Betsy Wood
53:52 - 54:04
“the intent right now is that we're looking at for each cycle that opens, you may submit 5 applications. That doesn't mean 5 applications over the life of the program.”
- Speaker
- Betsy Wood
- Timestamp
- 53:52 – 54:04
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- September 14, 2026
From the transcript
Yeah, good job. And then I'm also seeing some questions here around, you know, the, the 5 applications, and I just, I think it's been answered some in the chat, but I want to say, you know, this is a reflection of how, how we're growing and building the program, right? I think every time we go through this process, we're going to learn a lot and we're going to identify areas that we'd like to try and see how does it work if we do it this way. And I think, you know, the intent right now is that we're looking at for each cycle that opens, you may submit 5 applications. That doesn't mean 5 applications over the life of the program.
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