Ben Townsend
97:39 - 98:11
"For me, when I went for the first time, I was pretty intimidated because it doesn't feel like a place that I should be in."
“For me, when I went for the first time, I was pretty intimidated because it doesn't feel like a place that I should be in.”
- Speaker
- Ben Townsend
- Timestamp
- 97:39 – 98:11
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 13, 2026
From the transcript
For me, when I went for the first time, I was pretty intimidated because it doesn't feel like a place that I should be in. And again, I feel like what has been done with these live streams is a really positive thing for the community to access local government, feel like they have a say. Tonight we've had 30 or so people watching the live stream. Sometimes we have 50, 60, and I know I say it every time, but I imagine if we had that many people physically here what that would feel like. And of course, when people feel like they have something to say, they come and they do so.
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