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Anchorage officials press for port funding as state budget negotiations continue
Summary
City lobbyist Wendy Chamberlain and an administration representative told the Anchorage Assembly’s legislative committee that the Anchorage delegation is pressing for capital dollars for the Port of Anchorage and seeking housing aid, while the state budget heads to conference committee and a federal port grant announcement is expected.
At a legislative committee work session, Anchorage officials said the city is actively pressing for state and federal support for the Port of Anchorage and continuing to seek housing dollars even as the state operating and capital budgets are negotiated in Juneau.
"Appreciate it, and lots happening in Juneau," Wendy Chamberlain, the city's state lobbyist, said in the session, giving an overview of House and Senate activity on the operating and capital budgets and noting both additions for behavioral health and…
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