Ben Townsend
97:22 - 97:38
"I could probably count on one hand the number of people from the general public that have gone to those. As has been mentioned, I think that the building itself is a little tough to access."
“I could probably count on one hand the number of people from the general public that have gone to those. As has been mentioned, I think that the building itself is a little tough to access.”
- Speaker
- Ben Townsend
- Timestamp
- 97:22 – 97:38
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 13, 2026
From the transcript
I'm doing a lot, I'm doing what I can to in real time improve that audio, but there's limits computationally to just a bunch of white noise. So that That is, uh, one thing I wanted to address. The other regarding attendance, I've been going to these meetings for the last 2 years now. I could probably count on one hand the number of people from the general public that have gone to those. As has been mentioned, I think that the building itself is a little tough to access.
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