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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Tyler Young “That person has not indicated that they wish to speak at this time. Okay, I am closing public hearing.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026

Tyler Young “Nobody's here. Anybody online that wants to speak? We have one person online. To the person online, if you press star 3 on your keypad phone, it will raise your hand and we will begin the process of speaking if you wish to speak.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026

Chris Kerlin

“A topographic narrative was submitted by the surveyor pursuant to MSB 4320.281, and it is at Exhibit C.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026

Chris Kerlin

“The request is to create 2 lots from Parcel 2, 40-acre exemption resolution number 2017-15. The petitioner's request of variance from MSB 4320.140, physical access. The variance request can be found at Exhibit B with Questions A through C answered.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026

Owen Dix

“Owen Dix, Resolute Land Surveying, for the petitioner. I just wanted to say thank you to the Planning Board for your service, and thanks to the planning staff for all your diligent efforts. And if there's any questions, I'm here.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026

Chris Kerlin

“Legal access and usable area exists. Staff recommends approval of the variance requests from 4320-140 Physical Access and the preliminary plat of Deception Bluff based on these 5 findings of fact and 7 conditions of approval.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026

Sean Case “if it does have some of those limiting capabilities that moves it outside of the exigent circumstance category, we would be able without this to use license plate reader to potentially find that vehicle, conduct a lower-risk traffic stop to confirm what we think may not be a bomb call, but still make contact and do that investigation”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sydney Scout “I have real concerns about ALPR data being used to enforce registrations that are out of date, crimes of poverty, things that are not harmful to the public and top priority issues in our community.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “I want additional protections for the public while, as best as we can, not hampering the tools that our police need. And, and I don't see that the case has been made that this is a hamper as an amendment.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Daniel Volland “this provides that the Anchorage Police Department shall not share ALPR data info with the Department of Motor Vehicles without the prior approval of the assembly by resolution.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sean Case “The fact that we— that we're mobile and we're not fixed in our license plate readers. The fact that we have the 14-day retention. It's not a pooled network. We know who's querying it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “So when does the quantity of pings become from the public to a private sphere?”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sydney Scout “I've heard that this is a duplicative amendment, So I'll join some of my colleagues in voting no and hope I can— or I can withdraw it. I'll withdraw it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sean Case “Uh, through the Chair, Member Martinez, since July of 2026, the Real Time Crime Center has been involved in 1,026 police responses. Of those 1,026 cases, 89 of them, or 9%, have used automated license plate readers.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “But I would be more concerned if we had the rate of usage of the license plate readers at a higher percentage, that would be very concerning to me because essentially it seems that we are able to still be police, police able to still do their jobs without necessarily all of the most modern tools even being utilized”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “That's a pretty low percentage. So it's kind of, I just, I wanted to step back from that. It seems like the arguments here have been made that this particular type of constraint would be limiting to police operations, but the police operations are pretty limited with respect to usage of this technology already.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “And so why wouldn't that be a concern for us? Similarly, that was a concern in the other case. Why wouldn't that be a concern for us?”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “On a vote of 5 to 7, um, Amendment Number 11 has failed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sydney Scout “I do not want to allow for any technology that we are building out here to be used to arrest people, to put them in a situation where they are being pressured to self-deport”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “On 11 to 1, AO 2026-S as amended has passed the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Teresa Roble

“The upcoming fiscal year 2027 performance proposes 69.5% for homelessness and 12.9% for prevention from the alcohol tax.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Daniel Volland “a court case, United States v. Kyle, with U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Hill of the Northern District of Oklahoma ruling that a law enforcement officer's warrantless search of historical automated license plate reader data violated the Fourth Amendment.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Teresa Roble

