House District 8: Kenai: Northern Kenai Peninsula
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William Elam
(Rep)
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John Hillyer
(Rep)
How do you plan to address the challenges of funding, teacher recruitment and retention, and ensuring educational equity across remote, rural and urban communities in Alaska in order to improve overall educational outcomes?
According to the U.S. Energy Administration in 2023, Alaska generated about 25% of its total electricity from renewable energy sources. What other alternatives do you think would help with our energy issues?
What options would you suggest where Alaska can increase our state revenue?
What could the Alaska legislature do to help restore voters’ trust in the integrity of our elections system?
Do you support or oppose continuation of our current open primary/ ranked choice voting election system. Why?
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During my time on the KPB Assembly and as the KPBSD board liaison I have consistently supported reasonable funding of education. I will continue to be an advocate for students and teachers who need those funds to make it to our classrooms. My experience within the local school board and assembly has allowed me to be better prepared to represent the Kenai Peninsula and all of the rural/remote districts within Alaska.
We need to focus our efforts on LNG production/exploration and be prepared to be the destination for any potential importation. I think that we should also be looking at tidal and hydro projects as well.
I am not a fan of new taxes and I take this topic very seriously. I think that as a state we have a lot of opportunities for responsible resource development. If we can get the cost of energy lower I think that we would also be able to increase our opportunities for other industries to take advantage of our high levels of natural resources. If we can get our production volumes back to where they belong our revenues will increase as well.
I would like to focus my efforts on working to reform our voter roles. I think that this would an easy area to work on and would be a good first step in restoring trust.
I would like to see our traditional election system restored.
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