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Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner with Lance and Wade. Hey. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. How are you guys doing?
Speaker 3:I'm good, man. How are you?
Speaker 2:I am blessed, man. I am
Speaker 3:blessed. Hey. Let's turn those that volume down just a hair, just a tiny notch and coming across nice and loud. Well, welcome to Problem Corner, everybody. We do not have phones yet, although the man in the hat is still in the building trying to get the phones into the Prom Corner studio.
Speaker 3:What is that number, Ken Lance?
Speaker 2:It is 9075861801800 or air@kinyradio.com.
Speaker 3:Yeah. That'll get you on air with us. Alright. Well, what's going on to this morning, Lance? You got any emails or any text to that have come through already?
Speaker 3:I actually do. Okay. But you remember, you gotta keep your face in the microphone. You can't look at the screen when you're trying to do that.
Speaker 2:Oh, just trying to click a little bit. Alright. But alright. We have for sale a 2,025 Subaru Legacy Premium, Pristine condition with less than 1,500 actual miles. The wife can't drive anymore, so they gotta sell.
Speaker 2:Transferable warranty was 29,000. Today. Today is 26,000 or best offer, 9073642616. So we got that one down. So and you hear about anything going on in the community this this week?
Speaker 3:So this weekend, Okbae Bible Church held a bike roundup at Groening Park. And what they do, Gary is a wonderful volunteer, and he's done this a few years. This was my first year involved, but, I joined him yesterday afternoon. Volunteers from the church had come out. We had a couple of bike stations, and
Speaker 4:we,
Speaker 3:there was four guys, including myself, repairing kids' bikes. All the kids that live around Groening Park, and then other volunteers from the church were cooking up hot dogs and hamburgers. It was a fun Saturday afternoon or was it Sunday?
Speaker 2:It's always great to give,
Speaker 3:isn't Sunday afternoon. Mhmm. Man, I tell you what, when you get a kid's bike working again, the number of these kids that were riding bikes that just needed like, five or ten minutes worth of work and some air in their tires. Uh-huh. And then all of sudden, were riding functional bikes.
Speaker 3:It was it was a really fun time.
Speaker 2:It's really awesome that you guys are able to do that, especially since it's summertime, and that's when people ride their bikes.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I would describe this weather as summertime, but, yes, we do have lots of kids out there riding their bikes. It was, like, 55 and, just a little Juno drizzle. No big deal. But kids were out there. Everybody had smiles on their face.
Speaker 3:That's my favorite part of those events that said everybody's always in a good mood when you go to, like, one of those local Juno events. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Good job to everybody.
Speaker 3:It was fun. So thank you to Gary and Brandel and AJ were the other bike techs that were out there. Awesome. Getting stuff squared away.
Speaker 2:Doing things for the people. We got we got we got something.
Speaker 3:Alright.
Speaker 2:Alright. Karen Lipson. For sale, number one, extendable for mica dining or craft table. Unique shape, very sturdy, measures 45 long at 36 wide, comes with two twelve inch leaves making it a maximum length of 69. 50 or best offer.
Speaker 2:Entertainment center. The two built in cupboards are great for keeping daily clutter. The shelves in the center can be removed to accommodate a larger TV. Measures 48 high by 50 wide by 17 deep. 50 are best offer.
Speaker 2:Number three, twenty four, Vizio flat screen with remote. 30 or best offer. Number four, airline approved dog kennel. 30 long by 20 wide at 23 high, 30 your best offer. Cat kennel, $10 your best offer.
Speaker 2:Small computer desk, 42 wide by 19 and a half deep, $20. Twin bed in good shape, includes frame, headboard, box spring, mattress, forty year best offer, four shelf, sturdy vinyl wire rack, great in kitchen, pantry or or garage, 40 high by 12 deep by 23 wide, $10 best offer. Wood shelves, 30 wide by 30 high, I'm sorry, my bad, by 13 deep, $10 or best offer. And a small wood table, $10 are best offer. All items are negotiable.
Speaker 2:Call 789-2751. I'm sorry. 789-2751. If you leave a message, Karen will return your call in twenty four hours. So, man, those are some pretty good things.
Speaker 2:I'm kinda curious. We got a question right here. Thank you for this question.
