0:53
Yarrow Silvers
17:17 - 18:10
"can we realistically say that there's no economic impacts, or is that just kind of a hopeful, well, we don't have many resources, and so we hope we can squeeze this in to all the departments, and we hope we can squeeze this into all the trainings that we already have available because we know we don't have a lot of resources. And so is that— is no economic effect, is that realistic, or is that a hopeful kind of let's not look at this too closely"
“can we realistically say that there's no economic impacts, or is that just kind of a hopeful, well, we don't have many resources, and so we hope we can squeeze this in to all the departments, and we hope we can squeeze this into all the trainings that we already have available because we know we don't have a lot of resources. And so is that— is no economic effect, is that realistic, or is that a hopeful kind of let's not look at this too closely”
- Speaker
- Yarrow Silvers
- Timestamp
- 17:17 – 18:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 14, 2026
From the transcript
Do we know what that is? I guess what I'm trying to understand here is, can we realistically say that there's no economic impacts, or is that just kind of a hopeful, well, we don't have many resources, and so we hope we can squeeze this in to all the departments, and we hope we can squeeze this into all the trainings that we already have available because we know we don't have a lot of resources. And so is that— is no economic effect, is that realistic, or is that a hopeful kind of let's not look at this too closely because we know we don't have the resources? I think it's a fair question. I think that the The economic impact for all commissions is something that we have not really talked through and what they require in order to ensure that they function effectively.
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