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

Sheldon Fisher

“they are happening every 30 minutes. We patrol. And if you're familiar with the neighborhood, our— the location of the property is at the corner of Sitka and Fifth Avenue, and we patrol down Sitka Street across to Unger and back.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live · Oct 19, 2026

Brandy Eber “There's a reason why this is a conditional use permit versus a permitted use, and I don't think this use should be allowed on this site.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live · Oct 19, 2026

Lisa Stevens

“Since the opening in September of '25, our business has experienced significant deterioration in the surrounding environment, including multiple fires started in our dumpster and parking lot, creating serious risk of injury and property damage. Frequent— and this has happened as of this week— frequent issues with homeless shelter guests offering prostitution services to our customers and employees in the parking lot.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live · Oct 19, 2026

Cheryl Williams

“This commission has an incredible opportunity right now to stop 150 as an option, and it'll move back into the health department's zone.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live · Oct 19, 2026

Phil Johnson

“it was an immediate 500% increase, an immediate 500% increase from September of 2025.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live · Oct 19, 2026

Terry Holtman

“Their patrols are just a volunteer in a vest. They don't actually do anything. We've had to hire private security to actually make a meaningful presence.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live · Oct 19, 2026

Edith McKee “I also— the petitioner seems resistant to incurring the costs that would be necessary for them to provide a secure boundary to their facilities, such as the 10-foot fence.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live · Oct 19, 2026

Larry Terch “I have not had a chance to read through the substitute as that wasn't sent out, um, prior to the meeting and only Right before the meeting, was it placed on the dais?”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“So I commend the Mayor Pro Tem for quickly trying to find an alternate solution.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“the major concern that I had with it is that it conflated comp time or compensatory time with the utility on-call policy. And when you use the term comp time and you put it in the comp time code, in general you have to pay 1.5 times the actual hours worked, and that means the individual is work— is on the clock when they're working, and they get the right to choose between comp time or overtime.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Santa Claus “this particular ordinance addresses eligibility and accrual and on-call assignments and records. I want to make a point of this. This is different from the on-call for fire and police.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Thomas McGee

“I would highly recommend, since the attorney hasn't had a chance to give you an evaluation of it, that you would postpone this to the next meeting before you make a decision on it tonight.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Benny Williams “If he can give me the same quality of work, I'm going with the $18,000.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Larry Terch “I reached out to call service in Anchorage, um, and for less than $350 a month, we could put the utility department through a call center out of Anchorage so that those calls that came through that weren't of an emergency type nature could be answered and emailed to our utility rather than disturbing a utility worker at 1:00 AM.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Thomas McGee

“The public doesn't, so the public hasn't reviewed it, and I don't see any utility employees back there ready to speak on it. So it's just my recommendation that you postpone it till the next meeting.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Santa Claus “if I was actively in business here in North Pole and I heard this conversation this evening, I would be pretty disappointed. And under certain circumstances, I might be inclined to move my business elsewhere, and I would not like to see that happen personally.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Larry Terch “competition is competition, and competition is good. That sets the price down to the lowest bar for our city.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Santa Claus “there's been— in front of us here on the dais is a substitute for their particular ordinance that's before us right now. So it essentially be a thorough amendment of it, and it addresses some concerns that the city attorney had, and also that one of the utility workers brought to our attention today with a testimony”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“The Kenai case was in 1983. Since then, based on that case and the 3 cases I cited, the hiring cases, the contractor hiring cases, there are some municipalities who have memos from their attorneys recommending not to enforce their local bidder preferences because of the extreme risk of a constitutional challenge.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Benny Williams “I'd go with the one— do I want quantity or quality? And I check everybody out and make sure I get the best deal for my money.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Santa Claus “I take Mr. McGee's point that we might want to postpone this and give everybody on council an opportunity to review this material rather than make an instant, um, vote.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“They tried— I'll just briefly talk about the case. They tried to sell land only to city residents and then gave a benefit, a 5% benefit, to residents who have been there long-term. Ultimately, the Alaska Supreme Court said that was an unconstitutional disposal of land because of the local bidder preference, the local resident preference.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Larry Terch “And Mayor Terch? No. Would anyone like to change their vote? I have one.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“it became clear to me that that was not the intent. The intent was to provide some sort of fair compensation for the utility employees who are doing extraordinary work of being on call. And so that's what led to the substitute ordinance.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Santa Claus “if they're local businesses, they're already paying things like property taxes and other taxes here. So they're stimulating our economy.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“Fairbanks bidder then comes in and challenges the award and says it's unconstitutional, and that goes through the bid review process, usually to a judge, and then judge would say yes or no, and typically awards the bid to the lower bidder, which is both cheaper and a non-resident, and so city would have to pay, you know, less expenses.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“I share your opinion, and I wish I had a chance to look at this sooner than just before you got at the final reading.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“usually because it's a constitutional challenge, the city would also have to pay attorney's fees because there's usually constitutional claims are entitled to full attorney's fees.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Larry Terch “I contacted the attorney because first I did not feel as though the original version of this was legal, um, as we are dictating to our employees whether they could take comp time or choose overtime, which is in our code.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“I did just about an hour ago, Mr. Mayor, and I haven't had a chance to fully digest it.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“anytime a municipality or government in Alaska provides a local bidder preference, it's likely unconstitutional. I don't get to that conclusion lightly”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Santa Claus “I would like to, uh, substitute the, uh, this particular language for the, uh, ordinance.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Larry Terch “While we sit up here and we talk about overtaxation of our residents, we then turn around and say we're going to provide a bidder preference to our local businesses. To me, doesn't make a lot of sense. We're either on board or we're out into the water.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Robert Palmer

