0:35
Paul McDonough
128:38 - 129:14
"the state undermined our own justification, and so this Amendment, and the reason I'm taking over the Lessons Amendment is not to remove those as priority. I think they'll need to be brought back, but it's because it's this dollar amount. $2.78 Million is nearly identical to what we said we recovered from the first year of closing Campbell."
“the state undermined our own justification, and so this Amendment, and the reason I'm taking over the Lessons Amendment is not to remove those as priority. I think they'll need to be brought back, but it's because it's this dollar amount. $2.78 Million is nearly identical to what we said we recovered from the first year of closing Campbell.”
- Speaker
- Paul McDonough
- Timestamp
- 128:38 – 129:14
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 7, 2026
From the transcript
And I think secondarily, um, we can litigate, we can ask administration for timelines. If this is a restoration in the year 2027-28 because of an impossibility, we can look at that later. But really, the state undermined our own justification, and so this Amendment, and the reason I'm taking over the Lessons Amendment is not to remove those as priority. I think they'll need to be brought back, but it's because it's this dollar amount. $2.78 Million is nearly identical to what we said we recovered from the first year of closing Campbell.
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