Erin Baldwin Day
119:08 - 119:14
“we are incredibly lean when it comes to our fire operations.”
- Speaker
- Erin Baldwin Day
- Timestamp
- 119:08 – 119:14
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
Their population is only slightly larger than ours, 329,000. And they also are partially state-funded when it comes to their operations. And then there's some interesting comparisons in Pennsylvania and Minnesota, where the funding model includes local and state or local and county money, and the operations— operational numbers in terms of staffing are much higher. So like 459 sworn officers, 626 in the fire department. So I just wanted to put that out there that we are incredibly lean when it comes to our fire operations.
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