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0:19
Kimberly Rash“So Anchorage Recovery Center will bill for the services that they provide to the individual.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:19

Jamie Lopez

“APD as of September 30th, basically 7 arrests, uh, 85 voluntarily complied, 11 accepted services, bumped up to about a 12 to 13% rate. But if you do the complete total, 152 arrests, 1,313 voluntarily complied, 103 accepted services. Again, it's 7 to 7.8.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:30
Kimberly Rash“if you look at April, there were 3 reported incidents, 2 which were medical requested, and 1 was the substance use on the property.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:22
Thea Agnew-Bemben“now we have 32 housing units, traditional— or sorry, transitional living units, and then we have common spaces.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:47
Thea Agnew-Bemben“the reason that Willow Commons has the operating model that it does, like Director Rasch was saying, is that we didn't have operating funds to add another 32 transitional living units to our inventory. But when we operate them using a behavioral health treatment provider, beyond that startup cost, they are covering the cost because they are billing for their services.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:17

Jamie Lopez

“I looked straight night at basically the— and I said, uh, you can't spend a couple dollars for, you know, uh, basically the puffing in, uh, and more or less there's $100,000 in a slush fund, but the Good Neighbor Fund was used to put people there. Uh, one week later they are still here.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:44
Kimberly Rash“There was 8 transferred to other providers, and really transfers can be a gamut of different things. Either they're not— either the patient or the client is not in the correct level of care based upon their ASAM scores, the client is using or has relapsed, and they would need to go back to detox, or if the client is refusing to engage with the program.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:41

Kathleen McLaughlin

“we took 15 people from the Safety Center and 11 have continued to stay in shelter of those 15, and that's been 10 days. So that we view as a, as a quiet win.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:26
Kimberly Rash“we're still looking at what those options are for when We really do need to increase perhaps a little bit more when it gets really cold. Historically, those is based upon when it's negative temperature, but we have gotten away from warming.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:19

Jamie Lopez

“there were roaches in their room. That is not a trauma-informed experience, uh, that is trauma-induced. And I would ask you to spend a night, uh, where you're going to send— spend someone there.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:30

Kathleen McLaughlin

“we are trying to use the Alex Hotel as a more intensive case management and we're also seeing a lot of hospital discharges of individuals that are medically vulnerable and that wouldn't do well in the congregate setting.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:11

Jamie Lopez

“So there is money for intensive case management, SUDS, uh, mental health police. There is no money to keep people alive.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:29
Kimberly Rash“we have 150 beds at East 56 and 150 beds at Linda's Place. With the passage of 16.120 at the last assembly meeting, the Anchorage Health Department is allowed to go up to 200 beds at one location before assembly approval is needed, so we will continue to surge at East 56 up to 200, and we will be at the maximum of 200 by November 30th.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:35

Kathleen McLaughlin

“We targeted placement for surges ever since the— we started this about a month ago, and what I mean by that is we went to certain areas of the town that had the highest visible homelessness issues. So the first group, we had 40, we targeted Midtown, then we went to Mountain View. Last, this last surge of up to 20, we went directly to the Safety Center and we pulled people out of the Safety Center who were there to rest”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:24
Erin Baldwin Day“do we have any idea what just the sort of the raw costs, if we were to remove treatment from the equation and we're just talking about operating micro-units as like a housing intervention. Do we know what that, what that looks like as far as utilities, security, snow removal?”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:37
Kimberly Rash“So the person has decided that they no longer want to be in the program or at that location. They can then go to any of their other locations through Anchorage Recovery Center, or they can just exit the program, but they have made that decision on their own.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:30
Kimberly Rash“warming is that an individual cannot sleep all night. They have to stay up and that's due to fire code. And so warming isn't ideal because imagine you having to stay up and someone trying to poke you awake all through the night”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:31

Jamie Lopez

“Willow Commons, uh, it is not accessible to homeless with no SUDs issues or those directly on the street. It's not representative at all of the people that are desperate in need, and they have to go through the program in Anchorage Recovery before they can even enter that place. It's sort of a cherry-picked environment.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:34

Kathleen McLaughlin

“we also are seeing people congregating in certain areas of downtown and who are not really wanting to be in shelter but they are needing to be in shelter and we need to figure out how to more aggressively engage in that population because I think they are at higher risk.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:20

Jamie Lopez

“2026 budget to actuals under first responders, it listed basically, uh, HOPE and MDOT, uh, Multidisciplinary Outreach Team, Third Ave Navigation Center, $500,000 in the approved budget, $500,000 encumbered. With expenditures. What the heck is that for?”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:31
Kimberly Rash“The expectation is that there will not be substance use on the property, so that is why it's considered an incident report, and the individual is then removed from the property if there is substance abuse.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:12
Kimberly Rash“really, this data that we are collecting today and what I presented today is really the first 6 months. So that is the benchmark to then see what the next 6 months look like.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:20
Erin Baldwin Day“I'm wondering if we have any visibility into what the actual operating costs are for this facility, sort of irrespective of Medicaid reimbursement and things like that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:29
Kimberly Rash“as of right now, if you look at those financials, they ended in July of this year, so the municipality is not providing any other funding for this operation. So They are sustainable because they're not receiving any other funding.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:21
Kimberly Rash“right now it's 150 at each location, so East 56 and Linda's Place, and then we have the 100 at the Alex Hotel, and then we will be increasing capacity up to 200 by November 30th at East 56. We will remain at 150 at Linda's Place and 100 at Alex.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:14

