Anchorage Chief Administrative Officer Bill Falsey called a report by the outgoing administration a 'candid and sobering look' at the city.
Anchorage Chief Administrative Officer Bill Falsey at Alaska Public Media on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. That’s one of the key takeaways fromput together by the outgoing administration of Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, which turned over the keys to City Hall to Mayor Suzanne LaFrance at the beginning of July.
That transition report was a “candid and sobering look” at the state of the city, says LaFrance’s chief administrative officer, Bill Falsey. Falsey was city manager under the Berkowitz administration and says many of the challenges the city faces are not new.: I think what is different now is that it feels like the magnitude has grown significantly, and that the pervasiveness has also grown. So it’s gone sideways and wider and also larger in magnitude. And it’s affecting sort of all corners of the municipality.
It’s also the case that in some of the departments that the municipality, in the COVID era, did what everyone did, and everyone went fully remote. And by and large, the municipality after COVID did what most employers did not do and called everybody back home. And so there’s been some frustration, I think, with the lack of teleworking opportunities and remote working opportunities, and those are things that we can, that we’re looking into as well.
One of the other things that was also emphasized in the transition report is how the municipality is also dealing with the transition to a era where we just don’t get the level of state support that we used to. So I believe you can find in the transition report, and certainly it has been reported that, for instance, from the late ’90s to 2014, we received from the state almost half a billion dollars to build or maintain roads. And from 2015 forward that figure was $2 million.
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