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George Martinez

14:56 - 15:14

“I notice areas of regular, recurring maintenance problems with flooding for years on some of the areas that that seem to have the dots in my district.”
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Alaska News
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Anchorage, AK, USA
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From the transcript

So as we go back— one more, please. It's going. Right on. Yeah. I notice areas of regular, recurring maintenance problems with flooding for years on some of the areas that that seem to have the dots in my district.

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