Jared Gardner
325:41 - 326:00
"we're legislators, we're not, we're not department staff, right? The mayor ran an election, the mayor got elected, she filled the executive branch with people to do the job that she wants to do the job. That's, that's not us, that's not our role."
“we're legislators, we're not, we're not department staff, right? The mayor ran an election, the mayor got elected, she filled the executive branch with people to do the job that she wants to do the job. That's, that's not us, that's not our role.”
- Speaker
- Jared Gardner
- Timestamp
- 325:41 – 326:00
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 20, 2026
From the transcript
Just having— if the concern is that the bar is too high, I do worry that by taking out— or by making this, the bar is too low on the flip side. And that does create some ambiguity for department operations. And, you know, to Member Perez-Verdia's point earlier, we're legislators, we're not, we're not department staff, right? The mayor ran an election, the mayor got elected, she filled the executive branch with people to do the job that she wants to do the job. That's, that's not us, that's not our role.
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