I cannot believe this!!!  The lease was declared illegal and invalid.  If the state bought the LIO "The annual loss to the city would be about $260,000, which would be divided among other taxpayers."  AND they would still have to figure out HOW to pay for it.......uh, divide it among other taxpayers???   Stevens really takes the cake with his moronic comment -- “I know it’s going to piss everyone off,” he said. “But what have we done this year that hasn’t pissed everyone off?"  Oh, so the answer is to just keep pissing people off???  How many more "cons" need to be put on the list before these guys see that this is not a good deal?  Walk away from it and let the landlord be stuck with it, lets see if he can find someone else to convince this is a good deal.  The LIO will always have this black mark on it and so will the landlords.  Their names are trash in Alaska now.