The Alaska Senate finalized its capital budget last week, and a project to build a new hospital in Petersburg didn’t make it onto the list. Now, hospital administration is scrambling for new funding avenues as the community’s old facility continues to decay.
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Alaska Sen. Bert Stedman spoke with KFSK’s Shelby Herbert about what got left out of the Senate’s lean financial blueprint for this year. He said Alaska burned through its savings over the last few years, but the state is approaching a more stable position.
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Petersburg Medical Center is closing in on the details of exactly what its new hospital will look like. The latest report shows the main building covering about 60,000 square feet. Hospital board members will review details on the project at a meeting this evening.
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Hundreds of people flooded the streets of Petersburg on the third weekend of May to eat traditional Norwegian foods, dance traditional dances, and sling herring at each other. The week-long festival marked the coming of spring, the beginning of the local fishing season, and Norway’s Constitution Day
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“We’re going to talk about that and try to come up with how we can rewrite the formula and make some adjustments and see how that goes. But clearly, there’s no math model that I’ve ever seen that shows that we can afford to not change that dividend formula.”
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The state is planning to build a $40 million dollar road across the northern part of Kupreanof Island in Southeast Alaska. However, most of the island’s residents don’t want it.
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