Kathy Bolling
21:16 - 21:55
"just last year, Assemblymember Arntzen made a move to, to pull all funding for the library, right? Reduce that library levy to zero and give notice to cancel the contract."
“just last year, Assemblymember Arntzen made a move to, to pull all funding for the library, right? Reduce that library levy to zero and give notice to cancel the contract.”
- Speaker
- Kathy Bolling
- Timestamp
- 21:16 – 21:55
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Ketchikan
- Captured at
- July 9, 2026
From the transcript
So, I think it's disingenuous to say we do not have representation. Because when you do a contract, we're buying this. Okay, this is what, what we expect. What I've heard over and over again, if you go back even like to 2014, 2015, And just last year, Assemblymember Arntzen made a move to, to pull all funding for the library, right? Reduce that library levy to zero and give notice to cancel the contract.
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