Anna Brawley
25:37 - 25:58
“it took basically the entire session convincing legislators, especially Anchorage legislators, one, that it's a statewide problem, and two, that their inaction was costing us locally.”
- Speaker
- Anna Brawley
- Timestamp
- 25:37 – 25:58
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
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From the transcript
And so anyway, so we have crunched those numbers, they're out of date. And that was, we did just to say, we were successful in getting a $4 million grant to run our Midtown shelter at that time. And it took basically the entire session convincing legislators, especially Anchorage legislators, one, that it's a statewide problem, and two, that their inaction was costing us locally. And so, so I think, kudos to them for funding it. It was a one-time funding, but yeah, I think that that's a conversation again that we've had and we will continue to have, so I appreciate you bringing it up.
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