Thea Agnew-Bemben
30:14 - 31:02
“I feel like we're much better set up this year thanks to accepting the state money and the Health Department did some really good budgeting and planning to add beds. We're going to be adding beds now from between now and the end of November to get us up to our full surge.”
- Speaker
- Thea Agnew-Bemben
- Timestamp
- 30:14 – 31:02
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
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From the transcript
And also we're scrambling to find the money. So I feel like we're much better set up this year thanks to accepting the state money and the Health Department did some really good budgeting and planning to add beds. We're going to be adding beds now from between now and the end of November to get us up to our full surge. So I'm really happy that we have that funding in place and then in the Mayor's budget, we've asked for that funding for, so we can carry that on in the, in the first part of 2027. The other thing that we're doing pretty diligently is using our coordinated outreach teams to do outreach in areas where we know we have people sleeping outside so that we can prioritize them for these beds as they come available.
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