0:37
Speaker A
17:57 - 18:35
"Just so that there's no, I think that this is going to, this for me, well, it's going to, uh, raise a lot of concern, at least anybody that owns property off the road or off the island, because it is, it is increases Jody shows on her other slide. So just so you know up front that we will have people here talking about the increase."
“Just so that there's no, I think that this is going to, this for me, well, it's going to, uh, raise a lot of concern, at least anybody that owns property off the road or off the island, because it is, it is increases Jody shows on her other slide. So just so you know up front that we will have people here talking about the increase.”
- Speaker
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 17:57 – 18:35
- Source
- Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
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- April 30, 2026
From the transcript
And just so that there's no, I think that this is going to, this for me, well, it's going to, uh, raise a lot of concern, at least anybody that owns property off the road or off the island, because it is, it is increases Jody shows on her other slide. So just so you know up front that we will have people here talking about the increase. So, but I think Jody, what Jody's showing is it's reasonable. She's going through this and showing the ratios, and I think she has a reasonable approach that's pretty defensible. And so then Papke's, for example, is the area-wide side, right?
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