Thea Agnew-Bemben
29:29 - 30:12
“We also got their approval for accepting some money from the state, which is allowing us to add our surge beds earlier this year than we did last year.”
- Speaker
- Thea Agnew-Bemben
- Timestamp
- 29:29 – 30:12
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
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From the transcript
Hi everyone. Yeah, there were a few other things that are pertinent to this group on the Assembly agenda last night. We also got their approval for accepting some money from the state, which is allowing us to add our surge beds earlier this year than we did last year. So last year we started to add surge beds at shelter kind of like around October 20th, I think, was our first batch and then we kept adding and the last batch was not until December 22nd, I think, and you all remember that was a very cold time of year and we were kind of scrambling because we, you know, like Laila said, we really weren't supposed to go over 150. We had to get an emergency approval to do that.
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