Speaker 3:Is the city gonna do any stings things special as far as fireworks for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary? My understanding is that the city did approve the unorthodox firework acquisition procedure. Most of the time when the city gives money away to do something that would there's not a lot of similar things to fireworks, but gives public funds to a volunteer organization. It has to be a registered volunteer organization. Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:It's kind of one of the requirements for the city to give up public funds, meaning your tax money. The guys that put on the fireworks show and have been putting on the fireworks show here in Juneau, they are not part of an official formalized volunteer organization. They're not official. Uh-huh. And so it's tricky for the city to give to fork over money, taxpayer money, to nonofficial organizations like these fireworks.
Speaker 3:However, they seem to have been able to do it again, and the fourth of July parade seems to be have the theme of the two hundred and fifty years. And I definitely think that we're gonna get a good fireworks show out of that.
Speaker 2:I sure will.
Speaker 3:But every single fund dollar that the city is spending has extra scrutiny on it this year. So the it's funny how everybody said cut the budget, but then don't cut any of the services. And so, man, unless the city does something, they just passed the budget, but they used a huge amount of savings. And I don't remember what all the figures are. Next year, they won't have that savings, and they certainly won't have the lapses that added to savings because everybody cut their budget, made it a little bit tighter or as tight as they could.
Speaker 3:We could be looking at no fireworks in the future if do we wanna put fireworks up against, like, school funding or homelessness services or, you know, any of those things that are like that. But if our budget stays as tight as it is without any revenue change, that could be one of the things that we're facing. We have fireworks this year.
Speaker 2:But you don't know what'll happen next year. Unless something changes, we
Speaker 3:will have even less slash next year. Absolutely.
Speaker 2:If well, am I out of pocket if I think, what if we funded ourselves? What if Well, you are funding it yourselves
Speaker 3:with taxpayer money right now, Lance.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I know. I know.
Speaker 3:So you mean, like, extra money, like, extra taxes to fund fireworks? The community just voted no on that type of spending.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 3:That's what the vote was in October. The city went from a a policy that allowed for lapses to create some savings, which allowed some flexibility in in what was funded. Mhmm. And when you remove all that flexibility because everybody's budget is, you know, completely tight and everybody's underfunded, you know, unless we
Speaker 2:yeah. You see
Speaker 3:where it's going.
Speaker 2:I see where it's going. But well, we got we got another message. Oh, feel free to, email at air@kinyradio.com or text or we'll be hopefully, week you'll be able to call, but you can text us at (907) 586-1800. We have a message from Doug, and Doug is looking for a kitty or a cow. Oh, kittens.
Speaker 2:So please call Doug at (907) 796-9102. Doug, if you're out there listening, they have a lot of kittens and cats at the
Speaker 3:Juno Animal
Speaker 2:Rescue. Animal Rescue that are looking for homes.
Speaker 3:They definitely have cats looking for homes at the Juno Animal Rescue.
Speaker 2:Yes. They do. Yes. They do. So you go go for go for that.
Speaker 2:So that
Speaker 3:means that anybody, almost anybody that needs a cat could go to Juno Animal Rescue and could get a cat or a kitten today.
Speaker 2:Yeah. They could. They could do
Speaker 3:it. That's right. So if you're
Speaker 2:in a Or dog. If you
Speaker 3:yeah. They probably got would imagine
Speaker 2:They got dogs, birds. Bet you
Speaker 3:imagine they do have dogs. I don't know that they have birds and snakes all the time, but they have had unique pets. I think when I was there, they had a chinchilla maybe for
Speaker 2:a little bit. I saw an iguana there.
Speaker 3:Okay. Yeah. When you get a pet when pets are no longer able to stay in their owners' homes, sometimes they end up at Juno Animal Rescue.
Speaker 2:I like to to take, some of my clients to the animal shelter to see the different kind of animals.
Speaker 3:Oh, almost like a little zoo.
Speaker 2:Pretty much. Yeah.
Speaker 3:We need a zoo in Juneau. I would love to see a Jew a zoo here.
Speaker 2:Oh, man. That would be awesome. Wouldn't it be?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Because you could have all kinds of southeast animals. Oh. Like, just Alaskan animals in the zoo, and people would like it. People would wanna go see it.
Speaker 3:I mean, if you could see a a black bear, even though we can see them in our trash cans all you know, weekly if we chose to during the summer, but imagine the bear habitat. That'd be awesome.
Speaker 2:That would be very cool. Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Man. I You want a zoo now? I know.
Speaker 2:I wanna yes, sir. I would love to have a zoo. I I'm gonna, tell you guys, come on. Send the emails in. Tell us about your community events.
