Lindsay hopson who is here tonight with me. [applause] is also my distinct honor to introduce Lieutenant Governor first lady tony milan. [applause] i stand before you tonight to deliver my third state of the state address. I extend a special welcome to the 15 newlegislators. Thank you for stepping up to serve when the challenging but exciting chapter in the states history. [applause] i look forward to working with all of you, new and returning legislators to help write the next chapter for alaska. And i think my cabinet for your leadership and creativity. Governing requires a team effort and im grateful to have a dedicated and multi talented team. I think you are hardworking state employees, much of what you do is invisible but indispensable to the quality of life many of us take for granted as a state workforce has strong, you are doing more with less. But still state employees donated more than 350,000 to nonprofits last year through the share campaign. [applause] i am proud of your generosity and your service and finally i extend a heartfelt gratitude to all who reached out to me during my cancer diagnosis. In october, during an afm convention i received a call from my urologist informed me that i had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Following my surgery, i feel incredibly blessed to be a cancer survivor. [applause] eva and i have been blessed by the many wellwishers and prayers from across the state. I am fortunate that my cancer was diagnosed early through a routine screening. I encourage all alaskans to please recommend their screenings. [applause] turning now to the great state of our state tonight, i will discuss our fiscal deficit, highlights of accomplishments andchallenges , introduce a new initiative and share my vision to alaska forward. State revenues are down more than 80 percent from four years ago. During that period we cut the budget 44 percent. But we still face a 3billion fiscal debt. So theres some good news. Last year at this time oil was at 26 a barrel. Today it is double that. You Oil Discoveries have a potential to stem the downturn in production. Last year i told you about our work helping phillips with federal challenges. I received a call last week from the president of conical phillips alaska. I was elated to hear they are finding a new npr a with the potential to increase Oil Production by up to 100,000 barrels a day. Currently Oil Production has dropped 500 barrels a day. Oil prices however are around 50 per barrel. It would take a price of over 100 a barrel for a long period to solve their fiscal problem. Oil would require tripling the flow of oil in the pipelines. That is expected anytime soon. Some say weve been here before. They say we should just wait it out. This philosophy is bound on hopes and dreams not facts and realities. This philosophy has cost us nearly 13 billion of our limited savings over the past year. These are dollars we will never see again. These are dollars we wont generate investment earnings. Earnings that amount to hundreds of millions of dollars each year. We have nearly emptied our statuary Budget Reserve accounts. Next years budget will virtually drain the Budget Reserves. Heres the hard truth. Denial doesnt make the problem go away. Doesnt pay the bills. We need to pass and stabilize our fiscal future and we need to do it now. Taken from the legislatures own financial expert david kiel, last summer he said alaska is in the midst of the greatest fiscal crisis in state history. Mister geo is correct. Alaskans made it clear before they would accept new revenues major budget cuts were needed. My message to alaskans is this. We heard you and we have axes. During my tenure we have got more than 1. 7 billion in unrestricted general fund spending. We have reduced Capital Budget by 80 percent. We are shrinking the footprint of government with shared administrative services, improved technologyand efficiency. We reduced executive branch travel by 41 percent in the last two years. Weve given up leasedspace. Our court system is statewide. Now down on friday at noon. The department of health and social services has been cut by more than 13 percent. One result is that more than 2000 alaskan families will no longer get help to pay their homeowners. Crime rates are too high. Averages have decreased. By the end of this year we will have closed six health centers, three stations, one correctional facility, to detention facilities, multiple job centers and a Fire Training facility. We are selling search and rescue aircraft. We are assessing whether it makes sense to do other state assets. We are making sure that any project is sound before we send money into it. We canceled projects that are too costly to build and too costly to maintain. We are strictly adhering to formula funding for education and tax credits. By this Time Next Year we will have reduced the state workforce by 3000 state employees since i took office. That brings the workforce down to what it was 15 years ago. We are asking more state employees. We have negotiated zero costofliving adjustments and labor agreements. They employees are taking unpaid furlough days and contribute more for health insurance. In short, weve made Great Strides to make government for more efficient and accountable. I am proposing legislation to freeze the salaries of some state employees while we address our fiscal challenges. Better days will come but until then we must make difficult decisions. While it obviously will not close the fiscal gap i believe in leading by example. I have reduced my own salary by one third area the budget is now below 4. 5 billion. The level that some alaskans and budget hawks have identified as a sustainable spending target. The last time our state had a budget of 4. 