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Speaker A

16:37 - 16:54

"I've been told there may be a working plan, but I have not been included in that conversation, so I cannot speak to how it is being funded."

“I've been told there may be a working plan, but I have not been included in that conversation, so I cannot speak to how it is being funded.”
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Speaker A
Community
Alaska News
Location
Petersburg
Captured at
June 12, 2026

From the transcript

That is correct. Okay. All right. And there's still, as far as funding for that, there's no source that you know of so far? I've been told there may be a working plan, but I have not been included in that conversation, so I cannot speak to how it is being funded.

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