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Bob Dole
27:31 - 27:50
"So where do we as a municipality lower the cost going forward? There's basically 4 areas we look at. First one, cut red tape."
“So where do we as a municipality lower the cost going forward? There's basically 4 areas we look at. First one, cut red tape.”
- Speaker
- Bob Dole
- Timestamp
- 27:31 – 27:50
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 28, 2026
From the transcript
We're up over $100 million in construction activity compared to last year. These are the metrics I look at to see how we're doing, just as kind of a barometer going forward. So where do we as a municipality lower the cost going forward? There's basically 4 areas we look at. First one, cut red tape.
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