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

Emily Cho “we can have them speak prior to our final vote on whether or not we actually do fill out the very short online application. To become a member of the Sister Cities International. And so that will be in August.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “So we will shelf that and loop back around in August when we reconvene.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “the first idea that Anna shared is the International Carving Festival. Anna is involved in planning the event, and it's right now it's in its early stages, and it's like a 2027 kind of event.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “The unfinished business around the potential new sister city of Recife, Brazil cannot continue because Claudia is not here.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “So we do not have quorum. So today we'll just review the agenda and we'll make some more action items in August.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Anna Vernaya “Either— I'm not sure about August, but maybe September, because in August I think we do have a series of things that we need to vote on, especially since we don't have quorum right now.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Anna Vernaya “It's going to be on 26th, we hope, because at that moment we started to organize the committee of the International Carbon Festival here in Alaska, because it takes time.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “That sounds like a nice community mixer since, um, It would probably— we'll probably have to dedicate a meeting for that because I would assume that if we invite all these leaders, we want to take the time to like get to know them or at least have them like talk about their community”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “We do have a— we do have some vacant seats.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “At our last meeting, we discussed joining Sister Cities International. We are postponing the actual final vote of joining in August, but I wanted to remind folks to please visit their website and educate yourself on what it is, what it does, and the benefits of us joining. The annual cost for us would be around $1,030.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “We do not have quorum, so today will mainly be a discussion, which is pretty fitting since most of the items that we have on the agenda are more discussion-based. So I'm going to call to order the meeting, 6:08 PM.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “It looks like we have 2. Yeah, 2 vacant seats, or no, 3 vacant seats actually. Yep. Do we have a timeline of when we might have new commissioners join us?”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “this is from Marie. It's an international cooking class, potentially partnering with someone like, uh, like companies like Dirty Apron to host a series of cooking classes featuring signature dishes from each of our sister cities.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “maybe a good next step is to maybe we can like, like as a commission and as commissioners, we can sign up as a group for the various volunteering opportunities in town to support the existing efforts to provide relief and support for those experiencing homelessness.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “So we can skip over everything. We are skipping items 3 to 6 because we do not have quorum.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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Emily Cho “Speaking of Palmer, I am wondering, Eddie, maybe if you want to, in your follow-up email, invite them to our August meeting.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “And I said, okay, you know, yes, you're hired.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “We will also be inviting the chaplain representative from the color guard and/or honor guard, and that, and Kyle had mentioned she might like to be there too. And so everybody is invited to that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “Do we have a budget for this, for this event? Not really, no. We have, we have, we turn in— there's certain things that we can do, sure, and we turn that in ahead of time. I let Marie know, you know, we're going to have these, and so that they budget it through the mayor's office, right?”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “Those chairs are for handicapped veterans first. Okay, better. All right, then after that, everybody else can fill in the chairs.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “But now the offices, they will— I have Senator Stevens, I Senator Sullivan, I didn't get a confirmation on. For McCasky's office, Craig will probably be there to speak on behalf, like, like last year. Oh wait, Nick Begich, the congressman, will be in D.C. and unable to attend.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “We're going to set a date to meet at the Memorial. That's just to look it over, what kind of shape it is.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “I think next year we might go ahead and, in case it's gonna be like this every year, we might go ahead and, uh, let you know now to start looking at to, uh, go ahead and contract in a person to run sound and music.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “Does he mention about a representative or anything? Did not.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “I will get you guys the programs so we can get those printed out. I'm just kind of waiting for a final answer on— because part of the programs is a schedule of events, and that is really hard if we don't know for sure who's going to be speaking from the senators and the congressmen.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “You want us to request one? Just ask him. It's just asking, uh, will the— I'd rather know than not plan for it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “The porta-potties, and we almost always get a bill from the police department, right? And now with more people on the board, maybe for next year You can delegate all that and share the load.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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David Foli “Who's the MC? Say, the, the Master Sergeant Schultz, same person from last year. Oh, I see. Yeah, he, he did it last year. And he said that he loved it and he wants to be a part of it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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Marie Husa “We need to have a decision on that if we're going to change it, because I need to put that on the public notice on the municipal website. Since your meetings are public, the public needs to be able to access the location. So I need— we need to make a decision if that's what's going to happen.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission June 2, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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Marie Husa “Oh, that would be nice. It would. It's easy.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission June 2, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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Marie Husa “I would suggest maybe just copying Kyle to Al so she's in the loop if you do address it, you know, and of course, David, probably.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission June 2, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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Kyle

“I have not heard back from Colonel Mabbitt's office, and I know we've been talking about this for a few months, so that's why I was asking if We could get like a little more background. I can send it to her office and see if that's something she wants to tackle”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission June 2, 2025 · Sep 14, 2026

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Heidi Hedberg “There are focus areas that we want to elevate in year 2, and this is specific to the fall cycle around pay for readiness, care coordination, and EMS. You'll notice a theme. It's all about readiness.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “I want to highlight that there will be 2 funding cycles per year, and we'll be publishing that calendar in advance.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Heidi Hedberg “if you notice that yellow box, facility and renovations will be open in the spring. CMS has a cap on that type of funding, and we wanna ensure that it's fair and equitable for all organizations”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “altogether, this means we're targeting about 11 weeks from application opening to awards beginning compared to the 24 weeks that we've been working on under this first cycle.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “From the day that the letters of interest opened until we first started issuing award decisions was about 24 weeks. So while that overall cycle was really long, the time that you all had to develop your proposal was relatively short”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Heidi Hedberg “we also saw that there was not a lot of requests in the readiness area, um, around care coordination. And so we wanted to elevate that because we, that is an area that we really need to step into”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “We're trying to build out improvements with less time between stages and more time to prepare the application and a shorter overall path from opening to award decision.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Heidi Hedberg “That's where you saw us identify we have to have a more efficient, effective application process so that we can get into a better cycle for the fall and the spring.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Heidi Hedberg “we are going to be refining those questions in the application so that we can really be, have a clear idea and capture what is the problem, what is the solution, or what are you trying to accomplish”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “the intent right now is that we're looking at for each cycle that opens, you may submit 5 applications. That doesn't mean 5 applications over the life of the program.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “organizations can submit up to 5 applications. Per opening, per round. The goal is to really encourage all of you to do some front-end prioritization and submit focused proposals”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “planning is for those earlier stage projects under $250,000, and it will have a shortened application.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “we are targeting that application to open in late September or early October. The application would be open for about 4 weeks, followed by roughly 4 weeks of processing and review.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “There'll be one application portal regardless of what type of pathway you're trying to apply for or what type of initiative your project fits under.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “I want to highlight that there will be one application instead of two stages. There will not be a separate letter of interest and then a second application. You will just apply one time.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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Betsy Wood “In year one, applicants provided information at the LOI stage, waited through a review period, which was rather lengthy, and then had 3 weeks to develop the full application. We're going to streamline that this year.”

Alaska Dept. of Health: RHTP Funding Cycle Updates: Reflections and Next Steps with Q&A (September 11, 2026) · Sep 14, 2026

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