We were able to meet a 20- to 30-year project plan at once. It also enabled us to consolidate our operations, and being able to consolidate things under one roof is huge.

The zoning ordinance is always a work in progress and is amended from time to time and will be amended in the future. After so many years of amendments you have a document that is inconsistent. At some places it contradicts itself.

From an outsider's perspective I can understand it seems odd to open a new facility while another one is closing. But Red Rock is designed for a state contract.

The dilemma is that there was no direct contract with ICE, because that was handled through the one Bureau contract. It's possible that ICE may now want to work directly with us, but because we don't have any assurance of that, we have given every employee a notice of termination.

There is an emergency operations plan [for the town]. We update it when we need to.

We believe that this tax rate, at 20 percent, is a significant increase in tax and may lead us to not developing all of the resources that are there on the North Slope.