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Trevor Storrs

54:05 - 54:49

“we're constrained with 5.2 with this extra burden placed upon us that never existed when we were first creating and implementing programs.”
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Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
June 24, 2026

From the transcript

Well, a common theme that I'm hearing, obviously, which is not a surprise, is, and it's always been part of it, is how do we use these dollars to not just only have the greatest impact, but really getting to as much stabilization or longevity. So I appreciate Again, back to that analogy that we're not just feeding the line and how do we shorten it and recognizing we actually have to do both. And this is the hard part. We're constrained with 5.2 with this extra burden placed upon us that never existed when we were first creating and implementing programs. So, and what does this look like?

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