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

Clips from Anchorage AssemblyClear
0:08
Anna Brawley“On the subject of the budget, tonight is the first of our two scheduled public hearings on the FY 2027 budget.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:15
Anna Brawley“On a vote of 8 to 4, um, Amendment number 4 as amendment has passed.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:19
Jared Gardner“we're legislators, we're not, we're not department staff, right? The mayor ran an election, the mayor got elected, she filled the executive branch with people to do the job that she wants to do the job. That's, that's not us, that's not our role.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:29
Anna Brawley“Seeing and hearing no one, um, the first public hearing on AO 2026-123 is closed. And as again, a reminder to members, we do not need to take further action to postpone these items because they're already scheduled for public hearing”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:20
Radhika Krishna“The foot patrol began this last April as a pilot project, which was funded by the TIPS program, which was part of the bed tax. And those funds are— there's only a small portion remaining, and they're due to be spent down very soon. In just its first 6 weeks, officers made over 1,800 contacts.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:04
Anna Brawley“On a vote of 12 to 0, uh, that Brawley Amendment 2 passes unanimously.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:14
Daniel McKenna-Foster“the code requires PCC to review both the MOA CIP and CIB and the school district CIP, CIB. We do it every year.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:10
Ona Brause“So the traditional bond packages are between $40 and $55 million depending on what year you look at it.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

1:05
Ona Brause“The proposed $87.95 million capital budget includes all of those projects listed under bond funding, $21.4 million from state that has been acquired or state requests that will be made, federal funding that has either been acquired or will be received”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:46
Ona Brause“there of course are ways to off-ramp projects. The question is, how do we want to do that when it takes, you know, anywhere between 1 to 10 years to get funded?”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:27
Daniel McKenna-Foster“The land use plan talks about the need to align capital planning with the land use plans, and of course more specifically land use plan, 2040 land use plan policy 1.5 calls for us to align Anchorage's land use, transportation, infrastructure planning, design guidelines, and investments”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:24
Ona Brause“we are not funded in the way that allows us to make discretionary choices for the most part, particularly for the last decade. Our budget, as we discussed a little while ago, we are funding at a $50 million level on an annual basis as opposed to a $250 million level on an annual basis.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:31
Robert Doehl“We have reviewed the long-range memo staff provided you and believe some additional context is important. This document was a new approach prepared outside of the usual process and without coordination.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:24

Lyndall Myers

“I filled more than a 5-gallon bucket of items from the weekend: used condoms, liquor bottles, one of which was shattered across the side of our building, used feminine products, drug paraphernalia of every form and fashion, food wrappers, food waste, and at— and last but not least, 4 piles of used toilet paper.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:49
Ona Brause“looming fiscal cliff, $15 million budget gap, that has been talked about in the press. We avoided the cliff this year by using one-time funding specifically from some legacy MLNP accounts as well as an increased general government dividend from Anchorage Hydropower”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:08

Lisa Stevens

“The current operators of Linda's Place have demonstrated they do not have the ability to properly operate this facility.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:28
Daniel McKenna-Foster“Some projects seem to have been project list for years but no longer maybe have a connection to any present need. There's no good way to off-ramp projects that maybe no longer are needed.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:43
Ona Brause“Why, as I said, we have spent all the remaining balance of the MLNP sale account and some of our other one-time dollars over the last 3 years.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:22
Andres Spinelli“I also intend to support the motion. I agree with the findings, and I think that this memo from planning is the reason why this, uh, process was added to the purview of P&Z so long ago.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:13
Scott Pulice“I move in Case 2026-0124 to recommend to the Anchorage Assembly approval of the 2027 proposed capital improvement budget and the 2027-2032 proposed capital improvement program.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:41

Shirley Eichholz

“I've been assaulted 4 times this summer, twice at my own house that I live on in East 4th, right behind the shelter and twice on the commercial property that adjoins Linda's place.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:20
Daniel McKenna-Foster“Treat capital projects as investments to spur other investments in the surrounding area... find out a way to off-ramp projects. Sometimes we have projects that end up on projects list for years and years.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:15
Daniel McKenna-Foster“Align investments with big picture priorities. That's pretty, you know, kind of a non-brainer, no-brainer.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:12