5 billion was 2007. Adjusted for inflation and population, the fiscal year 2018 budget is the lowest since 2002. Some use per person state spending as a litmus test of reasonableness. That can be misleading when applied to alaska. We are the largest state in the nation. Our population is among the smallest and is most dispersed. That combination creates high cost of providing government services. Additionally our state provides partial or full funding for Many Services such as education and public safety. The local governments fully funded many other states. Sometimes we forget the expense of the magnitude of the last frontier. While minnesota boasts 10,000 lakes, alaska has 3million. Alaska has 242 state owned airports. The next largest number of state owned airport is in oregon with 40. As a comparison, the governor of california recently announced a 1. 6 billion budget deficit. That equates to a deficit of 40 per resident. Here in alaska, we have a 3 billion dollar deficit. And a population of 730,000. That equates to a 4000 per person deficit. We have a significant problem. In a recent town hall meeting in waccamaw, residents were restrained from turnover crime. Many wanted to increase police presence. The head of the Alaska State Troopers did a good job explaining the impact of ongoing budget cuts. We cant continue to cut the budget and expect to improve the situation. Alaskans deserve and are demanding better. Its not just Public Services that suffer. Our economy is at risk. Ways, president of Bp Exploration Resource Development council not solving the fiscal imbalance increases uncertainty and exacerbates the problem. It is time to move forward beyond the transitions and work the problem. I couldnt agree more. Its time to balance the books in a responsible and lasting way. It is time to increase revenue. You have the ability. We have industry that can support modest increases. We are the lowest tax people in the nation. We have outside workers paying taxes to other states on their alaskan earnings. We have a Permanent Fund that rooms enough to pay for a portion of the state services and pay dividends and gratuity if we structure it wisely. As we come closer to draining out readily available state, our economy comes increasingly uncertain. Uncertainty is the greatest threat to economic opportunity. Last year i introduced nine majors that together would impose a gap. Not one of those proposals path, not a single one. Only the Permanent Fund protection act made it out of one chamber. I think the senate for having the courage to approve the bill. [applause] this year i am again proposing Permanent Fund protection act in the form passed the senate last year. I am willing to introduce an increase in the motor fuel tax which is not been raised significantly since president john f. Kennedy was in office. I am no fan of taxes but i am a fan of a fiscal, Stable Foundation for alaska. In 2004, governor jay hammond expressed remorse with the lack of income tax repeal. He believed that had the income tax state in place, alaska would not have to contend they fiscal gap. Hammond also said that in the event of a fiscal gap, pfcs should be used as support Public Services. In this vein i maintain my support for a modest income tax and other revenue bills introduced last year. If all these majors pass , alaska received a pfd each year we would still be the most tax individuals in the nation. Before reintroducing those bills i plan to work with you in this body to chart a path forward. If you dont support the plan i have proposed, put another plan on the table. If you believe we need to cut more, identify your cuts and put them on the table. If you think the solution is a different kind of tax that i have proposed, your tax proposal on the table. Whatever your plan may be, put it out there and lets get to work and find a solution but if your plan does not close fiscalgaps, if you identify the amount of my savings it will take each year to cover the gap under your plan. As a carpenter, i never framed half the house. Or poured half of foundation. If you have a plan, saving alaskans make it a complete plan. [applause] last june, i faced an unprecedented decision as governor. Have the Senate Version of funds legislation passed the house, it would have been reduced to the historical average of approximately 1000. I made one of the hardest decisions of my life when i reduced the dividend payout without legislative action. The balance of the dividend payout was less than reserve accounts and earned income for future payments. I know the Significant Impact that decision had alaskans across the state. If not revealed it was necessary, believe me, i would not have done it. For Historical Perspective you might recall that in 2012 when oil, our primary Revenue Source was 112 a barrel, we received an 878 dividend. In 2013 when oil was 137 a barrel we received a 900 dividend in the last year, when oil average 43 a barrel, alaskans received a 1002 dividend. After making that tough decision, i was approached by a gentleman who had worked in government bill begins administration. He thanked me for making this unpopular but necessary decision. He said governor egan for me very unpopular decision. And governor egan drastically reduced fishing openers in order to rebuild the fisheries. The fisheries and the canneries suffered in the short run and heavy opposition mounted area but eventually the runs began to turn around. In 2015 the catch was 260 million, a tenfold increase from governor egans day. A pivotal reason for this is that egan demonstrated leadership rather than doing what was popular, he did the right thing for the state. No one could have foreseen that oil would drop below 40 a barrel and that alaskans would be hit by the financial crisis we are in. When youre in a crisis you use whatever options available to avoid disaster. I cannot solve alaskas fiscal problem. It will take