On July 28, 2026, the Valdez City Council held a work session to discuss the progress and future direction of the nuisance abatement program. City Manager Nate and Chief King presented an update on current enforcement actions, including a spreadsheet of properties, voluntary compliance agreements (VCAs), notices and orders to abate (NOAs), and the upcoming scrap barge operation. Approximately 500 junk vehicles have been removed over the last five years, with an average of 90 vehicles abandoned in Valdez per year. Council members debated the balance between cooperative enforcement and stricter penalties for repeat offenders, ultimately directing staff to continue the cooperative approach but to escalate enforcement—including daily $250 civil fines and property clean-up liens—for willful non-compliant property owners.
Never been to learn a lot. Actually, yeah. The relationship between them and Aliaska. I didn't have any idea. We don't need anything. It's all gonna be great. So it was really interesting. It was nice to talk to the employees. The employees were just afraid about the leadership there. They were like those company. Oh yeah, we we have we have a really good electrical. Something that I thought was interesting though, and I'm surprised that they're not sure. Maybe they don't want to play all that source. But they said if they raise their dam and the cooperative program with the alley if it goes through, then we would have surplus electric that we could sell to the other cooperative if we just added another like 40 miles of transmission lines. Yeah. Well, what I would find interesting is if we had a surplus during the summer, we would be able to set up an electric docking peers for our ships, which that's a big reason that the cruise liners don't dock here overnight is because they can't charge. I don't think you can see us because we're working on TMS, but can you hear us? And because the only downside for our I'm gonna try to reboot this computer real quick to see we're gonna lose us for a minute. You know, stop spilling. If we could produce a surplus during the sea and interlink with like uh Golden Valley or or the uh whatever the other one's called, um then we could we could just do like a paper trade where they buy our surplus in the summer and we buy their own. Yeah, they just counted that pretty hard about sharing, you know, up up north basically that the infrastructure would just be impossible. Really to ever do. So the mountains just the cost of being able to do that. They decided it's a chronicle. Um so if there was a surplus that we could have ships overnight, now that it would you know potentially be a game changer for people spending money on Belgies. I don't know. It was interesting. The university just did a study about locations in Alaska that could do gravity storage where you like you know pump up into an artificial man-made reservoir and then you know, produce hydro later when you need it. Um I didn't see the maps yet though, they just published like pretty recently. But it'd be interesting to see if it if that could be useful, like uh consideration. Yeah. You should go on the tour next year. You should. Last time I went on the tour. Did they kick you out? Almost I I had the most questions I can say that much. How was that ride up to Allison? Like did you take side? Yeah. Oh, up to the lake? Yeah, yeah. We've done that in our can Am before, so I I was like, oh, we're doing this in vehicles. But it was great. I mean, they put it in four low and did awesome. So the the one that got a little sketchy was actually going up to the creek. That's true because that is not a well-maintained road. And so they were kind of thin and out trying to get around corners and stuff. So it was a little it was a little more sketchy getting up to the creek. But the one thing could answer me was actually volunteers. So I'm playing in my laptop right now, really.