safe,
Speaker 21:and thank you for your program.
Speaker 2:You too. Congratulations.
Speaker 9:Thank you.
Speaker 2:And we do have another call.
Speaker 3:Calling from Utah. Wow.
Speaker 2:Wow. Good morning. You're on problem corner.
Speaker 22:Good morning. Thanks for your program. Thanks for taking the call. And by the way, I'm a yes, yes, and no voter on the, ballot measures. But the reason I wanted to call, and I certainly agree with with many of the callers who have called, I wanted to point out the assembly does work hard, but they earn the rank or and the disc ord that, is is going on at at their meetings.
Speaker 22:And and I'll give you the best example. The assembly took to the voters twice a new city hall, and the voters turned it down. So now they've decided to do it for cash, which doesn't require another constitution going to voters. But because the voters turned it down twice, they should take this, current proposal to to do the Burns Building, which, by the way, Sabatini says in his newspaper that it'll be an ongoing payment of $650,000 a year condo fees. But, anyway, they should take that to the voters because voters turned down a new city hall twice.
Speaker 22:So for good public process and transparency, they shouldn't go around the back door and say, well, then heck with the voters. I'll just put for cash. We'll just do it for cash. They should send that, take that also to the voters. So that's all I had to say.
Speaker 22:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Okay, thank you so much for calling. Well, it looks like city hall, the new city hall is not going to the voters this time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but what the last caller was saying is like, yeah, should have brought to the voters, like even though they're using it for cash and doesn't really qualify as a vodible instance, but should be able to vote and it's like, hey, this is what we want to use this money for. But honestly that there's so many processes to get that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. But also if you spend any time in that building, the old City Hall Building, it's just too old for people to work and exist It's not, it seems like it's really not healthy at this point.
Speaker 3:It's been a while since I've been in City Hall.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Maybe it's a, I don't know, twice bitten once shy for the assembly on this one. But we do have a Seahawks game coming up today on KI
Speaker 3:I'm Am I right? Is that actually on our Sports Station 1 We Hundred 7.9, the are broadcasting Seahawks and Mariners. We did get an email on that. We are having some weirdness going on with our satellite receivers for that, for our programming. And so I know we had a couple of comments about this past weekend game, but due to the weather with the wind and rain, especially with our transmitters and all that, sometimes I've noticed the past few days is kind of not choppy, but definitely kind of they'll be talking and then keep going and keep going.
Speaker 3:And so it's kind of like that a little bit. But yeah, we will be broadcasting today's Seahawks game. I believe that kicks off at two p. M. Over on 107.9.
Speaker 3:Hawk, I'll be monitoring that. So hopefully, we won't have any issues for this game today. And yeah, but we are aware and we are gonna make it happen. So yes, Seahawks and Mariners are living on 107.9 The Hawk.
Speaker 2:Well, Justin, I just wanna thank you and all the engineers and people who get out in the, literally in the field to keep us on the air, especially this time of year. And we do have another call. Good morning, you're on Problem Corner.
Speaker 10:Hey, good morning. Know, Floyd Dryden is close to the people, has lots of parking. There's plenty of outdoor recreation space and place for employees to have lunch outside in nice weather. The library there is perfect for assembly meetings. There's lots of infrastructure upgrades over the years.
Speaker 10:They probably need a little bit more work. But if the assembly previous ones and now had listened to the people, I think city hall would be perfect at Floyd Dryden and not what they're doing now. They have so much extra money. They can not go to the voters and it makes people rather unhappy, I guess I should say. So I'm voting yes, no on the propositions.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 10:Have a great rest of the day. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. And folks, for those of you who are just getting familiar with these propositions, she says, yes, yes, no, our caller. And I think our caller before that as well. So we have three propositions on the ballot Voting is due by October 7. So it's coming right up.
Speaker 2:You can get that ballot that you got in the mail and fill it out and put it into Dropbox in your precinct. Or you can also go vote in person and the vote centers are open. The vote center actually opened on Monday of this week. You can go to City Hall Assembly Chambers, Monday through Friday from 8AM to 04:30PM to vote. You can also vote at Assembly Chambers on Election Day, October 7, 7AM to 8PM.
Speaker 2:Mendenhall Valley Public Library is another voting place if you want to vote in person. That started also this week, Monday through Thursday, 10AM to 6PM, the Valley Library for voting, Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 5PM, and of course election day, October 7 from 7AM to 8PM. So lots of ways you can vote by mail or in person. And some people are saying this is the most consequential election in many years because that prop one would cap our property taxes at nine mills down from the limit cap right now of 12. Prop two would exempt sales tax for food and for utilities in the CBJ.
Speaker 2:And prop three would have a raise in the sales tax over the course of the visitor center to capitalize on those dollars from mainly cruise ship passengers to 7.5%, a raise like a lot of different communities in Southeast Alaska already have, but would go down to 3% from October to April for the population here who lives here year round to give a break. And the thing about if you are thinking about these, the proposition two and three, it is said that the guide from the CBJ says that if you vote two, you should probably also vote yes. If you vote the opposite, say you vote yes on two and three, you wanna vote yes on both. Otherwise there could be a $10,000,000 hole in our budget. And we do have another call.
