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Rachel Blakeslee

183:06 - 183:22

"it sounds like we don't know— we don't know if the school is legally, technically closed, but that's something that— because the paperwork hasn't been submitted to DEED because we haven't reached the fall, so that's something that legal needs to vet."

it sounds like we don't know— we don't know if the school is legally, technically closed, but that's something that— because the paperwork hasn't been submitted to DEED because we haven't reached the fall, so that's something that legal needs to vet.
Speaker
Rachel Blakeslee
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
July 7, 2026

From the transcript

Okay, so it sounds like we don't know— we don't know if the school is legally, technically closed, but that's something that— because the paperwork hasn't been submitted to DEED because we haven't reached the fall, so that's something that legal needs to vet.

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