A: That would be available through the Army Corps. There are two contacts we suggest:

There was, and I think I have a paper copy, I don’t have an electronic copy. So the Aleut Community of St. Paul partnered with a grad student with UAF that did some flooding and erosion type of studies. There’s some information there. From my perspective it was fairly crude and then only took into account one perspective at one point in time. That’s where that historical knowledge really comes into play to see how there’s patterns, from what I’ve seen. I’ve been here since ‘98. Patterns to how storm surge happens. For me, it’d be interesting to see some like modeling of weather patterns and conditions that might lead to the storm surge and flooding in those particular areas, along with geography, looking at the landscape and contours and maps and things like that. Because it doesn’t happen all the time, there’s certain conditions that lead up to that.  I think we would have, or the committee has somebody that I think is working on their masters or PhD on some erosion and they want to be part of the planning team that would be formed with other community representatives as part of this project. So they might have some additional information to bring to the table that might be valuable.

A: Really just your proposal of what your plan would be to mitigate the flooding. Check the content requirements list on page 11.

A: We would be developing the contract that the selected firm would need to review and sign.

A: During negotiation stage.

A: We have a Master Rate Schedule on the City website (https://stpaulak.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CSP_2026MasterRateSchedule_17Apr26.pdf) that includes much of the equipment, but we have graders, loaders, dozers, excavators, dump trucks. Between the city and the other entities on island, there’s no lack of equipment. We’re pretty flush with the number of different pieces of equipment.

A: There’s a number of different quarries on the island with different types of material, all owned by the Village Corporation, TDX, and then sub, depending on which query you go into, subsurface rights, to the regional corporation, Aleut Corp. For road surfaces, mainly we use scoria material. It’s like this pumice rock and you can go in and just scoop it up with a loader and then sift it and then put that on the roads. Red and black. And then in one of the quarries, there’s some gray rock. It still has volcanics. It’s a little bit heavier. Over the years, there have been people that have had equipment in the quarry crushing that and producing D1 type of material. And then some of that rock can be used, although it’s a fairly light type of rock. Usually we’re using that for like 6 inch minus and then D1. For the Army Corps work in our harbor and breakwater, all the rock usually comes from off island because our rock isn’t dense enough or heavy enough to be able to used in that type of way. For example, when they put the first breakwater together in the mid-80s, they used rock from here, big fall storm came and basically washed it out, so they had to redesign it. And then I think some rock came from Nome. The current Army Corps work that’s happening right now with the maintenance project is from Sandpoint. We’ve gotten it from Kodiak, Oregon, different places over the years for that big, bigger armor rock. But as far as local source for roads and road bases or bedding material for utilities or that type of thing, we can source that locally.

A: In the RFP, we said the not to exceed fixed price for the design is $500,000. The grant award is for $596,000 but we need to be able to pay the project manager and some administrative staff. So that is why the whole grant isn’t available for this design RFP.