legislation to solve the problem. Only you have the power to pass legislation. You possess the power and the opportunity to solve our challenges. As i said last year, we were warned of this day. In 1976, governor hammond and carson, we did not change our ways, alaska would arrive at this day of reckoning. He said while the time to pay the piper may be some 20 or 30 years away, if we continue to build a governmentfunded primarily on one resource alone, what a terrible legacy we would leave our children. We must Work Together to advance a responsible plan to close the fiscal gap this year. While the fiscal gap as taking a lot of time and energy, weve made progress and are working to overcome other challenges. Despite the cloud of uncertainty weve seen some positive Economic Developments in this past year. In my administration continue to support and continues to pursue economic diversification. Tourism is thriving with over 2 million visitors to the state last year. The Tourism Industry is working to create a tourism Improvement District to provide marketing funds with less report. I applaud the leadership and initiative. Our fisheries continue to provide a livelihood or thousands of alaskans. Last summer i celebrated the harvest of the 2 million family of the 153 year history of the official bay fishery. The fish was symbolic of the abundance and quality for alaskas subsistence and commercial renewable resource economies and it was delicious. [laughter] in february, i established the task force to develop a shellfish and seaweed industry that is environmentally sound and respectful of traditional uses. A healthy Construction Industry is critical to alaskas economy. This coming season we will see over half 1 billion worth of Construction Projects already awarded. Another half 1 million will likely go to fish this year. While we have reduced state funding of Construction Projects we are working hard to maximize federal dollars to projects. This estimate will employ hundreds of alaskans in the Construction Industry. Our alaskan settlement act corporations are an important economic engine, and corporations provide hundreds of millions of dollars of profits, shareholder dividends to alaskans. These corporations have worldwide operations. Our Fiscal Health would help bring more of their investments back to alaskans. Agriculture has a strong potential to diversify our economy and increase ready for alaskans. Alaska has 43 farmers markets around the state. A threefold increase in 2004. If every alaskan at five dollars a week on alaskan grown products, that would translate to 188 million through the alaskan economy every year. Mining continues to be an important one. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fort knox mind which employs 650 alaskans. This is is a great example of local job creation through responsible Resource Development. Our Timber Industry has been in decline mostly due to restrictive federal politics. We negotiated an agreement that allows the state to manage federal timber sales under state authority. This agreement will also offer the full allowable timber harvest in the southeast corridor and will enable and support land exchanges through a diversified ownership course. In the oil patch this year we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the transplant and Pipeline System on the reason for optimism. We saw an increase in Oil Production this past year and have a plan to support increases. Last year led by exxon mobil, oil had the flow from point thompson. Most recent north scope oil and gas sales demonstrated how much resource potential in alaska there is. The department of Natural Resources continue to support armstrong and Hill Corporation as they work to bring their respective new developments online. In 2016 by administration took a new step by nominating both beaufort seas for leasing. We did this to protect the states longterm interest in that region. We have new opportunities with new administrations in dc to stay active to the cultural region of analogue, also known as the 1002 region. This region represents eight percent of the refuge as adjacent to the new infrastructure point thompson. The three quarters empty oil pipeline within 50 miles of the 10 million barrel oil reserve. The Outgoing Administration could see fit to allow offshore drilling, surely the Incoming Administration will see the wisdom of allowing on shore drilling in this region. [applause] we have already restocked for the incoming president on this issue. Finally, consultations for those living in the region, i will advocate to bring this opposition to reality. I was troubled to learn that wyoming has billed 16,000 exploration wells and weve only drilled about 5000 in the north slope since the 1960s. Why are we not doing better . Our drilling and commitment bill is determined in part by the weather due to the necessity of building temporary ice roads. Traditional yearround roads. Why cant we as the owner of the resource build gravel roads as toll roads . Similar to what the state did for the red dog mine in the 1980s and drill yearround. My administration is exploring this opportunity. On the gas line, with the support of our Industry Partners alaska is in the lead on the l kg project. We are actively working to bring Market Participants into the project as partners. We are requesting no new appropriation for the budget. It is not todays gas prices that will bring the market to this project but projected prices of 23 to 2025. This is the market window for the ak lng. Some may remember the price of oil was less than five dollars a barrel when this decision was made to build the pipeline. Bloomberg recently imported after this week the Global Consumption of lng expected to rise dramatically. Products have been shelved due to the current low lng prices which could can