0:44
Ryan Anderson
32:26 - 33:10
"Director Pinon hit on it a bit with the budget and the cost of energy and how that just goes across the board, you know, to so many different things, because when the cost of energy picks up everything, the cost of everything goes up. And so working through that, I think, is going to be important for us"
“Director Pinon hit on it a bit with the budget and the cost of energy and how that just goes across the board, you know, to so many different things, because when the cost of energy picks up everything, the cost of everything goes up. And so working through that, I think, is going to be important for us”
- Speaker
- Ryan Anderson
- Timestamp
- 32:26 – 33:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- May 22, 2026
From the transcript
The other piece I wanted to hit on, and I know we're going a little bit beyond right now the time, but it is lunchtime, so I'm going to go a little bit longer, I think, on this one. But it's really that looking forward into the future as we go forward, you know, there's going to be challenges. We all know that. I mean, I think, you know, Director Pinon hit on it a bit with the budget and the cost of energy and how that just goes across the board, you know, to so many different things, because when the cost of energy picks up everything, the cost of everything goes up. And so working through that, I think, is going to be important for us, and also recognizing, you know, we're a big state agency, we're out on the front lines, we're interacting with people in a lot of different ways, but recognizing there's going to be stresses out there for people.
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