Bill Falsey

Alaskan. Dad. DHS Lynx. Music fan. Audiobook devourer. Former Anchorage City Manager. Absorber of chaos; projector of calm.

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@leslieridle @ancpeoplemover Tell your friend to apply! “Falsey said the city is making additional changes to make it a more attractive place for employees. For example, the city will no longer require a GED for its People Mover bus drivers.” https://t.co/RsJgHJgcVs

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One to watch...

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Cook Inlet natural gas supplies could fall short of need as early as next year, and we're in for a rude awakening if we don't diversify and modernize our energy base for the long term. Clean energy + gas = more energy reliability and resilience. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

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@wesley_early

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Does anyone know how to make sense of Bronson telling AKPM that the "one thing [he's] most proud of" is his "put[ting] a very successful engineering firm" in charge of the Port of Alaska Modernization Project? Jacobs/CH2M has been the PAMP Project Manager SINCE FEBRAURY 2014.

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@JCMCyclone @Constant4Alaska I think that’s the leading guess.

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One of my favorite days at City Hall was discovering some old reports in the Parks and Recreation Department's library that Vic Fischer had co-authorized in the 1950s.

One, "Preliminary Plan -- Recreation for Anchorage," was issued in Dec. 1954. 1/

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@benmatheson I think so.

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Among other things, it called for public swimming facilities to be established at Goose Lake, and for Russian Jack to be preserved for recreation. 6/

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@_daftdunk I bet you could just walk in to P&R. These were the oldest docs on the shelf, I think. But they do have a lot of plans dating to the 1970s and 1980s.

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The second report, "Recreation for Anchorage," was co-authored by Vic for the U.S. Department of the Interior sometime earlier in the 1950s. (I forgot to take a picture of the title page.) 5/

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... and for the establishment of a Campbell Creek Park, which the report predicted would "assume as important a role as Chester Creek" as population increased. 4/

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The plan called for the creation of a "Chester Creek Park," to stretch from "Knik Arm to Russian Jack Springs" (which I don't think actually happened until 1971).... 3/

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At the time, Vic was the City of Anchorage's Planning Director. 2/

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@lgtobin There were more flat tires this year than I've ever seen! Hopefully they can get back to sweeping the shoulder in future years.

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Fireweed.

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@erikfromalaska Good question —don’t know!

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The state's "Cost of Living in Alaska" (and inflation) report is really interesting. So much of the overall results are driven by housing. https://t.co/BmzLMQxVXP

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@Souldotna I think Donlin is already planning to import LNG. “Operating costs assume a delivered gas pricing which includes importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Anchorage.” https://t.co/eQhZdddPHS

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The Cook Inlet Gas Supply report is pretty sobering. 1/3 https://t.co/3mc9p3nIGC

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@Guzzak Transmission is an issue, for sure.