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Ryan O'Shaughnessy

8:05 - 8:24

“the CBJ is currently operating under an emergency declaration, and the intent and the purpose of that is to utilize resources that wouldn't be available to us as a local government ordinarily.”
Timestamp
8:05 – 8:24
Community
Alaska News
Location
Juneau
Captured at
July 9, 2026

From the transcript

Sure, yeah, thanks, Ashley. So I just wanted to share a little bit about the effect of emergency declarations, and the CBJ is currently operating under an emergency declaration, and the intent and the purpose of that is to utilize resources that wouldn't be available to us as a local government ordinarily.

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