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0:19
Anna Brawley“is it also the case that if we have a road responding to calls, it's possible that we would have a marginal increase in SEMT revenue, essentially reimbursement?”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:03
Ona Brause“1.2%? Yeah, that is less.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:40
Erin Baldwin Day“So if I'm seeing this correctly on FD4, we're saying, hey, $380,000 for an ambulance. Which is the one time, and then we're saying alongside this, we're going to fund a levy essentially on an annual basis, 1.35-ish million to staff the thing we just asked you if you wanted to buy.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:14
Ona Brause“this process, this conversation, this input is going to take us the next 6 to 12 months at a minimum.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:20
Ona Brause“the other answer to how we close the gap is that we relied on one-time funds that are now gone. This has been part of the budget for the last many years, but this year is the last year of the MLNP sale fund”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:26
Ona Brause“And, and the slide says no one-time funds left. There are minimal one-time funds left.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:14
Anna Brawley“Essentially, the projection would be the property tax bill goes up 1.2%, is that right?”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:26
Ona Brause“creating the option for the fire service area to vote on— or sorry, not the fire service area, the emergency area-wide area— to vote on expanding services and having an additional ambulance available is, do you want to have more service and faster response available”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:21
Ona Brause“I can tell you what the rising cost of healthcare costs us, and the medical increase for general government, I believe, was between $4 and $6 million this year, and that's just the additional money that we have to pay for the medical coverage on the employer side.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:22
Ona Brause“what we also already know is that there is not much that can be given up without breaking. And so whole programs will need to be ended instead of breaking lots of programs. And that means that full choices will be made about ending something as opposed to just managing the decline.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:24
Susanne Fleek-Green“the mayor talked about it when she delivered the budget again, she asked for some scenario planning by departments to understand what a cut would look like, what services residents lose.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:16
Ona Brause“The, the, the fire service levy would be $250 million and you would get this, this, this, this, this. That is a service level budget. You tell us what you want us to provide.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:28
Ona Brause“No, we have zeroed that bad boy out. Through the Chair, this year would be the last year.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:17
Ona Brause“the additional ambulance unit for 300, at the top of the list, is proposed as an asset purchase for a bond of $380,000 as a $1.6 million O&M increment to operate the ambulance.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:12
Ona Brause“The budget is $701.8 million and the property tax collection is under $400— or including special— $113 million. So it is not all of the revenue included here.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating & Capital ·

0:17
Jennifer Harrison“I'll, I'll go ahead and make the motion. Let me make sure I say it right, to name the AWW headquarters building after Mark C. Primo. So it's now Mark C. Primo AWW headquarters building.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

0:40
David Persinger“He was the longest-serving general manager at Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility with over 20 years of service, 6 municipal administrations, and he really set the utility on the path where we are today. With his forward thinking, his strategy, looking at the big picture. He was always looking 10 years down the road, 20 years down the road”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

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David Persinger“we would be honored to name our headquarters building at 3000 Arctic as the AWWU headquarters— Mark C. Primo Headquarters Building.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

0:21
Darrel Hess“you would be surprised at the small number of complaints we receive regarding AWU, and I believe that's directly related to Mark's leadership to the organization that he built over his 21 years, and his impact still affects AWU to this day.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

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Darrel Hess“That brings us to our First new item of business, which is a public hearing on the proposal to name the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility headquarters building for the late Mark Primo.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

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Darrel Hess“They will calendar them on a consent agenda for introduction, and then they can't hold their public hearing any sooner than 21 days after introduction. So if we get these to the assembly for the November 4th meeting, then they would schedule a public hearing in December.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

0:27

Tim Potter

“Mark, as everybody has said and has endorsed the idea in this document, was so special, and we were lucky to have him because, as has been indicated, he set the tone and the direction of the utility in a great direction.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

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Frank Rast

“Mark transformed the water utility. He brought in the greatest people to transform that water utility and make it into the organization it is now. Without Mark, the water utility would still be in the Dark Ages. So I think it's fitting they named the headquarters building after Mark.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

0:23

Frank Rast

“Mark Primo hired me 43 years ago to come to Alaska. He was my friend and mentor”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

