0:16
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.”
- Speaker
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 16:37 – 16:54
- 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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