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Yeah, must be a State Job if they cant clean that up in a day. Milkin it. Maybe they are waiting till the weekend for time and a half and double time for sunday.
Like others have posted, the rock that fell is not the problem, its the growing cracks up above that pose a safety risk to the travelling public or any workers working below.
Also the contractors doing the clean up work are more than likely out of the 302 (ADOT maintenance contracts out a clean up job like that) and dont get double time on sundays. Also ADOT maintenance crews get their shifts staggerd so that they dont get double time on sundays (they get OT after 40 hours and only get double time on their 7th consecutive working day, doesnt matter when their week starts).
Yup but, the better bang for our buck State employees watching over the job get double on sundays. Come on why do you think they wait to plow from saturday snowfalls till sunday? Or are running up and down from Girdwood to Anchorage pushing pebbles with their plows on bare pavement.
Puff knows a thing or two about moving dirt and rocks.Let me clarify a little. I am not so much talking about the guys who do the actual snow plowing. You guys seem to have a better hold on that and what is true and is not.
I am talking about lets say 4-5 guys sitting in new pickups down at the road clean up. Sitting their watching ( supervising) the contracters removing the slide.
I also never stated that the monies used for State Maint. or DOT came out of my or your pockets. We do not pay State taxes. My concerns are why does it take 5-7 people working for the state to do the same job that private contractors can accomplish with 1 or 2 people.
Count the DOT trucks next time you drive through a road project this summer.
...And other thing, last time I checked I don't pay state taxes so I don't see were the money to maintain the highways is coming out of my pocket. So next time you think you can do a better job maybe you might go down to the State Local 71 and apply for a job and then see if you like being the brunt of all the so call highway maintainence experts for less than 50K a year.
Property taxes are a local government tax (Municipality of Anchorage, Mat-Su Borough, etc) and we do not have a state property tax. Alaska has no state income, sales, or property tax and nearly all our money for state government comes from big oil.