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

Courtney Bringhurst “there were some changes that we made with widening the street from 50 to 60-foot right-of-way within city limits, as well as providing some new restrictions for dead-end streets or cul-de-sacs”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Daniel Meuninck “The wording is really aimed at that— those developments across the bay that are potential housing areas that don't have any near connection to city water.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Nathaniel Charbonneau

“So since we want them all on public utilities because they're living in the city limits, why are we opening up another window to not have them on public utilities?”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Nathaniel Charbonneau

“I feel that this section here allows contractors to build a substandard home that is essentially a dry cabin, yet charge premium in-town prices. So somebody in town buying a home expecting utilities now has to live in a dry cabin and move water to their home.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Nathaniel Charbonneau

“I would like to to strike the entire section of III from this.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Rhonda Hubbard

“Yeah, Commissioner Sharbonneau, are you familiar with Homer? Yes. They have a whole hillside that doesn't have water. That's true. And how do they get water?”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Rhonda Hubbard

“Not if they're within 400 feet. If they're within 400 feet, they got to hook up. But do we have anything in our books that says the city's gonna invest, I don't know, millions and millions of dollars for a new water system over there? That's, that's not happening.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Rhonda Hubbard

“I know people up in the hills that do have these systems and they work well for them, or they get water out of city limits where these things should go. But in the city, you move to a city to have utilities.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Nathaniel Charbonneau

“What it's going to do do is open up an area for somebody to try to get something through and pass it on to a buyer that ends up with a substandard home.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Courtney Bringhurst “And then also it creates more detailed street lighting standards which weren't previously in there. Some of the main changes do come in the section that outlines the water connection requirement.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Courtney Bringhurst “Other options would be the community well system, then a cistern and rainwater catchment system, which has quite a few more regulations as this isn't, um, something common within the city right now.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Rhonda Hubbard

“I would like to see some sort of provision in here possibly that we have warm light versus cold bright blue lights in neighborhoods because it can get really not very— it's kind of unfriendly lighting otherwise.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Rhonda Hubbard

“you do have areas across the bay that our meridian hits and includes that could actually— a catchment system could lend well to that. I think that the amount of—. The number of lots that are technically would fit into this are small enough.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026

Melissa Beedle “we believe that the financial statements conform with generally accepted accounting principles. And we have one uncorrected misstatement that we'll discuss. It relates to timing and is something that we expected to have.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

Melissa Beedle “We also didn't identify any illegal acts or fraudulent activity by your management team.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“overall, assets increased by about $8.2 billion from the end of FY25 to the end of FY26.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“you can see the $535 million of royalties coming in, the PUMV transfer going out for a net change in fund balance of $6.8 billion. So you add that to the beginning balance of $85.1 to come to the $91.9 that we ended FY26.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“We ended the year with accounting net income of $10.1 billion.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“There's the $4 billion for the FY '27 general fund transfers that has been committed. It's been set aside from the realized earnings, and then leaving $10.6 billion in realized earnings and then an allocation of $3.5 billion of unrealized gains.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“at the end of June, we had 10 points $6 billion in realized earnings that was uncommitted that would be available for appropriation.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

Jason Brune “Left us in a really good position to be able to commit the FY '27 general fund transfer amount and also set aside the amount for the inflation-proofing, estimated inflation-proofing.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“Total fund balance increased by $6.8 billion to end the year at $91.9 billion. Obviously a high mark so far.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“So netting that against our revenues leaves the accounting net income of $10.1 billion for the year.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“we take the $10.1 billion in GAAP net income, subtract the $1.8 billion that were the unrealized gains that were experienced in the portfolio, the $41 million that we're sending to ACIF to come to the $8.2 billion of statutory net income, which you can see is significantly higher than FY25”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

Beth Stuart “it was about a $300 million increase in that lag reporting that would be in the financial statements if they had been received prior to that August 18th cutoff. Instead, this value will be in the FY '27 financial statements. So it's just timing”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“This is a, just a visual representation of the components of fund balance, $91.9 total on June 30th.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“We collected $535 million in mineral revenues into the corpus. That's a little bit higher than last year and ahead of the spring revenue forecast. And we made 12 transfers to the general fund under the POMB construct totaling $3.8 billion in the year. Total return was 12.42%”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

