{"id":3310,"date":"2014-03-19T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2014-03-19T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T01:02:49","slug":"southeast-conference-2014-mid-session-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Conference 2014 Mid-Session Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Conference held their annual mid-session summit in Juneau from March 12<sup>th<\/sup>-14<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 I spoke to the Conference on March 13<sup>th<\/sup> and addressed various issues in front of the legislature this session.\u00a0\u00a0 I gave updates on the Gasline bill, education funding, the need for an equity infusion to reduce the unfunded liability in the state\u2019s retirement system, and loan programs for Southeast through the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority.\u00a0 I also talked at length about my concern regarding the Alaska Marine Highway System.\u00a0 We need to continue setting money aside to replace our aging fleet, starting with the Tustumena.\u00a0 There is currently $40 million in the marine highway vessel replacement fund but needs an additional $100 million to replace the Tustumena.\u00a0 We also need to ensure that our ships are constructed in the Ketchikan shipyard, not Louisiana.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I always enjoy it when the Southeast Conference comes to Juneau during the session.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great opportunity for me to speak to community leaders from all over Southeast and listen to their concerns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3312\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sec-11-e1395277313545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3312\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3312\" title=\"sec 1\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sec-11-e1395277313545-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sec-11-e1395277313545-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sec-11-e1395277313545-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Stedman addresses the Southeast Conference<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Conference held their annual mid-session summit in Juneau from March 12th-14th.\u00a0 I spoke to the Conference on March 13th and addressed various issues in front of the legislature this session.\u00a0\u00a0 I gave updates on the Gasline bill, education funding, the need for an equity infusion to reduce the unfunded liability in the state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}