Erin Baldwin Day
117:21 - 118:00
“I've gotten really interested recently in how we stack up against peer cities when it comes to things like fire and police. And so I just wanted to throw out, we don't really have any, like, coverage peers that I've been able to find in terms of, like, the, the land that we cover.”
- Speaker
- Erin Baldwin Day
- Timestamp
- 117:21 – 118:00
- 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
It won't factor into like how I'm evaluating the budget at all. And then my comment is I've gotten really interested recently in how we stack up against peer cities when it comes to things like fire and police. And so I just wanted to throw out, we don't really have any, like, coverage peers that I've been able to find in terms of, like, the, the land that we cover. But I found some really interesting population peers when it comes to fire and fire staffing. So if I did my math right, we have like 326 line firefighters And if we look at, if we look at cities with similar population, one of them is Plano, Texas.
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