Speaker 2:Tell us about the things you have for sale. A I I'm sorry. Air@k9atk90radio.com?
Speaker 3:Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Speaker 2:Okay. K I n y radio dot com. K I
Speaker 3:Yeah. N You gotta say it that way.
Speaker 2:Okay. K I n y radio dot com or text (907) 586-1800. But I do have a quick question before we get into the news. Wade, have you been to the new casino?
Speaker 3:I have not gone to the new casino, but I have seen pictures. And I know that they're operating, and they had a shuttle during celebration. I don't know if they still have that shuttle available for folks, but apparently, apparently, can go up there and have a good time, do a little bit of gambling.
Speaker 2:I I heard. I I don't know what's going on. I'm not a big gambler, but, you know, I hear it's something to go check out.
Speaker 3:You know what? That is worth going and checking out and, especially a brand new casino. I bet you that they've got all kinds of shiny things up there.
Speaker 2:I bet you they do. I bet you they do.
Speaker 3:Lance, I did think of a community event that I did wanna share with everybody.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:On Thursday evening here at the Juno Media Center, not called the radio center, but the Juno Media Center, they had their grand opening for the community. And the Juno Media Center reached out and invited all of the, businesses and city officials, all the people that they, that advertise on the show, the people that have been guests on Capital Chat, podcasts. And so Thursday night was
Speaker 2:they had
Speaker 3:a little shindig here in the radio station and kind of the who's who at Juno showed up and to say, the grand reopening of the Media First Juno Media Center. So congratulations to Cliff.
Speaker 2:Cliff and Lisa Cliff.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Cliff and Lisa threw a heck of a good party on Thursday night here at the radio station.
Speaker 2:Oh, man. I didn't I missed it.
Speaker 3:You missed it. We were announcing I'm pretty sure we announced it on the radio.
Speaker 2:I was working. And so I had to
Speaker 3:leave work to go do it, but, yeah, I get you.
Speaker 2:But, man, what do we got? We got we still need you guys to text or call 586-1800 or air@kinyradio.com. So come on, people. Let me know what's
Speaker 3:going on. You could probably read one or two of those texts from Fridays. I bet you they'll give us a topic or two.
Speaker 2:Alright. Let's see. Let's see what we got here. Let's see what we got here. What we have?
Speaker 2:Ah. Julie Coffin says next Juno flood advocates solution meeting is 06/25/2026 at Chapel By The Lake. We need the the community to attend the more they can get with flood fighting and pressuring the army corps to get a move on with a lake tap. It can be accomplished in a year or two, not ten to fifteen years. They need more support from the community to reach out to lobbyists and senators to push for a faster solution.
Speaker 2:Please join them for the meeting to learn what's happening. And you can feel free to call their office at 586-3630 for a dis for assistance. I'm sorry. Yeah. What do you think about that, Wade?
Speaker 3:We are going to be dealing with the effects of the glacial lake outburst flooding for years to come. I completely applaud the citizens initiative groups. The more, attention that can be brought to the catastrophe or the situation, the better. The problem that we're facing is that the Lake Tap conservative estimates were, like, $50,000,000. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And what's a good way to describe this? I don't wanna say that I don't wanna sound like anti Juno, but when you compare natural disasters, the one of the things that we learned is FEMA has enough money for three natural disasters, maybe four natural disasters a year. And in Juneau, we want our natural disaster to be the most important one. Mhmm. But we have to put our natural disaster up against the other natural disasters that are taken that happen in our country.
Speaker 3:Mhmm. And that you're just fighting a math equation at that point. And so, yes, we wanna keep pushing core of engineers to come up with solutions, actionable solutions, but that has been a component that has gotten in our way. It's definitely been a component of preventing maybe a $50,000,000 federal subsidy already. You know, instead of four hundred four hundred homes being impacted that one year, if it's 4,000 homes, maybe maybe we would have received more of that funding.
Speaker 3:We would receive faster funding. And so by no means is am I trying to downplay or dismiss, but we have to be realistic in our conversation with the Army Corps of Engineer because while it's the biggest catastrophe to us, it's not necessarily the biggest catastrophe facing them.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And, you know, I definitely want a permanent solution, but we really have to figure out how to bridge that gap. Like, how can we get it to where Juneau is at the top of the list for a $100,000,000, community protection project? Okay. Right? Going on the same time, we're asking the state for a half $1,000,000,000, North Douglas Crossing.
Speaker 3:You know? And so every component is part of it. It's all part of the conversation.
