Cathy Giessel
63:14 - 64:03
"we also asked for DNR to respond to that letter, the committee's previous letter, and also the legal memo provided by our nonpartisan attorneys. And, um, we have received no response yet."
“we also asked for DNR to respond to that letter, the committee's previous letter, and also the legal memo provided by our nonpartisan attorneys. And, um, we have received no response yet.”
- Speaker
- Cathy Giessel
- Timestamp
- 63:14 – 64:03
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
And I note that during that, in that letter, we also asked for DNR to respond to that letter, the committee's previous letter, and also the legal memo provided by our nonpartisan attorneys. And, um, we have received no response yet. Thank you, Ms. Kawasaki. Uh, to complete that timeline, on September 1st, that second letter, by the way, was sent later in September, but on September 1st, the committee did submit to the Department of Natural Resources a public records request. In it, we requested all of the data that led to the conveyance of this 20,000 acres, but in addition, we had noted 4 other land conveyances, substantial land conveyances, that were being made to Alaska Housing Finance Corporation.
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