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Thea Agnew-Bemben

78:14 - 78:39

“I think as we move into really this, the months before budget season, I think we also need to have a conversation about what it looks like to reduce this system. And I'm not saying that because I personally want that to happen. I'm saying it because this is an area that has grown very significantly in the last 5 years in our budget.”
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This is a bigger topic, but I wanted to bring it up here because it's going to keep coming up. I think I appreciate the picture of kind of what would it cost to fund this whole system. I think as we move into really this, the months before budget season, I think we also need to have a conversation about what it looks like to reduce this system. And I'm not saying that because I personally want that to happen. I'm saying it because this is an area that has grown very significantly in the last 5 years in our budget.

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