Speaker 2:Man, I guess it's a lot of pieces to put together.
Speaker 3:Yes. The one thing that I well, no. I'm just I'm not gonna go that direction. We'll skip that part. But, Lance, you were trying to say we got a commercial break coming up.
Speaker 3:We take that between 11:29 and 11:30. Are we getting close there?
Speaker 2:We are at 11:27.
Speaker 3:Alright. Well, you got time to read one more text.
Speaker 2:Okay. I got one quick one to read. Is Way gonna be staying on at Problem Corner?
Speaker 3:No. We're trying to get everybody where they've got their phones working so that Lance can stay in here and take your Problem Corner calls on Monday, and we got Connor who'll be taking calls on Tuesday.
Speaker 2:I think got we got and who else?
Speaker 3:It might be Wednesdays with Wade. We have Kate on Thursday and Nana on Friday.
Speaker 2:Oh, man. That's like a lot of people. You I remember you was keeping it down for, like, a long time. Just you.
Speaker 3:Yes. And it turns out that a daily commitment from eleven to twelve is like a big ass for folks.
Speaker 2:Yes. Well, most people got it. We have to go to work, Wade.
Speaker 3:I made it part of mine. There you go.
Speaker 2:Alright. So we're gonna we're gonna go off air for a little bit, and we'll be back with you. Please send in your emails to air@kinyradio.com or text or well, you can call. (907) 586-1800. So we're gonna get started in just a few seconds.
Speaker 2:Anything you wanna say, Wei, before we take a little break?
Speaker 3:We'll be right back with more Problem Corner on KINY. Hit the button and put the pot up.
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Speaker 1:Now back to Problem Corner where our community meets to talk, trade, share.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to Problem Corner. I am so happy to be here with you,
Speaker 3:and we're here with Wade. Good afternoon. Or morning still.
Speaker 2:Good morning. We had we did have a few call ins. Text. Text. Text.
Speaker 3:People are text.
Speaker 2:People are texting. And we're trying to find out if the phone lines are operating. If you could try giving a call to (907) 586-1800. We've had a text come in and we they're a little confused as to why the Fieldhouse is on the budget for the city when it was built with private money. Because they regardless of how it
Speaker 3:was built, the building was given to the city so the city could keep on the ongoing operations. So it is a city owned, facility, and as they were making cuts, they had to look and see what could be cut, and that's on the list. Alright. So let's go ahead and try and answer the phone. Hit that button that I was showing you.
Speaker 2:Alright. Alright. Pot it up. Alright. And then Oh.
Speaker 2:Listen. Alright. It's not it's not working. Okay. Then draw it.
Speaker 2:That's what I was trying to do. Alright. Okay. So
Speaker 3:I guess it didn't work.
Speaker 2:It didn't work. But thanks for trying. We're we're still working on the telephone. But please text or call 586-1800
Speaker 3:Or We might not tell them to call if if we're getting that dial tone when you try to hit that button. But send a text. 586-1800. So that way we can answer your questions like why did the field house make the budget cut list? Yes.
Speaker 3:Because it's operations, ongoing operations.
Speaker 2:And also somebody sent in, they want Wade. Everybody loves Wade. I love Wade. People down
Speaker 3:the street love Wade. I don't know if it's everybody.
Speaker 2:Love you. I love you,
Speaker 3:I appreciate that. I love you too, Lance. Alright. And and how about any emails? We got any emails coming
Speaker 2:We got a twin bed for sale. It's clean. Hardly used. Cost F585659622.
Speaker 3:Who's speaking 100
Speaker 2:with and $20.
Speaker 3:What's that phone number again? You got a
Speaker 2:565-9622.
Speaker 3:Is it a long distance or an Alaska number? It's 907. Oh, okay. Alright. I just didn't recognize the 562 number.
Speaker 3:Alright.
Speaker 2:They also have a nice bookshelf. It's clean for $50. Don't forget, give a call. (907) 565-9622.
Speaker 3:Call Stephanie. Alright. Alright. Did anybody have a successful garage sale this weekend? I thought really hard about having mine, but I woke up and it was a little dreary.
Speaker 2:You have garage sales, bro?
Speaker 3:No. I don't have garage sales often, but as I was sharing before, my garage had not been cleaned out since before I got elected, and so my garage is full of stuff. The only way I could do is start getting rid of some of
Speaker 2:it. What you got, bro? What you got?
Speaker 3:The usual garage sale junk.
