Thea Agnew-Benben
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."
“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.”
- Speaker
- Thea Agnew-Benben
- Timestamp
- 78:14 – 78:39
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Captured at
- May 24, 2026
From the transcript
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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