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Glenn Steiger

Glenn Steiger

Retired executive consultant for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) and former general manager/CEO of municipal utilities including Alameda Municipal Power and Glendale Water & Power.

Jul 28, 2026

12:47
What did you consider important as a skill sets of the building contractors that you invited to build on your properties?
12:53
Building on what Jeff said, the personal interaction is very, very, very important.
12:58
You can't just have a typical business type of relationship.
13:02
It's more than that.
13:03
And to give you some history, my own history, I was very fortunate in that I actually lived on the reservation for a few years, so I got to understand their culture on a very, very personal basis and recognized how important things like the land is to them.
13:18
It's critical.
13:19
But in doing projects, the kind of projects we did, of course, were utility-related, either transmission lines or primarily large solar plants, it required the personal interaction at a number of different levels, and that started with what they call the chapters.
15:34
Could you talk a little bit more about that? And then we'll ask Jeff to give his opinion on that as well, the challenges that created for him as a builder, so.

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