Beth Weldon
134:33 - 135:15
"if we get money for this, it would be one-time money, and we have a structural deficit in our budget, and we have $7-8 million that we have to come up with."
“if we get money for this, it would be one-time money, and we have a structural deficit in our budget, and we have $7-8 million that we have to come up with.”
- Speaker
- Beth Weldon
- Timestamp
- 134:33 – 135:15
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 17, 2026
From the transcript
Should we put it to the highest bidder and hope we get more money out of it? So I've been spending the last couple days trying to ask questions around town, and I can't find any hint of anybody that's even interested in this place. So that's swaying my decision slightly. But, uh, and I agree with Ms. Wall, our, um, if we get money for this, it would be one-time money, and we have a structural deficit in our budget, and we have $7-8 million that we have to come up with. So, um, but in my plug to vote carefully, um, so that's a tough one.
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