Speaker 2:You got video games? Do you have comic books? Do you have
Speaker 3:baseball cards? You know what? I do have some video games. I got some Xbox stuff. But baseball cards, you have baseball cards on a garage sale.
Speaker 3:Not good baseball cards.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. That's true. I know where you live, man. I might have to come over there.
Speaker 3:I'll let you know. Alright. 586-1800 send us a text. You know what? Try and send us a call anyways.
Speaker 3:Maybe we'll try we'll keep trying to answer that phone call. 5861805861800. Send a text or try and call. Lance, if those if those lights light up, let me know. I'm gonna come and
Speaker 2:try this. There's one lighting up right now. You wanna give it a try?
Speaker 4:Yeah. Go ahead and pop them up.
Speaker 2:Alright. Hello? It's not working.
Speaker 3:Alright. We try to
Speaker 2:We try. We'll try it again.
Speaker 3:We'll try again tomorrow.
Speaker 4:No calls, but send a text. Send a text to us. Alright.
Speaker 3:We're gonna get a big enough hammer to fix this someday soon. I promise.
Speaker 2:I believe it. Alright. I believe it.
Speaker 3:Where's the man in the hat? He's we need this fixed. Alright.
Speaker 2:Okay. Please come on. Send some texts. 586-1800.
Speaker 3:Lance, last time I talked with you, you were helping Eliza Valentine host a an event to help the food bank.
Speaker 2:Yes. What
Speaker 3:is your next event that you're gonna be hosting to help out It's one of the community
Speaker 2:not so much hosting event. I my car took a dive, so I had to get another car, so I had to stop taking food to the warming shelter on the So now I have a car, so I'll be back to taking food to the warming shelter on the weekends.
Speaker 3:What kind of food do you take down there? Oh, man.
Speaker 2:I made shrimp fettuccine. I've made ribs. I've made fried chicken. I've made stir fry. Hold on.
Speaker 2:So you just make dinner at
Speaker 3:home and bring it down there?
Speaker 2:I make I make yeah. I I buy enough food to feed 50 people, and I take it down there, and they chomp down. I actually got an email from Dave, and he was asking me, when am I coming back? Oh, wow. So I was like, I I think maybe next weekend, I will start back to cooking food for the warming shelter and taking them down.
Speaker 2:Since I came here in 2004, I've always had something to do with the Glory Hall Glory Hall? Glory Hall. Glory Hall or whatever way I could help people.
Speaker 3:And Forget Me Not Manor, their associated supportive housing. Now Lance, I know that you've worked there. I know that you volunteered there. I know that you've brought them food. That's really great that you look out for the vulnerable citizens of our community.
Speaker 2:I do. And so do you. How you know, let's not get on any soapbox, mister mister Bryson. How many people have you fed with with Subway when you were able to? How many how many people have you helped financially, including myself, that needed help?
Speaker 2:So I I don't
Speaker 3:know that I could give, like, real stats on that. I estimated one time roughly how many sandwiches I had given away. It's been a few years, so I don't know how accurate this toll is, but I've given away at least 10,006 inch subs I know. That I had just not charged people for over the course of twenty five years. That's probably a low estimate.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. I know you do. You're you're a good dude, man. You do a lot of good things for people, man. I'm not Let's keep let's keep rolling.
Speaker 2:Okay. Let's keep going.
Speaker 3:Alright. 586-1800. Send that text, k I n y radio dot com. Send the email. You got any emails or text, Lance?
Speaker 2:No. But I do have something that is going on for Father's Day. Oh, yeah. At the Riverview Senior Living
Speaker 3:home. Taking dad there for Father's Day.
Speaker 2:Okay. They're having a car show in their parking lot.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's right. I heard about the fancy car show.
Speaker 2:That's where they're doing it. I don't have much information now, but I will send more information for tomorrow.
Speaker 3:Sunday on Father's Day.
Speaker 2:Right? Sunday on Father's Day. And is Father's Day this Sunday? It is this oh, wait a minute. Is it I It's this Sunday or Well, the the twenty first is Sunday.
Speaker 2:Okay. So Father's Day is on the twentieth. Right? Something like that. Because my birthday is on the twenty first.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay. Oh, well, you get to go to a car show for your birthday. Happy birthday, Lance.
Speaker 2:No, man. I'm gonna stay home and barbecue and eat. Oh, well, that sounds good too.
Speaker 3:I do like a good car show. And the fact that they're putting it on there at the Riverview Senior facility, I think that is a great location to go look at some really cool cars.
