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Edna DeVries“So that resolution was passed. What it is saying is we're encouraging ADA to assist us as well as the whole state with the West Sioux Access, um, project as well as the port project. And so that will now today gonna be forwarded to the state. That was adopted.”

Mat-Su Borough: MAYOR POST BLOG ASSEMBLY MEETING SEP15, 2026 · Sep 18, 2026

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Edna DeVries“Another item that was under reconsideration was whether the assembly should support DNR's allocation of 19,000+ acres to ADA. Uh, in 2 weeks ago, there had just been a letter, and then there— after that letter had been adopted by the assembly, the next day there had been reconsideration by an assembly person. So that put the letter on hold, but that also gave, uh, Deputy Mayor time to do a resolution and get it on the agenda for last night.”

Mat-Su Borough: MAYOR POST BLOG ASSEMBLY MEETING SEP15, 2026 · Sep 18, 2026

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Jerry Griffin

“I wasn't going to— I had nothing that I wanted to say until I listened to the FY2027-8.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Scott Smiley“OK. Hearing none, I will close public hearing and open it up for Assembly discussion. Mr. Smiley. I think the changes are really good here. I think that one of our jobs is to review the code and to bring them up to date.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Scott Smiley“So up next we have a contract to consider, contract number FY2027-15 for KIB facility snow removal, ice control, and sweeping with MK Enterprises, LLC. Mr. Smiley, move to authorize the borough manager to execute contract number FY 2027-15 for KIB facility snow removal, ice control, and sweeping with MK Enterprises, LLC.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Scott Smiley“I think this does a really good job of it. It is a housekeeping thing, and I don't think there is anything to argue about.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Jerry Griffin

“And I just recommend anybody listening or anybody who wants to come in and meet these people in person, turn your application in.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Scott Smiley“Because that is as, as requested. This contract is as requested. If they request us to do the schools, we will do that. Mr. Ames. There were two bidders, and this is the lowest responsible bidder.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Jerry Griffin

“Motion passes 6-0.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Scott Smiley“Move to adopt Ordinance Number FY2027-08.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Jeremiah Gardner“I thought— I see on page 2 it says all schools. I thought the school district was doing their own snow removal. Anybody have any information?”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Jerry Griffin

“I think that is awesome, and I really like the idea that people can send in their, uh, their application. But if anybody can make it in, I recommend it. It's part of a cool process. When I came in nervous, not knowing what to do, meeting the staff and the way that they handled it, welcoming me, making me feel like I was already part of the borough assembly, just even as a supporter, I really recommend that. So I think it was well done.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 17, 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Chris French“what the Commission just voted on was to postpone action on this item until October when they will have 2 additional members present.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of September 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026

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Nick Szabo

“You have a 350-page packet that has many reasons for not disposing of this property. I hope you have a chance to review those reasons because they're very well thought out and make very clear that this should not be developed as housing. Please listen to your staff. I think the best use of this land is to designate it as a park.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of September 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026

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Tracy Craig“I feel that the borough really needs to put an end to it or move forward or do something. So I feel like it needs to go to the borough.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of September 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026

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Chris French“you have to have 4 votes in positive to pass a motion. It kind of sounds from the discussion that you are split even, 2 to 2, I think, from what I can tell.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of September 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026

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Patrick Callahan

“just as recent as 2019, this was brought up to Planning and Zoning, and it was voted 4-0 unanimously to not move this forward. There was soil samples done, there was plotting, zoning research, studies performed, environmental impact studies performed, Trails Network was consulted, and they looked at all of that data and they voted it down unanimously, 4-0, as recent as 2019.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of September 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026

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Joseph Delgado“I, like many others, think that we should close this thing off for good and not let this come up again where we— I mean, we need the buffer zone to protect the lake, protect all the animals, the fish, the birds, the wildlife, the people that live around there.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of September 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026

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Joseph Delgado“I think if we're going to listen to the community, then that's not going to change, so I don't see any sense in postponing. I would rather just vote now.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of September 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026

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Chris French“Staff has reviewed the application against approved plans for the area and the 2008 Comprehensive Plan. Staff recommended that portions of the subject properties be retained.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of September 16, 2026 · Sep 16, 2026