“I think the clerk said by 3 o'clock today, and so my goal was to get it to you by noon. If I will say, these types of ordinances are legally tricky, and I fully understand the policy.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Larry Terch “this is a lot of effort on something that we don't need inside of our city code. We already do this as a city. And, uh, I love our North Pole businesses, but this is not the right way to love on our North Pole businesses.”

North Pole: Regular Council Meeting October 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Jeff Brasel “thank you, Charlie, for the work on the block grant. I don't envy you in door knocking around here, so have fun with that.”

Houston: Special City Council Meeting 10.19.2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Jeff Brasel “Advanced a matching grant for the point— for the Joint Public Workstation 93 facility. Staff working on getting all the requirements completed. The next administration will need to finish this effort.”

Houston: Special City Council Meeting 10.19.2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Jeff Brasel “Funded Station 93 feasibility work. It was completed on October 4th, 2026.”

Houston: Special City Council Meeting 10.19.2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Terry Zell

“We have a subdivision all around us, and we thought it was really unfair to have traffic and perhaps stone people— you gotta know that's gonna happen— driving around when there might be children out there. And why, why upset your neighbors? So we said, let's just keep it at 8 o'clock.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Wade Long “Staff finds that the proposed conditional use permit amendment meets all applicable standards under MSB 17.60. Staff recommends approval of the requested 1-hour expansion of operating hours. Accordingly, staff is amenable to either of the following approaches, subject to the direction of the Planning Commission. Option 1, remove existing permit condition number 5 and allow operating hours at the owner's discretion, providing the facility remains in compliance with all applicable state and local regulations”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Kelly Allen “I will tell you, just reading the tea leaves here, I think this is a pretty reasonable request. You haven't had a violation in, you know, however long it's been, you never have had one.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Kelly Allen “I will ask you, um, so I found it interesting that you're asking to open an hour earlier when you close earlier than most stores. And so what was— what's that decision about? Is that the demographic?”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Brendan Carpenter “I think, um, just the fact that they've showed that they don't want to stay open so late, they did that themselves. I think the choice of 9 AM is prob— it's right after morning traffic, everybody trying to get out of the subdivision at 7 to 8. You open up at 9, so I'm inclined to agree with you.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Wade Long “State regulations currently permit marijuana retail facilities to operate between 8:00 AM 5:00 AM the following day. Or option 2, amend existing permit condition number 5 to allow the operate— to allow the hours requested by the applicant as follows: the hours of operation shall not exceed 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM daily.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Terry Zell

“My name is Terry Zell, and I'm one of the co-owners of Bad Grammar.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Wade Long “The hours of operation shall not exceed 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM daily.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Wade Long “A conditional use permit application has been submitted by Bad Grammar to modify the hours of operations for its permitted marijuana retail facility located within a 1,743-square-foot commercial building at 1150 North Helen Lane. The facility was originally approved under conditional use permit Resolution Number 17-020 on March 20th, 2017”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

Kelly Allen “I think, uh, the applicant kind of described why this particular location, that sort of limited time hours, makes a lot of sense. Um, so that would be my leaning, is that we would go with the, uh, sort of set in stone time frame.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 · Oct 19, 2026

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