Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
0:08
Speaker B
“Last year was 10.8. I mean, it's really almost flat, so this would be an increase of $13 per every $100,000 of assessed value.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:17
Speaker B
“Yeah, actually, I have one of my staff putting that together again. I believe we are the lowest. Ketchikan's second at $2,000.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:32
Speaker B
“future ordinances to increase revenues, um, the sales tax cap, that's going to come before the assembly at the second meeting of May.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:18
Speaker B
“In 2025, businesses exempted over $25 million in sales due to hitting the $1,200 sales tax cap.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:38
Speaker A
“Just so that there's no, I think that this is going to, this for me, well, it's going to, uh, raise a lot of concern, at least anybody that owns property off the road or off the island, because it is, it is increases Jody shows on her other slide. So just so you know up front that we will have people here talking about the increase.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:18
Speaker B
“operations is 10 mils in, in 2026, and then the debt service, which is the 0.57 plus the 0.36, is, um, $1.93 mils.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:25
Speaker B
“on the left, the area-wide, this is what we can charge property taxes for area-wide. We can charge for, and we've had historically only been doing education.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:19
Speaker B
“There'll be a recommendation from the borough to have that raise that cap on.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:26
Speaker B
“Property tax is at the 10 mil cap for operations this year for Service Area 1. Of course, inflation and increased labor costs, union negotiations. I— we might approve this budget and then have to come back to you for a supplemental based on what happens in union negotiations.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:35
Speaker B
“We are going to have a few new slides. I'm going to talk about senior sales tax a little bit and how that's looking with the removal of the exemption.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:11
Speaker B
“And so we did in January collect $26,000 more in sales tax than last year, and in February, $22,000 more.”Assembly Meeting · Apr 30, 2026
0:59
Speaker B
“City of Kenai is going to be ground zero for this thing. I don't think there's going to be another community in the state of Alaska that's going to be as impacted as this one. And it was like a light bulb went off for some legislators when they're like— they don't know where Kenai is in relation to where the liquefaction plant's going to be and the fact that It's just outside our municipal boundaries, so no tax revenue will come.”5/02/26 Budget Work Session · May 2, 2026
0:16
Speaker B
“Kenai will be forever changed if we get a gas pipeline, when we get a gas pipeline. And we want to make that— most of that change, as much of that change as we can, a positive thing.”5/02/26 Budget Work Session · May 2, 2026
0:44
Speaker B
“What I thought was critical about the legislation is the fact that that, you know, one piece of legislation had— didn't take into account, I think, any funding for the city, like a city like Kenai that's going to have massive effect. The other, the committee substitute that was being pushed at least acknowledged these— the community impact and gave tools and mechanisms for communities like Kenai to request funding.”5/02/26 Budget Work Session · May 2, 2026
0:40
Speaker B
“the 18th, the gas line folks are going to be bringing I don't know their number. They're bringing 4 aircraft in. They originally wanted to bring in 8 aircraft, and I had to inform them that on the 18th, on the 18th of May, for a site visit, and they're going to have a meeting at our visitor center.”5/02/26 Budget Work Session · May 2, 2026
0:28
Speaker B
“funding doesn't— tax revenue doesn't flow into the borough and then to us. Our tax revenue flows through the borough to us, but the borough doesn't share their tax revenue necessarily with the city. And, you know, it shocked me a little bit that state legislators honestly didn't understand those, these relationships, and they're making assumptions when they're looking at this legislation.”5/02/26 Budget Work Session · May 2, 2026
0:34
Speaker B
“when that decision gets made, I think you're gonna see a lot of movement because when you bring thousands of individuals here labor-wise to the community to build the liquefaction plant in Nikiski, they're coming through the Kenai Airport. And that's always been the plan. I don't think that plan's changed.”5/02/26 Budget Work Session · May 2, 2026
0:45
Speaker B
“the FY27 budget that's being presented to you today, I think it continues the city's tradition of sustainability. Some key factors I think you'll— you should note in this, um, that I think we are, again, continuing to invest in what's the city's most valuable resource, that's its people. It's got a 2% COLA in here for wages for all staff.”5/02/26 Budget Work Session · May 2, 2026
0:34
Speaker B
“this budget includes increasing that paramedic pay incentive from 5% to 15%.”5/02/26 Budget Work Session · May 2, 2026
0:59
Speaker A
“This meaningful event honored lives of those we have lost, including victims of unsolved homicides, and creating a space for reflection, healing, and unity.”TCC Weekly Episode 46 · May 11, 2026
0:25
Speaker A
“Last week, a gathering of remembrance took place on May 5th at Golden Heart Plaza Bridge in Fairbanks.”TCC Weekly Episode 46 · May 11, 2026
0:59
Speaker A
“TCC is proud to announce that Fitch Ratings has upgraded TCC's bond rating to a AA-, an increase from the A+ rating the organization has maintained over the past several years.”TCC Weekly Episode 47 · May 18, 2026
0:24
Matt Schwartz
“it's nice to think about this fall and just on visitors, but I'm thinking about businesses. Amount of money I've spent at Piston and Rudder, or I just ordered $80,000 worth of engines from Napa. So it does fall on businesses as well, and the local businesses will generate probably quite a bit more money than the visitors from out of town.”Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:16
Speaker B
“just want to, uh, say congratulations that we got our certificate of need. Yes, another big, big hurdle.”PMC Hospital Board Meeting April 2026 · May 7, 2026
0:23
Speaker B
“the good thing about the notice process is that, you know, anything we're including in the overlay, we have to notice private persons. And so they would get a chance to say, like, no, I don't want this in the overlay, or I very much do want this in the overlay.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:45
Speaker A
“It also makes it easier for them if they do want to put in a tower, they can— they go and look at the map and say, obviously, these are the locations the borough would like us to put cell towers to give the most setback to the residential and everything else, but also is properties that have good locations, and then they can pick off that list what will meet their needs the best.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:19
Speaker A
“It would just give them the right to sell property to a cell tower and have a cell tower put in without having to go through the whole conditional use process or anything else. So, which would make it simpler and would also encourage towers to be in locations we want them to be.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:32
Speaker A
“we also should include, you know, the areas where the cell towers already exist on Forest Service land outside of— so the top of Lindenberg Peak and the top of Crystal Mountain.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:19
Speaker B
“another reason for this overlay is the Telecommunications Act does not permit municipalities to totally ban towers. And so that's why we're— that's a big reason why we're doing this.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:36
Speaker A
“if you're going to go over so many feet, You gotta go through the process for conditional use permit. Okay, so that way there are just things, anything that we say up to so tall, it's by right, up to such and such a standard, it's by right. But if you want to exceed those, then you do have the option of filing for conditional use permit”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:37
Speaker B
“they also had language saying that 110% of the height of the tower was the distance you had to be from another property, from property line. So we would want that also, right?”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:56
Speaker B
“it's because of the community desire to choose and recommend certain sites to wireless communication companies, um, so as to limit surprise and have some sort of public input in the locations, um, and kind of ease that process.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:49
Speaker A
“there's up, uh, Three Lakes Loop Road to where the mill is, and then there's some mental health land right around the mill, but this big Lot 12 that's right there is owned by the State of Alaska. And that would be a good potential location as well, because that is up at elevation.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:16
Speaker A
“there's those ones up. Up Twin Creek, the back of those, there's 2 privately owned industrial lots and a state of Alaska lot. And again, it would be a strip along the back of those would be a good location, I think.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026