Jamie Lopez

“And so you're not following through. You're failing people. And I hope, if anything, you start to learn from this experience and maybe pay some money, uh, to help people, because they're not getting help right now.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:09
Kimberly Rash“this is just our starting point, like our starting platform, that then we can build off that data from this point.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:18

Colette Thibodeau

“Over the last couple of summers, I have watched homelessness in my neighborhood become more visible and more desperate. I live near Pine DeBar in Bergah. I was I watched the Pine Street encampment grow larger and larger, Davis Camp as well”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:09

Colette Thibodeau

“what they want is the sanctioned idea of encampment, and I would ask the committee to really reconsider that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:11
Kimberly Rash“as of, from March to October 19th, there was 15 reported incidents.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:20
Kimberly Rash“32 Beds, as Thea mentioned, is the number of beds that we have at that location. They have been filled consistently from the beginning. 58 Individuals as of October 13th, of which 27 have had a planned treatment completion.”

Anchorage Assembly: Health & Homelessness Committee Meeting ·

0:21
Sydney Scout“I believe this language creates extremely large loopholes that basically any violation of this policy, somebody could say, I didn't know I was doing it, oopsie. Um, and I don't want to create that option.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:42

Kathleen McCardle

“I'm here to also support the continued investment and commitment to downtown Anchorage foot patrol as support for business and community safety that impacts all of the municipality. Our members have consistently cited public safety as a concern in our feedback surveys, with downtown at the epicenter. And this year's pilot foot patrol delivered both quantitative and qualitative results”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:16
Suzanne LaFrance“But it's important that we codify our responsibility to protect the public's privacy to ensure that it has strength and permanence. The S version of the ordinance gives you a sensible and effective opportunity to do that tonight.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:28
Radhika Krishna“When the foot patrol was happening consistently, business owners absolutely saw a difference. A fully staffed patrol that operates year-round would do even more to improve public safety downtown, and that's what we'd like to see. 2027 Will be a big year downtown. Town Square Park and Paratovich Park were closed for construction this year, but they'll reopen next year, um, as will the new downtown library branch and the Ship Creek to Coastal Trail connection.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:36
Daniel Volland“I really think this one is an effort to strike that balance between public safety, have— letting law enforcement use a tool that can be valuable, but preventing an unlawful search and seizure, preventing an abuse of someone's constitutional right to privacy.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:25
Suzanne LaFrance“Lastly, I urge assembly members to approve my administration's S version of AO 2026-108 tonight, which is co-sponsored by members Silvers and Gerker. Technologies like the Real Time Crime Center are powerful public safety tools.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:17
Radhika Krishna“That's over 40 per day. More than 1,000 of those contacts ended in voluntary compliance. 152 People were transported to care, such as the Anchorage Safety Patrol. 40 People were connected to services.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:00
Radhika Krishna“Thank you.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:28
Anna Brawley“an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly repealing and replacing Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 3.02— sorry, 102. And amending AMC Section 7.15.040 to clarify existing restrictions on surveillance technology and establish new restrictions on automated license plate reader systems. I will note that there is an S version and an S1 version that makes substantial changes to that title.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:16
Anna Brawley“On a vote of 11 to 1, um, this item is postponed to the next meeting.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:30
Daniel Volland“In the, in the S version, the municipal agency has to have had knowingly, materially, and consistently violated this chapter, um, dot dot dot, or failed to take reasonable remedial action after identifying a knowing material violation of the chapter in order for the assembly to suspend use of technology.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:30
Erin Baldwin Day“I would like to move to amend the amendment and reinclude knowingly, materially, consistently, but with the or rather than the and. So it would read, a municipal agency has knowingly, materially, or consistently violated this chapter.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:21

Kathleen McCardle

“Please fund APD as much as we need it to be, and this program, making it permanent ensuring coverage for every shift.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:21
Daniel Volland“that is the requirement that no, no municipal agency may share surveillance data for a known purpose that would be prohibited if undertaken directly by the municipality under this chapter, unless required by law, judicial warrant, or court order.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:40
Radhika Krishna“And then I know we're all looking forward to new crisis care stabilization that will open this year. The foot patrol is a really key part of connecting all these pieces on the ground.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:34

Kathleen McCardle

“When public safety isn't available, it's our local businesses who must then invest in private security, hardening their infrastructure, survey their own surveillance equipment and services, and even relocating their services and amenities if they feel they must. Which ultimately is not sustainable.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:33
Suzanne LaFrance“This ordinance will ensure data is shared only with state and federal agencies for criminal law enforcement purposes. This means APD can continue important joint efforts— the annual Operation Summer Heat drug crime suppression effort, the Chelsea Inn investigation, and human trafficking investigations like the major massage parlor bust last April. Other versions and amendments proposed tonight would effectively halt these joint operations, which are important to public safety and health, and get deadly drugs off our streets.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

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