trigger a supply shortage. According to bloomberg, this could drive up lng prices massively around 2025. Alaskans said they cannot afford to miss this window of opportunity. To be ready, the 2023 and 2025 we must stay on course. We have no other projects that will revitalize our economy like the gas bill. [applause] i want to share alaskans that the lng project will be financed with a longterm commitment, not from the Permanent Fund. I will not be pursued at all costs. It will only be pursued if they have longterm customers. In addition to Economic Development in 2016, we made progress in many other areas. The new agreement allows alaskans to have more say in canadian projects with impact alaskan waters. I thanked the transcounty working group and governor lot for their work in this effort. I think the British Columbia government for recognizing the responsibility to clean up the tulsa chief mine. Water doesnt recognize political borders. I am committed to protecting our waters and resources that they support. Last year we saw simple victories to our state sovereignty. The Supreme Court ruled in our favor in the case of sturgeon versus pratt and i think jon stewart for asserting his right, the states rights all the way to the highest court in the nation. [applause] the state also had a significant win in the mosquito forecast, the federal government suspended interest to pave the waterway to the state. In addition the court upheld the federal government alone out alaska 4000 in attorneys fees. Last week we filed a suit challenging the National Parks to resist regulation that attend to prohibit hunting methods on National Wildlife and refuge and preserves. Last summer i visited jane cove, heard many storiesof danger due to the lack of yearround access to emergency services. 11 miles, one lane throughout the road connecting hose to an all weatherairport. That 11 mile road would mean difference between life and death. I applaud our congressional delegations between legislation that will allow us to build this short life saving road. [applause] all alaskans deserve access to healthcare. Medicaid expansion has made it possible or over 27,000 alaskans. Many have told me how Medicaid Expansion improves or save their life. Let me share one of those stories. During the afn convention in fairbanks in october, tenant governor lot and i took our first ladies to dinner. And i got up during my dinner and walked out to the piano player and he motioned me over and said id like to see whatevers calling you and i would like to play. Why is that . I said he said because im here because of Medicaid Expansion. I had a heightening disease that required surgery immediately upon the impact date of the respective date of Medicaid Expansion. The doctor put out to the very hour that went into effect so that we could have that surgery so hes alive today because of that. Ill be darned if i can come up with a play for me and he was very appreciative and thats one of many, many places ive gone compared to how the lives have been improved as a result. Its encounters like this that remind me, each of us that behind each number is a person. Who struggles have been lessened or whose life has been spared. Medicaid expansion has also brought more than 360 million in new federal dollars to the state. It has enabled us to reduce state spending by more than 15 grand. At the same time, we need to reign in the cost of medicaid. Thank you for passing the medicaid reform the last year. It is designed to reduce costs while ensuring all alaskans receive the care they need. We must also address the broader challenge of escalating health insurance. There is no easy solution but we are aggressively looking into all available options. Turning to education, alaska had long ranks in the bottom here in the nation for Education Achievement and graduation rates. We must do a better job of preparing our youth for the challenges of the future. To meet this challenge, we need to rethink our entire system of public education, alaskans must be at the heart of this effort. Weve already begun. To end a Public Outreach process, the state board of education identified five priorities for public education. Using these include improving student learning, ensuring excellent educators, modernizing the customs, inspiring trial and Community Ownership and promoting safety and wellbeing. After an extensive public process, the state board of education will provide final replication to my offers and september. Our work with the legislature on four efforts will begin in earnest. Over the past year we continue to prioritize relationships between the state and tribe, alaskas native people and our 200 federally recognized tribes represent 10,000 years of history and tradition in alaska. Tribes are a natural ally and frankly the backbone of our community. With your help, we passed a bill addressing the indian Child Welfare act. To increase the percentage that alaska native children will remain in their community. We have strengthen partnerships with final help organizations to provide more services while saving the state dollars. We are partnering with tribes to improve criminal justice. Last week attorney general lyndon was signed an agreement with the village tribe that provides certain lowlevel offenders the option for the village tribe court. This past year we convened the governor travel Advisory Counsel to advise my administration and find more opportunities for collaboration. We continue to work to honor the rights of alaskas first people. Heres one example. Over 50 years the village of kolkata had been seeking to regain ownership of their ancestral land burial sites with 12 acre state Land Transfers. In june i visited colcannon and walked the gravesite with traditional chief 81. Mister you want third 100 and august 13. And my goal was to create