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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Karen Norsworthy
“it seems to me we're kind of at that timeframe where we might want to take a look and making an adjustment there.”Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting · Jun 16, 2026
Joe Hayes
“I would prefer if we could do it late July because we're going to have to have another meeting. And to Karen's point about people turning off and budget season, I would prefer to do it as soon as everybody can, which sounds like sometime in July.”Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting · Jun 16, 2026
Pat Redmond
“if we made a change this year, it would be effective next— it wouldn't be effective until the next mayor, or the next election. So it'd be 2 years out? When's— how long is the mayor's term? This is Commissioner Hayes. It would be April 2027.”Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting · Jun 16, 2026
Karen Norsworthy
“get information on the salary from what the governor makes, I would say the chancellor, the school district superintendent, because looking at other government employees and not diving into the private sector. Yeah, I will work with the clerk because she'll be more versed in the process, so I'll coordinate with her. Okay, good. Yeah, and then I would say the mayor of Fairbanks, Juneau as well.”Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting · Jun 16, 2026
Elizabeth Appleby
“I'm almost leaning towards wanting to just respond to the questions on the data and bring back a revised draft where I know I've gotten at least some kind of legal counsel as well so that I can more accurately depict what I think is possible for changing this or or what our advice from them is.”Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - June 11, 2026 - 2026-06-11 18:30:00 · Jun 12, 2026
Elizabeth Appleby
“if you're a single-family owner, it's $710 to come for a public hearing here”Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - June 11, 2026 - 2026-06-11 18:30:00 · Jun 12, 2026
Jason Norris
“I'm also trying to find what is, what is the threshold that really matters? Where, where is it worth the time and effort to bring it before the body? And, and the money, you know, is significant for a lot of people.”Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - June 11, 2026 - 2026-06-11 18:30:00 · Jun 12, 2026
Elizabeth Appleby
“this would be a future public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission, and the Planning and Zoning Commission would make a recommendation to the Assembly as to the adoption of the AO.”Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - June 11, 2026 - 2026-06-11 18:30:00 · Jun 12, 2026
Speaker A
“Case 2026-0076 is postponed to a date uncertain.”Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - June 11, 2026 - 2026-06-11 18:30:00 · Jun 12, 2026
Jason Norris
“I was wondering, in B1, the increase from 5% to 10%, what was the logic behind that? Is it because you saw a large number of potential minor modifications that would have been approved if it was 10%? Or was it that you felt that that was reasonable to ask for in one bite?”Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - June 11, 2026 - 2026-06-11 18:30:00 · Jun 12, 2026
Speaker B
“natural burial was kind of a new, uh, prospect for me, something I hadn't considered or really heard of. Sounds very interesting. It sounds like you guys have a lot of people interested in support in that, but this— that's not what this ordinance is about. This ordinance is about disposing of these 10 acres to a nonprofit for free.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker B
“The, the business plan sounds great. There's, you know, 300 plots per acre, about 10 acres, $5,000, looking at close to $15 million. You have a lot of people interested. So why Do we need to give away this land for free?”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“There is also an S version establishing the Anchorage Public Safety Partnership Commission. Public hearing on this item was continued from the meeting of May 26th, so folks who would like to testify, I will also remind folks that if you have previously testified, you are welcome to testify again, but you must keep your comments limited to the changes in the new substitute version.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“The second thing to say is, in terms of having a work session in the future, I think the assumption would not be that we are picking one version or the other. I know my co-sponsor and I have talked about potentially bringing forward another version, but not before we've had some sense from the body what direction you'd like to go”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“I will not support the motion that's on the floor. I don't believe it's respectful to the dozens of people who have showed up tonight and spoken out and made real requests over many, many months of deliberation.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“On a vote of 11 to 1, item AO2026.72 passes the body.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“the mission again of the HLB land? To manage lands consistent with the comp plan and to benefit future and resident citizens of the municipality.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker B
“It's more important that this is done right than it's done fast. So I really want to go back and to— right now we have, let's see, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 amendments, 4 of which are about who's on this commission, 2 are about the powers of the commission, 2 are about how it's staffed, and one is, is, is a sunset amendment.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker B
“I think that I've heard enough from the public that if either of the versions that have been before us were to go forward, the preferred version, at least from the input that I'm receiving, is that original version.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“Creation of the Anchorage Public Safety Partnership Commission, AO 2026-62S, is on the agenda for the assembly's consideration. This ordinance would create a modern version of the Public Safety Advisory Commission that existed for many years. This commission would be a forum for the community and our public safety agencies to work together and come up with solutions to help make Anchorage a safer place for everyone to live.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“the motion on the floor is to reopen the public hearing and continue this item to the meeting of July 21st with the intent of holding a work session in that interim time.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“I do believe it is in the best interest of the public that we dispose of land that cannot be developed in any other way, given the slope, given the hydrology, uh, given the quality of the soils, uh, to do exactly the thing we've told the public we want them to do, and that is to be buried in a sanctioned space.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Speaker A
