Kimberly Rash
26:46 - 27:15
"as of right now, if you look at those financials, they ended in July of this year, so the municipality is not providing any other funding for this operation. So They are sustainable because they're not receiving any other funding."
“as of right now, if you look at those financials, they ended in July of this year, so the municipality is not providing any other funding for this operation. So They are sustainable because they're not receiving any other funding.”
- Speaker
- Kimberly Rash
- Timestamp
- 26:46 – 27:15
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
Okay, so what I'm trying to figure out is, is this a sustainable model in that at some point all of the costs could potentially be covered by insurance? Yeah, so as of right now, if you look at those financials, they ended in July of this year, so the municipality is not providing any other funding for this operation. So They are sustainable because they're not receiving any other funding. And really, that funding was just to start up, so to get the personnel in place because this is such a new endeavor for us. But as of right now, they're not receiving any additional funding.
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