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Kelly Bender

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"20 respondents, we know our communities necessarily always participate. That's this very empty room tonight."

“20 respondents, we know our communities necessarily always participate. That's this very empty room tonight.”
Speaker
Kelly Bender
Community
Alaska News
Captured at
October 20, 2026

From the transcript

Handicap Accessibility Clinic, and I really feel like— I hope you take the time to take this back to the community and really put a push on getting the community's input here, because I think that these numbers will change and maybe some new ideas will come up. But 20 respondents, we know our communities necessarily always participate. That's this very empty room tonight. But I think if you put something that's really important to them like that, that they can see tangible, that you'll get some, some more comments. So finding a new way to reach the community, I think, is really important.

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