Speaker 2:Good morning, you're on problem corner.
Speaker 10:Good morning. I just wanted to welcome my friend William. He came over from Gustavus. Let's show him a good time, Juno.
Speaker 3:Awesome. Well, welcome to Juno William from Gustavus. All
Speaker 2:right. Welcome William.
Speaker 3:Hope you have a good stay. I've actually never visited Gustavus. Have you ever wandered over there?
Speaker 2:I have, but not in quite a while but I do have a fair amount of friends who have houses in Gustavus or It's summer really different, because here we have our Alpine Spectacular Mountains. There you're at the mouth of Glacier Bay, another kind of spectacular. I mean, it's just one spectacular or another around here, right? Wherever you go. But it's a pretty cool community.
Speaker 3:Oh, I definitely have to venture out there one of these days. Well, they do that big rock show, Burning Pines out there during the summertime. I've done that twice a year. Past summer was their second year for that Burning Pines show.
Speaker 2:Burning Pines, love it.
Speaker 3:I might need to go out there that next one. I've seen clips of it and it seems Yeah. Like a lot of
Speaker 2:Go for it, music I
Speaker 3:will.
Speaker 2:And we do have another call. Good morning. You're on Problem Corner.
Speaker 4:Problem Corner. Hello?
Speaker 8:Hello? Hello?
Speaker 3:Lost him. Give us a callback. Got a a couple more minutes left of the program. If it's short and sweet, we can get you on. Just to go back, we did have a couple of calls with that first call with, I believe it was Charles.
Speaker 3:It sounded like Charles. He had that quarter, the 2023, that was a misprint. In Cod We Trust, he's asking $150 for that.
Speaker 2:It's not in Cod We Trust, right? In God We Trust. And we do have another call. We'll get back to this Good after the morning, you're on Problem Corner. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Of course, the city's gonna say vote yes, yes, on the last two. The idea of these propositions is to point to the city that we're tired of them spending like there's no tomorrow. I mean, yeah, they come up 10,000,000 short, so maybe they ought to quit spending money like it's theirs. You know? I I really believe that people are tired of that.
Speaker 3:No. Yeah. We hear you.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:You know? I mean, you know, if they didn't have an extra if you give them an extra 10,000,000, they'll spend an extra 10,000,000. Give them an extra 20, they'll come up with something they wanna spend it on.
Speaker 6:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:And that's, you know
Speaker 8:Yeah. That's what people are
Speaker 4:tired of. You know, the idea of Floyd Dryden as a city hall. It didn't have to be a city hall, but it could have in house all the engineering, the planning, the zoning, the places people have to go. And rather than go downtown and fight tourists and all that, they could have gone to Floyd Dryden. You know?
Speaker 4:But, no, we had to have it all together.
Speaker 2:But but
Speaker 4:We could have it.
Speaker 2:Right. Right. But have they have they put forth has someone at the city put forth their their reasons why they're not going for somewhere like Floyd Dryden, for example?
Speaker 4:They they said it would cost too much more than a new building to to put the city in there. But yet, you know, cubicles are not that expensive, but they couldn't make it at Taj Mahal without spending a lot of money. You know, the city in the past the City Hall right now is used to be the fire hall when I was a kid. And now they they move you know, built a new fire hall there next to this gas station. And when they did that, the city hall moved in there.
Speaker 4:You know? They used what they had. But the new assembly and the new leadership doesn't wanna do that. You know? People have said, no.
Speaker 4:We don't want you to build a Taj Mahal. You know? And when the schools went empty, it was the perfect time.
Speaker 6:Boy, Dryden, it's just empty.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah. I know. But they they, you know, they put it up and they say, well, childcare is more important than that. I you know? Yeah.
Speaker 4:We we you know, it would have been prime to move the offices of the city, not the maybe assembly and not the, you know, you could have had the city manager, the city clerk, and had a city hall, little bit, a little city hall building downtown, you know, but you didn't have, you know, not utilizing that space for all the other offices. Right.
Speaker 2:Well, thanks for calling with your thoughts on this. It's actually after twelve noon, so we're gonna have to go. But thanks for listening and thanks for your call. All right, Justin, it looks like we're wrapping up another day.
Speaker 3:I'll re echo some of those calls or the item that we did have for sale today, tomorrow with Kenny Solomon Gross. One last big happy birthday shout out from your grandparents, Devon, I think it was Devon, right? Yeah, so happy birthday to you and I hope you guys have a good rest of your Thursday. Katie Bosler hosting Problem Corner on Thursday, and of course me, Justin, hanging out.
Speaker 2:Right, and actually will be in California for the next few weeks. One of the things visiting my 95 year old dad who is kind of, you know, he's towards on the other side of life at this point, not quite the other side, But anyway, I look forward to seeing you all again around the third week on the radio, around the October.
Speaker 21:All right.
Speaker 3:I'll miss you, Katie.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'll miss you too. Take care everyone.
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