Anna Brawley
40:43 - 41:01
"The mayor has an opportunity to veto our decisions if she chooses to do that, and then we have the opportunity to override that veto. So the buck literally stops with us. And this is one of our biggest and hardest jobs in a scenario that we're in right now."
“The mayor has an opportunity to veto our decisions if she chooses to do that, and then we have the opportunity to override that veto. So the buck literally stops with us. And this is one of our biggest and hardest jobs in a scenario that we're in right now.”
- Speaker
- Anna Brawley
- Timestamp
- 40:43 – 41:01
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
The mayor has an opportunity to veto our decisions if she chooses to do that, and then we have the opportunity to override that veto. So the buck literally stops with us. And this is one of our biggest and hardest jobs in a scenario that we're in right now. So I think that's something— the gravity of that, I think, should not be lost on folks here. And it is the other thing, kind of the layer sitting over all of this conversation.
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