
Assembly Member · Anchorage Assembly · District 4
9 articles · 20 transcripts · 20 clips
Born and raised Alaskan. East High graduate. Fifteen years as policy advocate, community organizer, pastor, and nonprofit leader. Focus on housing, childcare, and transportation. Term expires 2028.
“going back to the audit findings, and this is really sort of an internal business question, but I think it's germane. a lot of those findings were really related to some challenges with contract administration and capacity.”
“The problem that we are trying to solve is Once more. Housing supply. That is the point of what we are doing with the Missing Middle Housing Opportunity Overlay.”
“when I look at a feasibility study and there's an entire paragraph that says, you know, the mobile outreach team is the service line with the least amount of billable revenue associated given the target population of the service line, and then there's a question at the end about operational impacts if additional grant funding isn't made available. I have questions about sustainability when it sounds like we're shifting harder into that mobile outreach model.”
“So I just want us to be clear about both of those things as we're contemplating this change.”
“is the nexus point for planning for the state and also our local government”
“A 5% stackable preference for a $100,000 contract is $10,250 difference”
“A 5% stackable preference for a $100,000 contract is $10,250 difference”
“local preference already exists in the world of ITB, of invitations to bid, and that would be stackable with this particular preference, which means that a local veteran would have an additional layer of preference over a veteran who might be bidding from out of state”
“do you have a sense, you know, based on sort of this data set that we're building, what the, what the true demand is for shelter at this point? And I think looking at, looking at our utilization rates, I mean, and to your point that 93% is full or greater, it does make me wonder, you know, where, where should we be looking? What should our capacity, what should our real capacity be?”