Paul McDonough
70:29 - 71:18
"I don't support the amendment as an amendment or an ability to conditionalize this moratorium."
“I don't support the amendment as an amendment or an ability to conditionalize this moratorium.”
- Speaker
- Paul McDonough
- Timestamp
- 70:29 – 71:18
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 18, 2026
From the transcript
And I think that the mechanism here doesn't sit well with me. I, I don't support the amendment as an amendment or an ability to conditionalize this moratorium. I do support a well-developed strategy to present value to the municipal government about funding our schools, and I'd like that to be a big part of the Finance Committee meeting that we develop. I'd like that to be a part of open discussion here, but I think if, if this passes and then the resolution itself passes, what we will have done is create some weird form of like a ticking time bomb when the original intent was to create an olive branch. So that's all I have, but thank you again.
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