Anchorage Assembly to vote Nov. 17 on eight board appointments and marijuana license renewals

Mayor Suzanne LaFrance has asked the Anchorage Assembly to confirm Don Krohn and Richard Parry to new terms on the Retiree Medical Funding Program Trust for Police Officers and Firefighters at its Nov. 17 meeting, according to the appointment memorandum. Their current terms end Dec. 31, and the new ones would run through 2029.

Krohn ran unopposed for the Police Department seat. Parry defeated Andrew Provencio for the Fire Department seat. The trust board accepted the election results Oct. 26. Krohn, the board's chair, is seeking a fifth term.

In an Aug. 13 letter, Parry cites six years on the board and says investment fees were cut by $30,000 a year over the past three years.

Six more board confirmations are on the agenda. LaFrance appointed Randall P. Burns, president of Retired Public Employees of Alaska since July 2021, to a vacant seat on the Election Commission, with a term through October 2028. She reappointed Branwen Collier, Khalial Withen and Trevor Storrs, Alaska Children's Trust CEO since 2012, to the Child Care and Early Education Fund Board, Jennifer Griffis to the Library Advisory Board and Leslie Vines to the Municipal Women's Commission.

All of the items are on the consent agenda.

One resolution would waive the city's protest of state license renewals for King Street Cult, a cultivator, and Highpothermia, a retailer. The protest deadline is Dec. 21.

A second resolution would approve 2026-2028 municipal renewals and waive protest of state renewals for Denali Fire Black LLC, a cultivator, retailers The Tree House AK and Tip Top, and manufacturers Denali Fire Extracts and Supherb. It sets that protest deadline at Dec. 1.