Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
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Anna Brawley
“On a vote of 12 to 0 that amendment passes, the resolution as amended is now before us.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:23
Anna Brawley
“My name is April Ratchford. I'm the Anchorage local lead for Moms Demand Action. So we do a lot of gun violence prevention advocacy and I really want to thank members Park, Baldwin, Day and Martinez for sponsoring this resolution.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:16
Anna Brawley
“She was screaming, holding a cinder block over her head, tears streaming down her face. We ran outside as fast as we could to stop her before she damaged property, but we weren't in time. Marcella tried to calm her down and asked, what's wrong? Cassandra could only say one thing. They're after me.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:26
Anna Brawley
“An ordinance of the anchorage assembly recognizing June 5, 2026 as National Gun Violence Awareness Day in Anchorage and June 5 through the 7th, 2026 as Wear Orange weekend to honor all victims, survivors and families of gun violence.”Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026
0:37
Speaker B
“I suggested the AVT. I am probably one of the few people in the state that has sat at every side of these tables, um, the industry side, the muni side, and the legislative side. And I like the fact that we share in the benefits when things are going well and share in some of the risk when they're not.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
0:20
Speaker B
“My $150 is we're willing to negotiate to a point where we cover our costs and it will be significantly shorter than the $8.5 mil structure.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
1:00
Speaker G
“what I'm proposing is, versus fixing all the different variables at the tax structure level without the information from the inputs on how that tax structure looks, what I'm saying is I think it'd be more effective to allow that negotiation to happen between the borough and the producer”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
0:26
Speaker B
“Under the current terms, we're getting a lot closer to being kept whole, depending on the things we know and the things we don't know about the impacts of this project.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
0:18
Speaker A
“it's possible that we could be bringing the Finance Committee, I think, back to Juneau for amendments.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
0:59
Speaker G
“it's our responsibility as elected officials and you guys specifically as representatives that we look out for the best interests of all of our communities and that the resources that we have to deliver, whether they're to market or to our residents, are equally shared by us all.”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
0:31
Speaker G
“what the, the 2945 on the GTP would do, it would enable, um, uh, the buck stopping at the, uh, the producer, the state, and the North Slope Borough, um, at an administrative level. And I think that, that information sharing and understanding is important”House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026
0:35
Speaker B
“If you have somebody that's— that two people that are bidding that are both out of state and one happens to be a veteran, that is the only scenario where somebody out of state is is getting a preference over somebody local to Alaska. So I think that is an important distinction to make.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:04
Speaker B
“the S2 would reduce the preference by 60% for veterans.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:52
Speaker A
“At present, we take the best financial expert to send to the RCA for AWU and the bond counsel that we think will serve us the best, whether they're local or in Seattle. And we could change that, but I do think that is a, a big bite to take.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:40
Speaker A
“the way the current drafts before the S2 version are written, the veterans preference is tied solely to veteran status and not connected to Alaska at all. So if in the earlier scenario South Central Foundation, or whatever that company was, South Central Construction, was owned by someone who had served in Virginia Beach and had never been to Alaska before, they would get a preference.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:32
Speaker A
“What we have on the books now is only one kind of preference. We have only a local preference for invitations to bid only. And right now, it is based on a sliding scale. We give a 5% bid preference capped at $5,000 on purchases up to $166,000. We go to 3% if you're not to exceed $10,000 on purchases in the next rung, and then finally it caps out at a 2% preference not to exceed $20,000 on purchases over half a million.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:34
Speaker A
“if we're saying we're willing to pay more for certain services, why are we trying to grasp the widest range of discharges instead of saying like we value honorable discharges. Um, as someone that served, received an honorable discharge, I'm not seeing why we're going down to general under other than honorable circumstances.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:43
Speaker A
“the Request for Proposal process, or the RFP process, is typically used for professional services, lawyers, accountants, etc., or when we can't define the parameters of the thing we want so precisely that we can use the ITB process. Again, that's triggered when the cost is more than $50,000, and there we're not awarding just on the cheapest. We're outlining in each of those Request for Proposal packages a matrix of numerical evaluation factors.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:26
Speaker A
“Invitation to bid context, when you're evaluating bids, you would give a 5% bid preference not to exceed $50,000. Likewise, in the request for proposal context, you would then give a 5% preference on the available evaluation points when that's plausible.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:57
Speaker A
“In state law, the state procurement is that you get a 5% bid preference capped at $5,000, 10 times less than the $50,000 that's being proposed in the current versions, and it only goes to veterans who reside in Alaska or partnerships, LLCs, corporations that are majority Alaska-owned.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:45
Speaker A
“when we give any kind of preference, a local preference, a veterans preference, other communities have disadvantaged business entity preferences, disabled preferences, you are willing to pay more in the ITB context to advance that policy goal. In the RFP context, you're willing to go with not your preferred best option, but to the second or third place option, depending on who gets the preference, again, to advance that policy goal.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:34
Speaker B
“We do think that the 5-year window creates too narrow of a gap for veteran-owned businesses to be established, and more importantly, it includes or it excludes a significant portion of the veteran population.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:35
Speaker B
“the withdrawal from Afghanistan occurred in August of 2021 and the last combat troops left Iraq in December of 2021. And as I don't know if we have any history buffs in the room, but, uh, prior to that, uh, those, those dates, if you next slide, there is a significant amount of fighting that happened in those countries. Uh, and so the 5-year, the 5-year thing could exclude combat veterans.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:31
Speaker B
“applying a veteran-owned business to the RFP process is neither unheard of nor unworkable. Many places do it. Washington, DC, San Antonio, Miami-Dade County all provide for veterans preference in their process.”Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026
0:41
Bert Stedman
“The construction cost, Mr. Chairman, is highly— well, I think— Speculative. Speculative is a polite way of putting it.”SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026
0:27
Jesse Kiehl
“Capacity is a good read on the question. Wasn't my intended question, so I'll clarify. Assuming the Department of Revenue and/or DNR's fiscal analyst, commercial analyst folks have the brainpower you need, legally and practically, will you have access to all of that information?”SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026
0:17
Bert Stedman
“we'll have to wait until there's gas, first sale of gas, to know the price, or when do you— when does the department think they may know the price of this? Gas.”SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026
0:35
Bert Stedman
“we concluded after that meeting that the Department of Revenue and Natural Resources on the state level needs to put together an integrated financial model. And we had— we being LB&A had dialogue with administration and consultation with how the model works.”SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026
0:22
Bert Stedman
“The gas price of $1.50, I don't know what the gas price is, but we have a net tax system. I don't think that's gonna change.”SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026
0:35
Dan Stickel
“the core purpose of the legislation is to create a policy framework for replacing certain state and municipal property taxes with an alternative volumetric tax.”SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026
0:55
Dan Stickel
“our official spring revenue forecast conservatively does not include any revenue from the AK LNG project or related development. And so what we do here is we show If the project were to proceed without tax modifications under our baseline set of assumptions around the project, which include a $46.2 billion real 2026 capital cost”SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026
0:32
Bert Stedman
“the model that's the question or the operators of it. It's the inputs. Inputs and the lack of inputs where the discussion is, needs to be put on the table.”SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026