Anna MacArthur
34:00 - 34:43
“I would encourage expediency, if possible, around the issue because of the area ID is the next step for the federal administration to take.”
- Speaker
- Anna MacArthur
- Timestamp
- 34:00 – 34:43
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 26, 2026
From the transcript
I'm not sure how long it would take the city to go through all the steps and then the following deliberative process that would accompany it. I would encourage expediency, if possible, around the issue because of the area ID is the next step for the federal administration to take. We don't know when that would occur. It is considered very overdue and could be coming soon, in that if a position— if a resolution was passed before that, it would have a better chance of affecting the process. And I think we've seen with many processes, including federal, that trying to keep areas out is often easier than once they are included, trying to extract them.
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