Video Clips

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

Pete Eklund

“Note, all these tax rates grow with inflation, bounded between 1% and 3%. And that is a change from the other body's version where the inflation was capped at growing at 1 to 2%. The split of the tax between the local governments and the state is also fixed in this committee substitute rather than depending on capital expenditures. The splits are designed to match the effect of the House version as modeled on slide 42 of Department of Revenue's presentation last Monday.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026

0:39

Pete Eklund

“During Phase 2, the committee substitute starts the tax rate at 10.6 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, which matches the effective rate for Phase 2 on slide 40 of Department of Revenue's presentation to this committee on Monday, the 15th. Thank you. The tax rate then doubles after 10 years and doubles again in 2060. The last tax increase is in place of the sunset provision in the other body's version of the bill.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026

0:41

Alexi Painter

“So in this committee substitute, in Phase 1, as Mr. Eklund said earlier, the tax will be 6.2 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. That was kind of a rounded version of the effective tax rate of the House version during that phase of the project. So that bill had a 6-cent tax on the pipeline component and and then a 13-cent tax on the gas treatment plant. With the smaller gas treatment plant, that blends to a rate of about 6.2 cents, just rounded to the nearest cent of a cent in this bill. And when this tax takes effect, the revenue split is in box A there.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026

0:44

James Kaufman

“We've got a big question on page 27 with respect to the construction timeline of it possibly being a deal killer with respect to finance.”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026

0:17

Jesse Kiehl

“So if the project's components end up costing a whole lot more than that, retaining some of that value, the mill equivalent will be lower and that will just be lower, right?”

Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026

0:23

Stanton Gregor

“I do support this amendment. As those who are listening at the last meeting when we discussed this ordinance, that was my primary reason of voting no. I didn't feel like going through a full amendment process during that meeting. My time— my thinking at the time was to either have Planning and Zoning looking at— look at it, or legal counsel. So, um, uh, I feel like this is an important amendment for the very specific reasons Member Newman mentioned.”

Petersburg Borough: 6.15.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jun 19, 2026

0:17

Stanton Gregor

“just as a point of clarification for you, Ms. Ummer, the land sale failed on a 2-4 basis, just, just as a detail, just so you know.”

Petersburg Borough: 6.15.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jun 19, 2026

0:34

Stanton Gregor

“Ordinance 2026-14, an ordinance amending Title 19 Zoning of the Petersburg Municipal Code to regulate wireless communication facilities and other towers and transmitters. This will be the first reading.”

Petersburg Borough: 6.15.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jun 19, 2026

0:33

Stanton Gregor

“Resolution 2026-14 passes unanimously, 6 to 0, in its first reading.”

Petersburg Borough: 6.15.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jun 19, 2026

0:23

Stanton Gregor

“The resolution passes unanimously on a 6-0 mark.”

Petersburg Borough: 6.15.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jun 19, 2026

0:19

Stanton Gregor

“I'm going to be voting yes tonight. It's first reading. I generally do when I get to before the public hearing, but I imagine we'll be hearing from some of the telecommunication companies on this amended version to see how that feels for them.”

Petersburg Borough: 6.15.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jun 19, 2026

0:16

Anna Brawley

“there's multiple possibilities. Obviously one is we pass them on Tuesday. The second is they get postponed to our next regular meeting is July 7th. A third option is we have a special meeting if folks do want to have time.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Proposed Management Contracts for the Sullivan, Boeke and Dempsey Ice Arenas · Jun 18, 2026

0:34

Erin Baldwin Day

“relating to the, to the audit, I'm curious if we actually have a physical inventory of municipally owned property at this time, because that was one of the things that came out in the audit was that the contractor had never performed or submitted an actual physical inventory of the municipally owned property in the space. And I would hope that our new contractor would begin with an accurate inventory that could then be maintained.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Proposed Management Contracts for the Sullivan, Boeke and Dempsey Ice Arenas · Jun 18, 2026

1:04

Erin Baldwin Day

“The former, or I guess still current operator of the facility expressed to us that there were Several hundred thousand dollars worth of work in needed repairs and replacements at the Sullivan, and that those included major concession area work, walk-in coolers and freezers, compressors, LED visual displays, life safety upgrades, security systems, ice rink equipment, sound system components, etc. And I did not do any homework to verify the validity of those claims that were made. So I'm curious, I really want to be sure that if there— that we have a plan for addressing those things that does not leave a new operator on the hook for potentially significant investment that they did not plan for.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Proposed Management Contracts for the Sullivan, Boeke and Dempsey Ice Arenas · Jun 18, 2026

0:38

Heidi Hedberg

“It's going to close 9:00 AM on June 22nd. Between June 22nd to mid-July, we are going to go through the review process and decisions will be— notifications on funding decisions. Our goal is late July. Our goal is that funding and program work starts August 1st. So you can see this compressed timeline that we are under.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:07

Heidi Hedberg

“The estimated time is at 3 o'clock. If it doesn't open up exactly at 3 o'clock, it's okay. It's gonna open up today.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:58

Heidi Hedberg

“we are creating this program as we are all learning from each other, and this is the timeline that is before us. I do want to reiterate, though, of the 403 proposals, um, there, the funding request exceeds the available funding.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:23

Heidi Hedberg

“there will be funding available for new projects in year 2, but there's also gonna be funding for projects carrying on from year 1 to year 2. We don't know what those percentages are going to be because this is live action as we are creating this with all of you in real time.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:51

Heidi Hedberg

“$272 million is year 1. We are prioritizing, um, the, the funding towards the request through this LOI process. There are some state activities, but it's very small and very limited. Again, all of the work that we are doing is focused on the transformation of the healthcare system, improving health outcomes across our 3 goals that represents 6 different initiatives. The year 2 cycle— and Betsy, I want you to correct me if I'm wrong— some of the year 1 will have continuing funding needs because it's a multi-year application.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:49

Heidi Hedberg

“the needs far exceed the available funding. When we looked at all of the LOIs, what we saw were some common themes. Around behavioral health, access to specialty care, needs around facility and equipment upgrades, chronic disease management as we're really looking at improving our health outcomes, traditional healing, and a lot around workforce. Those were some of the top common themes from the letters of interest. As we reviewed all of those letters of interest, About 400 were advanced to the full application process.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:37

Speaker C

“this slide Describes the performance period for this funding cycle, which is the Spring 2026 Rural Health Transformation Program funding cycle. So the performance periods throughout the life of the program determine when you can carry out project activities and when you can spend those awarded funds.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:52

Heidi Hedberg

“of those 400, the needs exceed the available funding. And so it's really, I wanna reiterate to all of you that this is a competitive grant”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:38

Heidi Hedberg

“We received almost 1,800 letters of interest that represent about $2.5 billion in requests.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:27

Speaker C

“we also anticipate having a fall cycle. So, I would say the next funding opportunity under the Rural Health Transformation, we're anticipating launching this in the fall. Those performance periods would likely begin January 1st, 2027.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026

0:50

Speaker C

“for the first performance period, implementation projects will have an 11-month performance period running from August 1st of this year through June 30th of 2027. In future years, we anticipate that those performance periods would be 12-month performance periods. We're just all on a bit of a shorter timeline this first round, given the program buildup and given the shorter budget period that, that the state and CMS are working under here as well.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: Implementation Application Walkthrough Webinar (June 1, 2026) · Jun 2, 2026