Speaker 2:Yes. It is. It is. It's it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3:Well, I tell you what, if, you know of other Father's Day events kinda like the Gold Rush days, could that be that's going on this weekend too. Right?
Speaker 2:It is, but I don't know the particulars of the information. Do you?
Speaker 3:Gold Rush Day is Saturday and Sunday, and it usually coincides with Father's Day. The number of times that Gold Rush Days has fallen on Father's Day is high. And the one time I was down there and the the mom was telling the story. She said, well, I asked my husband what he wanted to do for Father's Day, and he says, well, I wanna go to Gold Rush Days and and chop logs and and drill. And dad had a good time at Father's Day.
Speaker 3:Man. At the Gold Rush days. He did? Yeah. Well, I think all dads have a good time at Gold Rush days.
Speaker 2:Well, that's pretty I've never I've never attended. You haven't gone to Gold Rush Days? I have not. I I haven't. Lads don't
Speaker 3:say stuff like that out loud, man. People think you're not really into Juno. Yes. You gotta go check out Gold Rush Days. They have the the mining celebration is on Saturday, and the logging celebration is on Sunday.
Speaker 3:And you get to watch all these events and these the loggers and the miners come out and see the very professions that helped, I'll say, well, build the community Uh-huh. Because you needed both of those guys. And to see that historical context come to life in in Goldrush celebration, it's just a good time. And so not only are you getting to watch these really fun events, when was the last time you saw two guys racing to chop a tree down? I Exactly.
Speaker 3:No. Now they don't use real trees. They use logs and section of them, but watching people go to town or the Jack and Jill where they're both using a saw and cutting a 18 inch cookie in, like, twenty four seconds or something crazy like that, it's just a good time, man. And all of the wonderful food vendors that do events like that, they all show up. So you get some of Juno's finest food at the, or maybe that's not the right way to say it.
Speaker 3:Some Juno's tastiest food at Gold Rush Days.
Speaker 2:Finest food.
Speaker 3:Yeah. They've And they so they always have a good time. They have power equipment there so you can, like, go around a big bulldozer or something. You can watch people use, mining equipment. You can they've got the the popcorn guys always there, brewing up a fresh batch of popcorn.
Speaker 3:Yeah. You name it, they have it down there. It's it's just a good time. They got tons of stuff for the kids too. That one makes it such a great family event.
Speaker 2:That good. Yeah. I'm sure that you you have kids. Right?
Speaker 3:I have five kids, Lance.
Speaker 2:Oh my god. I mean I thought you knew that. I've only I I there's I've You've met someone, mate. Okay. And then you have a one that's she's got a gentle spirit.
Speaker 2:I forget what her name is.
Speaker 3:Mary Ellen is.
Speaker 2:Mary she's got she's real yeah. She's got a really gentle spirit. And I don't I haven't met I don't remember meeting the other ones.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:No. But I'm old, so I forget things. Alright. But I got something that I wanna put out there. Local responders need your help.
Speaker 2:The assembly is considered closing down the Douglas Fire Station to become law landlords and generate a few dollars to plug this huge giant budget hole. Douglas Fire Station is a part of Juneau, especially on Douglas Island. And if you support your local firefighters and their mission, contact your assembly. Ask them not to undermine the department that is always there and maintain Douglas Firehouse. Okay?
Speaker 2:Please give a call (907) 586-3630 if you wanna help support that. Lance, I'm kind
Speaker 3:of glad that you read that because one of the first things that you mentioned was the fireworks. And I was mentioning it's a little bit better to have a city that doesn't have to decide between closing a fire department or having a fourth of July celebration with fireworks.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And that's kind of the predicament that we put our local municipal leaders in. And so that question's being asked again right now.
Speaker 2:Are they really closing it down?
Speaker 3:Well, I think that it made the budget this year because they used all the savings, that the city had so that they didn't have to make all of the reductions, that were necessary, to balance the budget. They had some savings left over. Next year, that will not be the case. And so let's say that no financial fixes come this way. Let's say that not another nickel of revenue comes to the city, that the city decides that they don't wanna expedite, Huna Totem building their dock, which could create More revenue.
Speaker 3:Tremendous amount of additional property tax. They don't want gold belt to build. They wanna, you know, drag their permits, make them take two years longer, three years longer. That's economic activity.
Speaker 2:Could I ask a question, Wayne? Yeah. But if they have this new dock that they're trying to build, that'll bring in more cash. Right?