Sheldon Fisher

“I'm Sheldon Fisher with MASH Property Management, and we're the operator of Linda's Place.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:19
Elizabeth Appleby“because there is still an emergency order in place, they could still operate under the emergency order. However, at some point that will expire and they could not continue to operate unless the assembly created a new emergency order.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:11

Lisa Stevens

“The renewal of this facility should be canceled accordingly. We believe the better solution to help the homeless is to locate these facilities in a different part of the city, not so near business or residential areas.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:16

Shirley Eichholz

“I'm really hoping you'll put a conditional use that they put a 6-foot fence there because they really are dangerous.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:52
Ona Brause“This bond package is being proposed at $87.95 because of the deferred maintenance, but there is a limitation on what we can actually ask of property taxpayers.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:15

Sheldon Fisher

“The last thing that I haven't touched on yet is the 4-foot fence, and we're willing to build an 8-foot fence if that is your desire.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:29
Ona Brause“If the question is, are we revising service areas in this budget, the answer is not to my knowledge. And but that is a conversation that is part of of this transition that Anchorage is in”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:12
Robert Doehl“As such, there is no opportunity to incorporate the technical information behind projects, instead relying on paper high-level project summaries going forward. Accordingly, we believe the report should be disregarded.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:11
Edith McKee“I move in case 2026-0084 to approve the conditional use permit for a homeless and transient shelter subject to the conditions on page 6 of the staff report.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:15
Brandy Eber“I think no matter what we decide, it still operates under an emergency order as a condition— or as a shelter. It's not going to shut down tomorrow.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:37

Sheldon Fisher

“we believe that most of those providing services agree that Linda's Place is one of the best-run shelters in Anchorage. We have segregated space for women, for men and women, which provides a different additional security for our women”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:36

Sheldon Fisher

“they are happening every 30 minutes. We patrol. And if you're familiar with the neighborhood, our— the location of the property is at the corner of Sitka and Fifth Avenue, and we patrol down Sitka Street across to Unger and back.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:06
Brandy Eber“There's a reason why this is a conditional use permit versus a permitted use, and I don't think this use should be allowed on this site.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:55

Lisa Stevens

“Since the opening in September of '25, our business has experienced significant deterioration in the surrounding environment, including multiple fires started in our dumpster and parking lot, creating serious risk of injury and property damage. Frequent— and this has happened as of this week— frequent issues with homeless shelter guests offering prostitution services to our customers and employees in the parking lot.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:17

Cheryl Williams

“This commission has an incredible opportunity right now to stop 150 as an option, and it'll move back into the health department's zone.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:47

Phil Johnson

“it was an immediate 500% increase, an immediate 500% increase from September of 2025.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:13

Terry Holtman

“Their patrols are just a volunteer in a vest. They don't actually do anything. We've had to hire private security to actually make a meaningful presence.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:22
Edith McKee“I also— the petitioner seems resistant to incurring the costs that would be necessary for them to provide a secure boundary to their facilities, such as the 10-foot fence.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:17
Susanne Fleek-Green“But for right now, we bring to you really a continuation budget, a continuation budget that costs more, though. Because everything costs more these days.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:26
Ona Brause“Would the transparency associated with service level budgeting that gives you an idea, pay X amount of dollars and you're gonna get this level of service. And when you don't get this level of service, You come tell us.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:19
Ona Brause“The question becomes, do you want to bond to pay for this ambulance, and do you want to levy to pay for the service to drive the ambulance? Because if we ask the asset question, we do not have the staff or the funding to make it work.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:09
Ona Brause“that is a close to billion-dollar deficit that we have been sustaining for the last 10 years.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:33
Ona Brause“The $15 million gap that we've talked about for the '27 budget was closed by eliminating vacant funded positions as part of the position adjustments that we'll go through in the AM support.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:35
Ona Brause“The outlook for 2028, as mentioned, the projected budget gap is $15 to $30 million. We will get into the details on those numbers in the fiscal plan chart. Costs continue to increase, as Member Baldwin Day mentioned, healthcare, labor, the cost of energy and fuel.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:24
Ona Brause“We, we, it's $15 to $30 million projected for the '28 budget, and when we get to the 6-year fiscal overview, we'll talk through the assumptions in that and why there is a range between $15 and $30 million and how that reflects compared to the '27 gap.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

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