Cathy Giessel
9:01 - 9:30
"So he is declining to be present today also. However, we have Mr. Randy Raro, Executive Director of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, otherwise known as AIDA, present."
“So he is declining to be present today also. However, we have Mr. Randy Raro, Executive Director of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, otherwise known as AIDA, present.”
- Speaker
- Cathy Giessel
- Timestamp
- 9:01 – 9:30
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
So he is declining to be present today also. However, we have Mr. Randy Raro, Executive Director of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, otherwise known as AIDA, present. So I appreciate his presence. I also want to make it known that I do have legal counsel online, Claire Radford and Emily Nauman, as well as Sonya Kawasaki. So the order of this meeting today, this is a very complicated subject.
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