Speaker 3:Absolutely. It will improve economic conditions. And but we fight to all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. That I guess that's life. Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Anything is it this is probably a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask you anyway. Alright. Being that we're living in an age where money is Harder and harder to collect. Harder and harder, is it possible for the community to help to fund some of the things that are being taken away if they choose It
Speaker 3:was funded through a tax base. So take the pool, for example. The pool has cost recovery. That means that they collect roughly 10 to 15% of the revenue that their operating expenses are. And so that is a way that you could look at it.
Speaker 3:You could say, how about we just have everybody pay the real price of what it costs to operate the downtown pool? So instead of paying seven or eight or nine dollars depending on what ticket setting that you're at, you could go and pay $40 per person
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:For a ticket. And then, yes, absolutely, citizen funds would keep the public pool open without relying on a tax base
Speaker 2:I know that. Tax subsidy. Agencies like the company I work for, Tides, as well as Reach, take a lot of their recipients there as well as the schools could take their their Oh, yeah. Students there. So, like, that's something that's the Sonocost needed.
Speaker 3:Nope. So what happens, Lance, right now, because of let's just take the downtown pool, and I'm using pre COVID numbers, pre pool renovation numbers. But every time a person went swimming, they paid $7. Mhmm. Every time a person went swimming, the city paid $35 to cover the operating expenses.
Speaker 3:That was the subsidy breakdown. If you took the number of visits divided by the or no. The amount of subsidy divided by the number of unique visits Uh-huh. And you were at the city subsidizes pool tickets by $35 a ticket every time somebody goes to use the downtown pool. So what you're saying out loud, Lance, is we could either have people pay $42, every time they wanna go swimming, and that could be per day, and that would cover the whole cost and then the pool would not be in jeopardy of losing its city subsidy, which would then cause it to close.
Speaker 3:We decided as a community a long time ago that we are going to use city tax money to fund recreation activities including swimming, hiking, and, skiing. And the city subsidizes those park and rec activities so that way when a skier goes skiing in in the Juneau Mountain, they're not paying a $110 for a lift ticket that day. And when somebody goes swimming, they're paying $7 or $8 instead of $42 to go swimming that day. Mhmm. So you're not wrong.
Speaker 3:Citizens could pay. Maybe we just do it volunteer. Yeah. So if you go to Eagle Crest or you go to the swim pool and you wanna pay your full what it really truly cost to operate the pool or the ski resort and make it a volunteer, you could pay the, real cost on, a volunteer basis, and then anybody that couldn't do it could still pay the subsidized price.
Speaker 2:That would be that would work, wouldn't it?
Speaker 3:How many people do you think that goes skiing up at Eagle Crest are gonna be like, I could pay $49, I could buy my season pass, or I could volunteer to pay a $110 per ticket to go skiing at Eagle Crest? Okay. You have a point.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'm just a little Alright.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So instead of, doing that, the way that the city has viewed parks and rec is that they use tax money to then subsidize the different recreation activities. So, yes, the you could have it where the citizens who utilize those activities could volunteer to pay a little bit more, and that could offset the city subsidy. But you see what dollar figures we're talking now, and you see how difficult it'd
Speaker 2:be to connect those dots. Yeah. It's it's hard, man. It's it's hard. It's alright.
Speaker 3:I spoke with somebody over the end of the week weekend and connected to the city budget. Mhmm. Lots of experience, lots of connection to it. Hands down, the toughest city budget they've had to pass in years. Years.
Speaker 2:Really?
Speaker 3:Yeah. It is a heck of a lot easier to pass a city budget when you have a little bit of extra money. Passing a city budget when you have a little less
Speaker 2:It's probably a little bit harder.
Speaker 3:It's way harder. Spreading around the little bit of extra money, million dollars that you can give to the different organizations Uh-huh. That ask for it, that's a way different conversation than reducing city services by $12,000,000 because now you're touching every you're negatively impacting every city service as opposed to last year, city services weren't negatively impacted and the community was like, hey, can you give our can you build a lift, an elevator in the field house so that way, the handicapped individuals can use the track. Uh-huh. Is that a fair thing to do with public funds or no?
Speaker 3:It's a public it's a public owned facility. That's Exactly. These are all very very
Speaker 2:tough questions. Yeah. That's I'm just I just like to support people and help them out as much as I can. I'm not the guy that makes any decisions.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. But the whole trick to that, Lance, is that if there's enough money to help everybody, it's a heck of a lot easier conversation than if there's not enough money to help everybody, and that's where we find ourselves today. Money is tough.
