capital, ditional russia, was in codiac, and then it moved to sitka and it stayed sitka for a while andhen as ress designated juneau the capital of the district, and that area was moved from sitka juneau. this building was originally $712,000, $8 per square foot. the total cost including all the a million was about dollars. this is a very modest rendition co-: -- deco architecture. building and dest it's probably because it originally was intended to be a a eral building with territorial component. bout 3/4 of the building was dedicated to federal offices and the other ncies, and third was dedicated to territorial government. really a federal and territorial building which was building when e it was built in 1929. there was one very distinctive building stic of the bych was a portico supported four large marble columns. those marble columns are marble alaska.ine in southeast they are about 24 or 25 feet high. there is no mistaking the front entry of the building. distinctive. the site was selected, it was an atire block which sounds like lot but since the building takes up almost the en

sitka, alaska resident christine patriot -- pate and anchorage resident -- these two women for decades, have been leading the effort to bring legal services and other services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in our state. they work together, they are leaders, they have helped hundreds if not thousands of victims and their families. think about that. over the last 20 years. so let's talk about them a little bit. christine in her work, and these done a great job with the alaska network on domestic violence and sexual assault what we call andvsa, which is an umbrella organization for 25 domestic violence and sexual assault programs across the state. christine is a cum laude graduate of the new york university school of law. she came to alaska in 1993, clerked for sitka superior court judge larry zurvus, and worked for alaska legal services in fairbanks and has been with andy vsa for 20 years doing this really really important work. her demeanor was once described by a reporter as, quote clark kent like, which i would agree with which means she has super powers to help