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Kathy Bolling

89:55 - 90:19

"If it just caps at, uh, $0.7 mil, that's already not enough."

If it just caps at, uh, $0.7 mil, that's already not enough.
Speaker
Kathy Bolling
Community
Alaska News
Location
Ketchikan
Captured at
July 9, 2026

From the transcript

I think there's some talk about, about that. If it just caps at, uh, $0.7 mil, that's already not enough. Yeah, so, um, yeah, so yeah, it would—. It's, it's definitely something we're, uh, thinking through. And just so that we kind of get some kind of an idea of how to respond when people ask those kind of questions.

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