“Within the last 10 years, the Real Estate Department performed an analysis to determine whether this area was usable for residential development, and it was found that it would be extremely expensive and, um, and not suitable for residential development.”Assembly Regular - June 9, 2026 - 2026-06-09 17:00:00 · Jun 10, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“to be honest, the philanthropy and corporate, they're also strained. There isn't some magic relationship that's going to give us $2 million to do. So us hoping, uh, we're obviously always want to do that. I absolutely agree with Kevin, but usually that is one-time funding.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker A
“us being able to conduct that community needs assessment is really important to prioritize. That is where it opens the door for the partnerships to, you know, once we have data and can share that, that will open the door to see who's interested”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Jessica Simonson
“Is there any way if we say we can only just say, example, we can only give ASD $1 million so they can keep the other programs are important. Is there any way for that other million to come out of a different pocket”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Kevin Berry
“if a teacher leaves the sector or a kid gets kicked out of pre-K, that's a pretty permanent change. And we also then don't get data on what would have happened if they'd stayed in that program”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“how are you as an administration prioritizing prevention over tertiary? The homeless work is not prevention, it's tertiary. And the work that ASD and what we're doing actually hopefully will lessen the individuals that will find themselves in mental health distress, physical distress that then leads to homelessness and other issues.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker A
“it funded 8 different schools with a high-quality pre-K classroom. Students were selected by lottery based on the risk factors. So this is an area where we were really serving vulnerable populations”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“asking the ASD if they could present a budget and showing if they had— because right now it's $2 million, and I'd have to give this greater thought, but you get the concept. If you received $150— $1.5 million or $1.75 million, how would that impact the budget? What would be lost”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“if we fund ASD, that leaves us— and I'm just working off of $5 million, uh, give or take That leaves $3 million, which greatly changes how we put money out. Or we don't fund ASD, they don't have funding to fill that in. That's 8 classrooms with 100-plus, maybe 200-plus, I don't know, kids that would then lose that preschool.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“98% of the staff who participated said they were more likely to remain in the field, which is a high—”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026 05 20 Meeting Recording · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“my name is Lucy Hansen. I'm the CEO of the Polynesian Association of Alaska”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“Polynesian Association of Alaska started back in 2004 in a small office down here on the Thompson Building on 3rd Avenue”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“In 2021, when we had started our homeless and rental and rental and utility assistance program, when we first— that night when we first brought it to the community, I mean, the hall was full of people, and I didn't know that I know that we do need that service, but I didn't know how many families needed it. But when we went to sleep that night, I only— we woke up the next day, we had 15 applications, but our program can only accept 2 first applications that we receive per month because we don't have enough funding for it to help everybody.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“I'm looking for funding for any of those programs. You know, if you can fund me for the rental assistance program and utilities to keep people from getting evicted from their home, and that's what our program is for, for that, is to keep them from not evicting from their house.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“there's a need out there and there's work that nobody can see, only us. You know, and I want to share with you all, if you ever see my application come in at some point, somehow, you know, you think about what I, you know, what I do or what we do. We don't have any paid staff at all, not like other organizations that pay their staff.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“I used to work for the state of Alaska. I retired after 27 years with the state, and, um, I said I'm going to put my time into my nonprofit because I want to help my community. But then working with my community, it's not just my community that I see the need It's more than just Pacific Island community.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“This last May, we just completed our 21 years since we started our Asian and Pacific Island Heritage Month, and we did that down at the Park Strip last Saturday, even though it was cold, but It was a lot of people there. I think people were just dying to get out of the house, but it was a lot of people, about 1,500 people.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“We don't have employees. We have 21 members. Okay, we have members.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“all of us are volunteers through our community, through our organization. None of us are paid staff. We volunteer our services to the community.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“a lot of times that we do a project, we fundraise for that project, and if we don't have enough our board member will come in and say, okay, let's do another fundraising, or let's donate in to try to get this program going”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“PAWS scholarship and awards, 2021 to current, we awarded 16 students, received education scholarship of total of $19,200.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“390 Individuals, 42 families from 2 members to 10 members in the household. Rentals, 25 families. Electricity and gas, 16 families.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“up to now, we still have— we just helped 2 families last month on their electricity and their gas, but we still looking for funding to help the community.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“during COVID we also, not just my community, but we do peer leader navigator through ALP, and we have a lot of calls from a lot of other communities, not just specific Latin communities.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“right now we're close to about 35,000 of our Pacific Islander all over Alaska, and most of them, 75% or 80%, are here in Anchorage.”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026
Speaker C
“PAL also, um, through their education We started Pacific Island Education Scholarship in 2021, and currently we have 18 students that's already awarded for this scholarship, and that's about $21,600”Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting June 2026 · Jun 9, 2026