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Photos: Walker-Mallott transition conference

Gov.-elect Bill Walker over the weekend continued preparations to take office on Dec. 1, with a member of his transition team asking top officials in the Parnell Administration to submit resignation letters and more than 250 Alaskans attending a transition conference to lay out a policy roadmap for the incoming administration.

On tear sheets taped across classrooms at the University of Alaska Anchorage, experts and stakeholders in 17 areas including oil and gas, fiscal policy and health care made dozens of recommendations for Walker to consider, including suspending some of Alaska's long-pending mega-projects for a rigorous cost-benefit review and that efforts to raise state revenue consider other sources before the new oil-production tax is revisited.

Walker's staff has said the transition conference, typically held before a new governor assumes office, will cost about $150,000. The recommendations will be assembled in roughly two weeks or less, in a report to the new governor that will be publicly available, organizers said.

Walker said late Sunday he was looking forward to seeing the recommendations.

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