the Land Transfer before his next birthday. [applause] this year, several noteworthy military documents. Next year your path of the alaskan military code of justice restoring trust, transparency, discipline within the National Guard has been a major priority of my administration. This Bipartisan Legislation has been an important part of that effort. In addition to our financial crisis we must commit ourselves to resolving some of the state other urgent issues. An extreme challenge we face in alaska is the opioid epidemic. I thank now retired senator johnny ellis for his leadership in the bill, a drug that reduces the effect of heroin overdose and is saving lives. But it is not enough. The tragedy of alaskas heroine epidemic is ruining the lives of too many alaskans. Breaking families apart, driving a crime. Tonight i offer five steps to reduce the toll of this epidemic. First, limit the amount of opioids a doctor should prescribe with exceptions. Second, strengthen the description Drug Monitoring Program to prevent pill shopping and identify providers who are overprescribing opioids. Third, give Regulatory Authority to classify illicit opioids as controlled substances as they emerge. Fourth, restrict the transport of illegal opioids and heroin into our Rural Communities with approved screening and enforcement. Fifth, require licensed Healthcare Providers to treat opioid education as part of their continuing education requirements. This proposal is based on the work of the alaskan task force, i will work to refine this plan with lawmakers, medical community and the public. I look forward to working with you to put an end to this needless suffering and loss wrought by carolyn and opioids, cannot wait. I have likewise committed to reducing violence for communities in our homes. Over the last alaskas women experienced Sexual Violence and Partner Violence for both crime. While the rate is down from 59 percent in 2010, it is till deplorable. Many individuals and groups are working on prevention, the last day we held a statewide Domestic Violence Sexual Assault forum training. I wanted to recognize mark mike henry, an alaskan who was named a top 40 under 44 the International Association of chief of police for his worry or countering Domestic Violence through education. While prevention is our priority, improving these crimes is critical. My office launched a Sexual Assault Kit Initiative in 2015. We covered thousands of rape kits, not being processed. 2016 we secured federal funding to help aggressively process. Justice delayed is justice denied. And these people deserve justice. [applause] during the climate change, alaskans have known for some time that our landscape is changing at an accelerated pace. Alaskans already leave the nation and we are ground zero for private impact. We must maintain the integrity of our land, air and water through generations. My administration is developing a framework to engage alaskans in this effort to protect our way of life. We will see our local and traditional knowledge. We will seek out industry input, seek to involve every sector help us meet this challenge. Is one of the greatest challenges of our era, and we will look forward to working with you to create the legacy of timely response. Last year i shared with you a story about my family. I want to share with you a different story. I get to talk a little bit about what it was like growing up. Nowadays we didnt have radio, we didnt have tv. We didnt have a bowling alley, we had basketball. Basketball was everything. So you didnt make the team, you didnt get to travel on the weekends, you have to make the team. So my senior year we won a regional tournament and that event we went to travel to allstate to play in the championship game. We were pretty excited about that. Many of our team members had never flown before, were excited about that in the airplane on flying. We went to the school board and said we need money for travel funds. They said we dont have any money. He goes back to the council. The Council Plans the situation we are in and they also said no. But they added, ill never forget this, they said you shouldve thought of that before you won the tournament. Things have changed. So we raised the money. We went to their and i wish i had the story where we actually won the tournament, we never want to stay tournament but we did win the tournament and had a great time. But that just, the point of that is that basketball was really important so i dont and come back after the first semester, i got to tell you, this team was one semester of college and i was pretty much had it all figured out. There was a basketball for you, my wife came back and so i took my class from rutherford who was one of the two captains and i said marty, lets go to delta for the tournament. Great. How are we going to get there . We didnt have cars. We found the car and my parents said we only have one car, theres two cars. One car. They couldnt find a car for dad said john, ill drive. Ill drive you there. And your dad driving us to delaware, will figure this out. We found a friend with a Station Wagon and his parents said we can use that, we all go off to delta in his Station Wagon. Its a little bit colder when we get to dallas, its about 40 below and along the way he start passing the gold station. Eggs are sounding too good in the transmission. Goldengate, had a great time, celebrated that. We only had one year left, reverse. So we backed over to a friends house and marty said i will call my dad, he will come get us. No, no. For260 miles. Heres the deal, were going to drive. So the next morning , daylight, we back out of delta. Headed for valdes. And it was 45 below and we had about 10 minutes writing backwards and you had to rotate so marty and i would rotate around bag and then drive. We made it about halfway or 40 or so miles and we lost that allimportant last year. And we didnt have to pull over to the side of the road because thats where we were driving. We decided to hitchhike. We never hitchhiked before. We figured a car would just stop. They would see us and they would stop. They didnt. We said whos not going to stop for a girl . Hey marty, why dont you get out . Marty got out and they didnt stop for marty. Finally a car came by and took us to paxson and we called her dad. They came to pick us up and to dons credit he never once said i told you so. So whenwe had a good time , no one got hurt. We learned a lesson. Here we are in 20 17 and we are collectively heading into hazardous territory in a substandard vehicle. With our Budget Reserve at a rate of 8. 