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Speaker B
11:07 - 11:26
"There'll be a recommendation from the borough to have that raise that cap on."
“There'll be a recommendation from the borough to have that raise that cap on.”
- Speaker
- Speaker B
- Timestamp
- 11:07 – 11:26
- Source
- Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- April 30, 2026
From the transcript
But however, without that exemption, they're going to hit the cap exemption. $1,200, So that might— some of that might just move over to that exemption. So it's not a direct correlation. There'll be a recommendation from the borough to have that raise that cap on. Yeah, and I have some slides on that.
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