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Michael Calhoon

59:15 - 59:39

“this isn't new. This has been in the code. This just makes it, in my opinion, tighter so that there isn't something two-thirds of the way through the development where they're going, oh, well, wait a second, we can't afford to do this.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Seward
Captured at
October 12, 2026

From the transcript

They've had to pay back a lot of the, you know, half of the money on that program that that they've been, you know, front-funded. So it's, you know, portions of it you may consider it free, but this isn't new. This has been in the code. This just makes it, in my opinion, tighter so that there isn't something two-thirds of the way through the development development where they're going, oh, well, wait a second, we can't afford to do this. They've already known that up front.

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