Melissa Beedle “We intend to issue an unmodified or clean audit opinion, which is the the best audit opinion you can get.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 3, 2026

“Total return was 12.42%, which in absolute terms is a very healthy, healthy return. There's only been a handful of times over the past 20 years that, that the fund has exceeded that full return.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

“On 6/30, we were carrying nearly $18 billion in unrealized gains across all asset classes. The green lines— they look green up there— the green lines here represent the liquid asset classes. So those gains are easily realized”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

“We ended the year with accounting net income of $10.1 billion. And that was about 30% higher than for FY25. And it was actually the second highest level experienced by the fund ever in the history.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

“at the end of June, we had 10. $6 Billion in realized earnings that was uncommitted that would be available for appropriation.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

Chris Poag “The ERA, as you know, as we've discussed, is subject to appropriation, simple majority of the legislature. They could spend a lot more of that money through an appropriation should they choose to.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

“Total fund balance increased by $6.8 billion to end the year at $91.9 billion. Obviously a high mark so far.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

Melissa Beedle “We also didn't identify any illegal acts or fraudulent activity by your management team. We do design our audit to identify any material misstatements that might be caused by fraud, in particular management override of internal controls. And we didn't identify any, any matters of that sort.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

“it's important to understand that about 46% of those gains actually sit in asset classes where the gains won't be realized in the short term.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

Melissa Beedle “We intend to issue an unmodified or clean audit opinion, which is the the best audit opinion you can get.”

APFC Board: APFC BOT Ethics, Audit, and Cybersecurity Meeting · Sep 4, 2026

Linda Mitchell “we can continue to issue additional minor offense citations because the way our code is written, it could be a daily fine.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “since July and August, there's been 18 short-term rental permits that were issued. So we're getting compliance from those that needed it. So it's rather impressive.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “most of our code violations is in regards to short-term rental permit. Um, the reason why is because the city has, um, a contract for short-term rental monitoring. So that has made it really efficient to really— the moment they post something on VBro or Airbnb, we get that listing notification.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “staff has met with the property owners and working on a plan to get them into compliance. And That may look different for every situation.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “We do our best to work towards compliance. Right now we give up to 3 warnings. Yes, right now is first warning 2 weeks, second one 2 weeks, third one 2 weeks.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “156 Linda Lane, that's an interesting one. It's an unpermitted accessory use because it's in the short single-family, two-family zone, you can't have RV and camping within that zone unless you have an established principal use, in which case a house. So they went ahead and just cleared their lot and put RVs and accessory structures. So they're in violation of the zoning code for that particular zoning district.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “in this case, the top one that you see, minor offense citation, that's when we actually are going to issue a minor offense citation, which goes on to the court records. Then they have to submit a fine.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “I will share with you that I am working in another code amendment to switch from minor offense citation to civil fines. Because when it comes to minor offense citation, as you know, it goes to the court, it's filed with the court, it goes on your record.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “part of the delay and inefficient process with that is we have to have a police officer enters that citation and then have to serve it in person, which is very challenging. So to be more effective in our code enforcement, we're seeking civil administrative code enforcement. And so that as staff, we have the ability to issue fines and accumulate it and maybe see faster results than we're seeing, because typically things drag out for almost a year and longer depending on certain ones, particularly the ones that require abatement of property, like the one we remember off Arlington It was a building that's been vacated. It was boarded up for a while, and it finally sold after 2 years with code enforcement, and it took a lot of work even on staff's end to work with their realtor and their representative just to get that property on the market and sold to someone.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Linda Mitchell “I would say there's at least 6, and some of them are been ongoing for a while. I didn't include on the list, we have another one that we also are working to issue a minor citation. It's just they were beyond the July date, you know, it's not something I want to do, but yes, there's more than the 6 or 7 that we have left.”

Soldotna: 09-02-26 Planning & Zoning Meeting · Sep 2, 2026

Nick Mangini “This is 2 meetings in a row that we're saying that we're not interested in selling something and I just think it brings up that bigger issue.”

Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session · Sep 8, 2026

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