{"id":19594,"date":"2016-03-22T08:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/study-alaska-could-save-big-if-lawmakers-leave-new-offices\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T08:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:02:13","slug":"study-alaska-could-save-big-if-lawmakers-leave-new-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/study-alaska-could-save-big-if-lawmakers-leave-new-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Alaska could save big if lawmakers leave new offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> A report suggests Alaska could save $7.5 million if lawmakers abandoned plans to purchase its new, remodeled office space in Anchorage and instead moved to a state-owned building.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Dispatch News reported that financial analysis commissioned by lawmakers found that issuing bonds to buy the existing offices at the landlords\u2019 $37 million asking price would produce $31.7 million total cost over a 20-year period, compared to a total cost of $24.2 million to move into the Atwood Building.<\/p>\n<p>The joint Legislative Council, a committee, commissioned the study.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have been considering whether to relocate for a full year, since just after they moved into the remodeled space.<\/p>\n<p>Legislative Council Chair, Sen. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, said the next step is to negotiate the asking price before deciding what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A report suggests Alaska could save $7.5 million if lawmakers abandoned plans to purchase its new, remodeled office space in Anchorage and instead moved to a state-owned building. The Alaska Dispatch <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a> reported that financial analysis commissioned by lawmakers found that issuing bonds to buy the existing offices at the landlords\u2019 $37 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19594"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}