“In closing, ACT urges the Assembly to rebalance alcohol tax allocations towards prevention, return ASD preschool funding to the alcohol tax at the full $2 million so the ACE Fund could be fully funded”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “We will also continue our budget public hearings to the November 17th meeting, uh, after which we will be closing the hearings at that meeting and debating amendments and then approving the FY27 budget.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “I think it's challenging when we as public officials will use unscrupulous communication methods to get a point across.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Sydney Scout “I will note that this item was on the addendum, and so we really didn't get much time to review it. I actually do have concerns with both sections 2 and sections 4”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Keith McCormick “when these cases get overturned, we're going to catch hundreds of people doing terrible, terrible crimes, get them locked up, and then the prosecution is going to be turned over because we're going to have to go back and appeal these back because we have violated someone's constitutional rights, and they're all going to walk free.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Jade Powell “This could potentially look like the loss of specialty units in the police department like the HOPE or Mobile Intervention Teams. I was stunned, speechless when I read this.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “On 11 to 1, AO 2026-S as amended has passed the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Suzanne LaFrance “This year we faced a $15 million budget gap. We were able to close that gap through a combination of one-time funding, targeted adjustments, and by cutting positions that we could eliminate because we had rebuilt municipal services. However, big challenges remain ahead as we prepare for future budget discussions and consider potential cuts in the years to come.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Yarrow Silvers “Chief Case confirmed that APD's 14-day policy does not apply to body-worn cameras and dash cameras. And that's where my concern comes in.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Tiffany Briggs “Recover Alaska respectfully asks the assembly to do three things. First, fund $2 million in competitive community grants to reduce the harms of alcohol and fund prevention, upstream prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Second, return ASD Pre-K funding to the alcohol tax and reinstate early literacy.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “Okay, motion by Mr. Vohland to continue the public hearing, uh, to the meeting of November 17th, second by Miss Baldwin Day.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Jade Powell “I've seen the work that the HOPE and MIT teams do firsthand, including responding to incidents involving the homeless youth I work with, and it is an essential core cost-saving service that the city provides that provides both better outcomes and avoided costs to other city services. It is laughably misguided to even float the possibility of this cut.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Suzanne LaFrance “I urge support of the S version of AO 2026 -108, an approach that both enables modern policing tools and provides strong safeguards for privacy and accountability.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “Speaking of the budget, tonight is the second public hearing on the 2027 budget. That's items 14A through 14H on the agenda. We will be prioritizing those items this evening after dinner.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “on a vote of, uh, 10 to 1, item AR— sorry, I don't have it in front of me anymore, uh, AR 2026-328 passes the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Kameron Perez-Verdia “that was one of the worst examples of policy development from the very beginning, for how— from how it got introduced to the public, to the entire process, to how it ended.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Sherman Powell

“The labor list includes dog poop pickup, weed whacking, general cleanup, and bathroom cleaning. I don't have any ideas to raise revenue because I don't believe children's sports should be seen as a revenue source for the city. I would suggest the city council instead look into methods to reduce expenses. I would suggest use of parent volunteers use of give-back hour volunteers, use of Boys and Girls Scout volunteers, and finally, the use of temporary on-call labor in place of full-time staff.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Sherman Powell

“At that meeting, the city estimated labor costs are over $4,122 for the season. The city estimated water and dumpster fees to be $1,234 for the season. These numbers have likely gone up with the increase, but the new number has not been broken down and presented to the council. The labor utility costs presented in April were very high, and now the overall cost increased by over 18%.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Sherman Powell

“I'm here to talk about my concern about fee increases that impact Cordova Little League. I'm a year-round resident who pays sales tax, a homeowner who pays property tax, and a gill netter who pays fish tax.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Mike Mickelson “I'm thinking of this as we're most likely about to get a bunch of public comment about some of the things that were talked about in the last budget section and the last council meeting. So I feel like it might be in our interest to have some ideas of things that we could maybe compromise on in the event that we do come up with more money than we think we're going to.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Mike Mickelson “this question is in regard to some of the public comment that we've gotten and we're about to get at this meeting for things like the library or Little League or swimming or whatnot. So, What happens when— where is the money coming from for these non-enterprise funds when they go over budget?”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Marianne Bishop

“this is really necessary for the staff to stay current with library practices, to be able to build professional connections, strengthen the library programming, and improve our collection management. So I would ask that you please approve our budget requests, and including those increases for for the books and periodicals and for staff travel and training and professional development.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Sherman Powell

“the city council is headed toward a decision that will harm a beautiful thing in Cordova. The city's assertion that the maintenance and services provided for the Little League equals $6,644 is shocking to me. The fees were not broken down in the council's packet, so I went back to the budget workshop on April 9th this year.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Sherman Powell

“The Parks and Rec Commission needs to be looped in so they can help inform council about community priorities. The Little League Board needs to be involved and genuinely heard.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Marianne Bishop

“we're asking instead now for $13,222. This would be to replace aging and damaged materials, to strengthen early literacy.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026

Marianne Bishop

“right now we're in a bare bones budget for personnel. We just have 2 employees there and then some of Ashley's salary is paid from it too. But the 2 increases that I want to bring to your attention tonight that we're asking for is an increase originally what is showing in the budget right now is $9,000 for books and periodicals.”

Cordova: November 4, 2026, Council Work Session, PH, & Regular Meeting · Nov 4, 2026