2 billion a day. Thats 360,000 every hour of every day to replenish the money. And it occurs to me there is some lessons for my illfated trip to delta, a lesson that was not for my own life but for alaska. First, Pay Attention with those with wisdom and experience, they might have much to teach you. Dont expect one person to stand out in the cold and solve the problems. Solving problems takes a team. The time to make a new plan is before you lose your last gear or your last dollar. Dont ignore the warnings. Finally, take the challenges head on. You cant go back with respect to where you want to go. Last years failure to act on the fiscal plan means we had one year left of savings outside the government earnings reserve. We are losing options as surely as willy gold Station Wagon was losingyears. Last year i said it was only a crisis that we didnt act. Now we have a crisis. It is critical that we embrace compromise and demonstrate true leadership as we Work Together to pass a comprehensive solution this year. Governor wally hinkle said we will still see action, maceo. Let us to alaska for the better days. And yes, there are many reasons for hope. A new legislature means a new opportunity. New ideas and new dialogue. We have the tools to solve thesechallenges. We have a wealth, we have the capacity. We just need the well. Now is not the time to see who breaks first. In alaska with thousands of new value added jobs let start exporting finished products rather than raw materials. I envision an alaska the lowest cost of energy, not the highest. An alaska where the cost of healthcare is not out of reach for Small Businesses and individuals. And alaska we set the standard for Environmental Stewardship and responsible research and development. And alaska were local governments have the authority and resources to meet their communities needs. Alaska were educational fun is not a cliffhanger each year and teachers dont get pink slips every spring. A strong economy, vibrant communities, Healthy Families and a healthy environment is a vision worth fighting for. Its worth sacrificing for. Its our sacred obligation to future generations. [applause] i have talked a lot tonight about our challenges, the challenges are many the rewards are even greater. Im grateful every day for the opportunity and privilege to lead this great state. We are honored to be the first alaskan born king of governor and Lieutenant Governor. We both were born in territory of alaska and participate in every chapter of alaskas history since prestated. It gives us a unique perspecti perspective, between us we have personally known every governor since stated and some territorial governors. We know how alaskans always pull together to overcome yesteryears challenges. We know where we have been and we know the stark realities of where we are today. But we also know the course to wait right tomorrow moves beyond in transition. It requires working the problem. Last year i talked about a program called pulling together that i received as a gift from Lieutenant Governor. It depicts a group of alaskan standing by a road, and muddy stream ready to pull their strength to upper eye giant stone. From the stop itself is out of view. Its the people that make the photo so powerful. Over the past year ive been heartened to me alaskans have asked where is my place on the road . Many of you have been pulling on that rope. Those of you who are new to this body, thank you for stepping forward to grab a hold of the rope. We are so much stronger when we pool our might for the good of our state. Tonight i encourage all of you and all alaskans to multiple alaska forward. In closing out to express my appreciation for the uniform women and men who served alaskans at all levels of government. When you see a fire or hear gunshots, you run toward the threat. Your courage inspires me to continue facing alaskas challenges headon it is our duty, it is what elected to do. I think especially the Fairbanks Police sergeant grant, a devoted father, husband and man of god who was killed in line of duty last year. I think and by hospital visit a few months ago with Anchorage Police officer whose bold, selfless actions ended a serial killers reign of terror. [applause] these extraordinary profiles encourage our reminders that our job in the face of alaskas crisis is not to play it safe. We must find the courage and the great to run towards the threat and face it headon. Together we can move alaska forward. Together we can bring alaska to place a stability and prosperity. Together we can work the problem. Thank you for your service to this extraordinary state we are privileged to call home. May we be part of what gods blessings as we work the problem to pursue the opportunities this session. May god bless you. May god bless alaska. Good night. [applause] good job. More state o of the state speeches at cspan. Org. Right never gina Governor Terry mcauliffe outlined his legislative priorities i in the estate of the commonwealth address. Its one hour. [applause]
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