Brooke Sanderson
275:02 - 276:10
“They sent us some comparable spaces from Fairbanks and Anchorage. We obviously told them that that's not a good comparison to the rural villages. Um, and then in one of the meetings recently, they pulled up, um, the Galena School District website has information on housing options for their teachers, and they were citing the rents for those homes.”
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- Brooke Sanderson
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- 275:02 – 276:10
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From the transcript
Um, we, we work really well with a lot of our federal agencies, and it seems like every time, um, they've been in those meetings, they either haven't fully reviewed the information we've given them, um, Or, um, like I said, they're, they're giving us new people every time, and I don't exactly know the reason why. Um, we've also had some experience where, um, well, like we said, we, we just want to know why they're rejecting it, what their proposed rate is. And they sent us some comparable spaces from Fairbanks and Anchorage. We obviously told them that that's not a good comparison to the rural villages. Um, and then in one of the meetings recently, they pulled up, um, the Galena School District website has information on housing options for their teachers, and they were citing the rents for those homes.
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