Kimberly Rash
42:04 - 42:41
“the way that we staggered it with the funding that we have is that we increased every other week, and so our next surge will start at East 56 next week, and then it will go every other week until we get up to 200 by the end of November.”
- Speaker
- Kimberly Rash
- Timestamp
- 42:04 – 42:41
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
And the way that we staggered it with the funding that we have is that we increased every other week, and so our next surge will start at East 56 next week, and then it will go every other week until we get up to 200 by the end of November. As of last year, we didn't surge up to 200 until almost the end of December. And so again, it would be, it's always dependent on, you know, the population and the weather and really what we're seeing there. Any questions on surge? I have a question.
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