Speaker 2:Money is is tough, but I do have I do have a caller that had made a complaint. They are the e bike e bikes. E bikes. Yep. Their neighbors The neighbors are concerned.
Speaker 2:They're not really e bikes. They're electric powered motorcycles. They go up to 50 miles per hour.
Speaker 3:Not not all of them. There are some that are doing that Uh-huh. But it would be unfair to classify the majority of them as 50 mile an hour. The majority of what you're seeing can't exceed 28 miles an hour.
Speaker 2:Okay. Yep. Okay. I don't have any any complaints, man. I figured that when I was young, had a little moped.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And I used to drive it around, you know, nobody bothered me and, you know, I used to drive miles and miles and miles. So I guess this is the new technology. Right? Man, I love my little scooter. Gotta go to
Speaker 3:the airport once a day or every other day or something. Mhmm. I just hop on that little scooter.
Speaker 2:I I must I like it.
Speaker 3:Good time.
Speaker 2:It was it was just it was so fun to just drive all around. But come on, people. Send us a text, (907) 586-1800, or email air@kinyradio.com. And if you send an email today, tonight,
Speaker 3:send us a text. Even if we don't get it answered on the show today, Connor's gonna be here in the studio tomorrow. And, any of your questions, we can, put in the queue for Connor to get answered.
Speaker 2:Yes. Connor will be here tomorrow. I got one question because I know you would know this.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:I heard a rumor, and I don't go by rumors, me personally Sure. But that people are there's someone stepping down from the assembly.
Speaker 3:It's not a rumor. Two people have, announced that they would not be running, for their third term. There were, two of my colleagues that, the three of us sat together on the left far end of the assembly dais, they call that stage. Christine Wool and Alicia Huskandes, the three of us sat together for four years in a row.
Speaker 2:You did. And You fought the good fight.
Speaker 3:And we fought the good fight. And it does not surprise me after the toughest budget cycle ever that these my two colleagues would have seen that they decided that that was it's just painful.
Speaker 2:It's a That's a hard job. Well, in
Speaker 3:this one, there was no good answers. So it didn't matter what you did, everybody was gonna be upset.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And that's just a really tough position to be in all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I bet it really frustrated some of the people in the town about the different things that are going on.
Speaker 3:I don't Frustration, that's a a polite way to put it. Yes, sir. There's definitely frustration, especially when things are like so if you take one thing out of context, they're looking at, could we close or do we have to close the Douglas Fire Department? Nobody wants to close the fire Douglas Fire Department. Nobody wants to have that conversation.
Speaker 3:Nobody wants that outcome. But the financial reality of it is, what if we don't have enough money to operate the Douglas Fire Department?
Speaker 2:I don't know what are
Speaker 3:they gonna do. Well, exactly. So, those are the types of decisions that the assembly has to tackle. That's a local municipal situation. And this year, they did not make all the cuts they needed and used a lot of savings.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:Those savings will not be here. That can got kicked down the road and short of, changing the, tax base, you know, how the increasing the revenue, next year's budget discussion is gonna be even worse.
Speaker 2:Okay. We're running out of time. Hey. We've run out of time. We're running out of time.
Speaker 2:I think we got we got a couple more minutes left. Somebody requested that they repeat the phone number of the Subaru. That number is (907) 364-2616. I wanna thank you guys for taking the time to hang out with me and Wade. Yes.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I'll be here every every Monday. Please feel free to send in your your calls or texts next week at (907) 586-1800 or email airkinyradio dot com. And are here someone will be here all week, so they'll be more than happy to hook you up with reading your event or selling whatever you need to have sold or any anything that has to do with the community. They'll be more than help happy to get that out there.
Speaker 3:And that's what we deal with here on the community, everything.
Speaker 2:Just remember to be good to people, treat people with respect and love and help when you can. That's what I have to say. That's what I'm about. Wade, do you
Speaker 3:got anything to say? No. Thanks, everybody. Get those questions in for Connor and I tomorrow. We do love answering questions, and I did see the phone ring.
Speaker 3:I did see the man in the hat. There is a likelihood that one day this week, those phones will work. Till then, just send us those texts on (907) 586-1800, and till next time, Lance.
Speaker 2:Alright. Lance loves you. Lance is there. If you need anything, hit Lance up.
Speaker 3:Alright. We will talk to you next time on Problem Corner on KINY.
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