Unalaska, AK – The power is back on in the city of Adak. The city council approved a new agreement with the Aleut Enterprise Corporation which says the Corporation will sell the city 5,000 more gallons of fuel on credit while helping them find low interest loans to buy more fuel for the future. The city plans on selling the utility to TDX Electric but will have to maintain it until December at the earliest. Janet McNall is one of the five council members who voted for the agreement.

"I think AEC has honestly tried to help us out in this situation," she remarked.

Though McNall said she is happy to have come to another agreement with the Aleut Corporation, she said she's frustrated with how the city leadership has managed the situation over the past few months.

"It's always 'Right now, right now, right now,'" she said. "That's the only thing we ever do here in Adak is jump from one crisis to the next. In between times everyone's happy-go-lucky and 'oh yay, everything's fine,' but the minute that crisis comes up, 'oh, why didn't we prepare for that?' Well gee I don't know.

McNall said she thinks it's time to change how Adak is run.

"There are some of us on the council who will be working very hard towards that change in leadership."

Two council members voted against the agreement but could not be reached for comment. City Manager Steve Hines says he's unhappy with the agreement and its terms and conditions but he had no voting power.

Adak has been on a partial power schedule since early September. When the power crisis began, government contractors left the island a month before schedule, depriving local businesses of thousands of dollars worth of sales. It also encumbered the local clinic. Doctor Robert Adams says partial power made treating patients and medevacing them off of the island difficult.