0:41
David Persinger“I was hired as a an intern, a student intern while I was going to school at UAA over 20 years ago, and Mark Primo was the general manager then, and his legacy and foresight for the utility has really put the utility on the forefront in Alaska as well as internationally”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

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Tim Potter

“And he, he led by example, and I miss him very much. This is an appropriate honor. To he, his family, and the city as a whole.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

0:14
Darrel Hess“That passes 5 to 0. Thank you. Thank you for coming to testify, Jasmine. You and I can prepare a memo and a packet to send to the assembly.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

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David Persinger“He also was very instrumental in setting us on a long-range financial trajectory, which is still in place today.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

1:11

Tim Potter

“looking at the utility and its infrastructure And proposed improvement as an asset management system meant that you would repair, maintain, extend as appropriate for the needs of the city and the bankroll.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

0:23

Kevin Heller

“it seems that Mark was just super instrumental in building out the Anchorage Wastewater Utility and kind of expanding it, kind of that project base and building it out and things like that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

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Jennifer Harrison“That just shows that he really cared about people and that people wanted to work for him long term. And Alaska is not an easy place to recruit engineers to and to encourage them to stay.”

Anchorage Assembly: Public Naming Commission - October 14, 2026 ·

0:43
Earl Malpass“If you saw that graph there where all the flights to— from Merrill Field to 200 rural communities, remote communities, uh, the impact that we have statewide”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

0:08

Craig Sanders

“That defines the runway design code, which is a safety feature that the FAA defines. Based on aircraft characteristics.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

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Earl Malpass“Merrill Field, it's been here since 1930, obviously, and we've had the space for the, the fixed-wing parked aircraft. We're at near capacity right now.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

0:27

Craig Sanders

“We've identified that critical design aircraft as the Beechcraft Super King Air 200, which per the FAA's runway design codes is a B2.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

0:21

Craig Sanders

“it's second behind Ted Stevens in terms of aircraft operations, and, you know, is effectively the second most, and combined, you know, has even more operations than some of these airports combined”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

0:07

Craig Sanders

“it's home to 840+ based aircraft. And 30+ businesses and tenants.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

0:07
Anna Brawley“when you mentioned that one piece was below schedule, or below, you meant kind of behind schedule, is that right?”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

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Craig Sanders

“the key output for the forecast is the critical design aircraft. And what that is, is the most intensive aircraft using the airport that's on over 500 annual operations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

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Craig Sanders

“happy to report we have draft chapters of the inventory and forecast available.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

0:18

Craig Sanders

“part of Merrill Field sits on a landfill. And so we are looking at how that impacts future development.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

0:08
Earl Malpass“We're here today to discuss the 20-year Airport Master Plan that's required by the FAA.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

0:50

Craig Sanders

“it helps support air taxi, commuter air service, air ambulance with a connection to Alaska Regional Hospital”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee ·

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Ona Brause“I think that's— I mean, that's the service area model, if you will. If there's a service you would like, then you sort of have to pay into the kitty for the service you want. I don't know the legal structure of how that would have to work out because police service area versus the actual downtown district you might be talking about. I don't know if that's within the DID or any— I don't know how we work that out, but that's an option.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:44
Ona Brause“the downtown foot patrol was enabled because of the additional funding from the TIPS appropriation, and it was specifically applied on an overtime basis because we don't have enough sworn officers to do regular, regular time foot patrol. So that's one of the layers of the challenge of how we are sort of patching these needs. There was one-time funding available from TIP specifically to do an enhanced downtown foot patrol, but that additional appropriation doesn't exist in 2027. So we either need to find some other revenue source to fund the OT cost associated with that operation.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:10
Daniel Volland“having a codified retention limit, how long data can be stored if it is not, you know, pertinent to an active investigation.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-108 amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.15.040 to clarify... ·

0:37
Anna Brawley“adding that to the list of things that are prohibited for municipal use and also limiting the the extent to which it can be used for evidence.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-108 amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.15.040 to clarify... ·

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Daniel Volland“removal of the language in the S version, knowingly and willingly, that, that be a sort of a predicate to allow suspension of the system when there is a violation. We believe that language, that qualifying language, is a little bit too high of a barrier for the Assembly to say, hey, let's take a pause on this if there is a misuse or a violation of this technology.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-108 amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.15.040 to clarify... ·

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