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Daniel Meuninck“The RFP was included in your packet as well as the proposal from Corvus Design, which was the is a firm that the city selected. They're Anchorage-based, and so they will be helping us develop the system.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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“Also, you could get away from that by being Not singling out individual businesses and being downtown center, or just kind of— I don't want to say vague, but technically.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Daniel Meuninck“I think we, we'd be careful not to promote individual businesses, right, versus others. But yeah, I It is a pedestrian system, is the scope of this RFP.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Courtney Bringhurst“So like potentially there may be signage that says, you know, grocery store this way or Safeway this way, that sort of thing. But the main focus of these signage will be to identify distances that people can walk to, or locations that people can walk to.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Daniel Meuninck“so, um, yeah, there's a chance we might need to wait into next year for that piece of it. So yeah, I don't, I don't know if the signs will be up this summer, but that would be the ideal goal, and it's certainly possible. But hopefully at the very least the following summer.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Courtney Bringhurst“I would just think Corvus wouldn't be strictly tied to only using our branding guide, but yeah, hopefully they would use their expertise to incorporate some things that would make the signs pop, but then also still have that element of Brandy”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Daniel Meuninck“a lot of people do walk from the terminal to the train depot, and what they do is they— there's a sidewalk here, but instead of crossing at the crosswalk and taking the sidewalk, they're often just walking along the industrial side, right? And so So that's where signage here would be important to really follow the proper trail.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Daniel Meuninck“We want it to feel Seward, the branding system, but more branded is the design itself versus having to complement the Seward logo.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Daniel Meuninck“in Seward, there seems to be two points of reference when you hear the word downtown. Some people are referring to the historic downtown where we are here, and some people use downtown to refer to the small boat harbor.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Daniel Meuninck“So earlier this year, the city issued an RFP seeking a consultant to help develop a comprehensive wayfinding system for Seward. And wayfinding is a fancy word, but at its most basic level, it's about helping people understand where they are, where they want to go, and how to best get there.”

Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026

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Annette Bryan

“With this trust sitting the way that it's currently being invested, it's really not functional. It's not doing anything. We're grateful for it, and it, it has served a purpose in the past, but right now we don't even pay the salary for the trust board to function. So we really need to bring this in-house.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Sarah Obed

“It's called Geese House site because there are story, origin stories about the site that might be found across many cultures, including the raven painting the loon.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Annette Bryan

“It's the way that the funds are invested so that the federal— the way that the interest rate is set up in the trust fund, it's not gaining any interest anymore.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Teresa Leger Fernández“Representative Randall's legislation would amend the Tribe Settlement Act. It would give the tribe the authority to withdraw and manage their trust fund account under a secretarial approved plan, just like other federally recognized tribes can.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Sarah Obed

“When we went out there 2 years ago, we went by helicopter. It's nowhere near the front portion of the Denali National Park.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Sarah Obed

“Geese House played an important part in the Native oral tradition of the Upper Kantiishna region in the past and is still a considerable interest to the Native residents today. And so this bill, if— when passed, will convey those lands back to Doyon.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Annette Bryan

“The tribe actually funds those now. So, we need to manage it in-house. We have really good qualified eligible tribal members who are doing an amazing job. One example is they took the children's trust that we had, in an old trust, and it was earning like the federal interest rate. We moved it to a Goldman Sachs account and are managing that trust, and it's making money for our children.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Sarah Obed

“HR 8674 would complete a long-pending ANCSA conveyance by directing the Secretary of Interior to convey this historic Geese House site. These lands selected by Doyon in 1978 subject to certain restrictions on alienation and use and development consistent with ensuring the protection of these important cultural sites under Doyon's ownership and management.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Annette Bryan

“Well, self-determination means that the tribe runs programs for itself. And we have amazing capacity. I just want to take a moment to, you know, recognize that our CFO is a Puyallup tribal member. We have attorneys on staff who are Puyallup tribal members.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Nick Begich“I urge my colleagues to support 8674 and finally return Geese House to the people who have called it sacred for generations.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Annette Bryan

“The non-tribal parties to the settlement, have been informed of the tribe's approach to the permanent trust fund and support this legislation. I ask that their letters of support be included in this hearing record.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Annette Bryan

“So we want to take this $22 million and manage it in a way with keeping the core principle intact and still going through the Indian Trust Management Act, guidelines and using the interest then to provide programs.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Annette Bryan

“Today, the income generated by the Federally Invested Trust Fund has declined so significantly that much of it's consumed by the board's operating costs. Too little reaches tribal members. Maintaining a separate administrative structure also duplicates the work of the tribe's experienced and well-trained government staff. In fact, the tribe has absorbed many of the programs that the fund used to pay for.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Sarah Obed

“I'm here on behalf of Doyon Ltd., our board of directors, and our over 20,000 shareholders and employees, and this testimony is a statement of support for H.R. 8674, The Geese House Conveyance Act.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Sarah Obed

“It feels wonderful. And I'm really grateful to the committee for holding this here sharing, and for this bill's introduction. Thank you, Mr. Begich. And I'm really looking forward to its passage and to its conveyance.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Nick Begich“48 years ago, Doyon Limited selected the Geese House site a sacred rock formation at the heart of Interior Alaska, for conveyance under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Doyon shareholders identified this place as one of only a handful of physically defined cultural sites important enough to select by name. They have been waiting ever since.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Annette Bryan

“This bill doesn't automatically transfer the fund, approve a management plan, request new funding, or expand entitlements. The tribe would still have to satisfy the same federal review and approval standards that apply to other federally recognized tribes.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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Teresa Leger Fernández“your testimony where you describe that your members of your tribe had not been able to visit the site for decades, yet this is the place of such cultural significance, a place where your ancestors must be buried”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs: Legislative Hearing · Sep 17, 2026

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