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President’s Message: A Road to Success
Andrew Guy, Calista Corporation President/CEO
Storyknife, Sept./Oct. 2019 edition
Andrew Guy, Calista Corp. President/CEO
I hope everyone had a successful fishing, hunting and gathering season. It is during these activities that we realize how important it is for everyone in a family—whether close or extended—to support each other. Like our families, our Region of 56 villages is intertwined in many ways. It is very important to maximize the work and benefits made possible by these connections in our Region.
Your concerns are being heard throughout the Region—through partnerships. Partnerships help find areas of common interest and avoid duplication of services. Calista Corporation is committed to partner with organizations in the Region to align concerns that affect you, the Shareholder. The funding awarded to the Emmonak port project in late 2018 is one example.
“These partnerships make it easier for us at Calista to advocate—in Juneau and D.C.—for critical projects in the Region.” – Andrew Guy, Calista Corp. President/CEO
We tend to see overlap in services within the energy, environmental and economic development sectors of the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Region. Recently, Calista partnered in hosting the 2019 YK Energy, Environment, Economy (3E) Work Session. Partners include the Association of Village Council Presidents, Nuvista Light and Electric, Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation, Yuut Elitnaurviat, and many regional and statewide organizations dedicated to the Calista Region.
The YK 3E Work Session saw participation from about 30 villages in the YK Delta—that’s over half of the villages in the Region.
The goal of the 3E Work Session is to provide Priority Actions to benefit the people in the Region. Partnering organizations defined a Priority Action as something that can begin within the next one to three years, can make a difference, and does not duplicate work already in progress.
Action items range from infrastructure projects like airport upgrades and access to natural gas; housing priorities like building new and rehabilitating older homes; subsistence and surface travel priorities like growing youth subsistence skills; economic development priorities like preparing residents for emerging economic sectors; to energy priorities like the use of energy audits to make buildings and homes as energy efficient as possible.
The YK 3E Work Session saw participation from about 30 villages in the YK Delta—that’s over half of the villages in the Region.
The YK Region is our land. It’s where we live, eat and subsist for our livelihoods and our culture. These partnerships make it easier for us at Calista to advocate—in Juneau and D.C.—for critical projects in the Region.