From the transcript

Oh yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. So relevant to Mr. Martinez's question, we have a state statute that sort of speaks to it. Um, this statute goes into limitation on home rule municipalities, but it basically says the governing body should provide by order of the institution of elected officials by providing for a declaration of candidacy or for petition requiring the signatures of not more than 10 voters, or for both. Municipalities in Alaska can choose to do one or the other or both. And I guess the number— a number of them on the table that Mr. Handeland showed, showed a lot of them have 10, and those are the ones sort of bound by the limitation to have only 10, but the others can have more or Well, I would assume homu municipalities like us.

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