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

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Jeremy Zidek“Then we have a temporary housing component, and that can provide homeowners with up to 18 months of housing, and renters 3 months of housing. What we do is take a look at the HUD fair market value for the area that you live in”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“Your, your primary— it has to be your primary residence, and the max cap for that program is $22,400.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“One, it strengthens our case that there was damages that were outside of the program. When we go to apply for that for FEMA, we have, we have greater justification for that additional level of assistance.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“Getting back to our individual assistance application, please, please apply even if you're not sure you have damages.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“if you've been impacted by the fire, please go to our website and register for our individual assistance.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“we'll be here for the next 3 days, uh, and we'll have other folks coming in later to help with other parts of the recovery.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“if the federal government did, uh, declare for IA, our state programs become secondary because it's very clear that we can't duplicate benefits.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“On the federal side, the federal individual assistance, the thresholds are twice what our state threshold— or the caps are twice what our state is. So for housing assistance, they can give $44,800.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“Um, so the maximum that we can give you under those two is $44,800.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“The cap for that program is an additional $22,400.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“One big nuance in there is the State of Alaska can pay for things like subsistence camps where, um, the federal programs cannot.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Jeremy Zidek“The Disaster Assistance Center is at the Tok Visitor Center, so just down down the road here. It's in kind of the back area there. We'll have some signs put up, uh, tomorrow.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Mukluk Fire Community Meeting - 20260823 · Aug 24, 2026

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Darlene Huntington

“Tribal leaders and citizens Elders, subsistence harvesters, youth, and community members are encouraged to attend and share experiences, your concerns, and priorities. Lunch will be provided. If you can't attend in person, comments can be submitted online through September 30th at nativefederation.org.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 61 · Aug 24, 2026

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Darlene Huntington

“AFN is hosting a subsistence listening session on Monday, August 31st, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chief David Salmon Tribal Hall in Fairbanks.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 61 · Aug 24, 2026

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Darlene Huntington

“Those impacted are encouraged as soon as possible by visiting ready.alaska.gov The deadline to apply is October 19th. Our thoughts and prayers remain with everyone impacted by the Mukluk Fire.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 61 · Aug 24, 2026

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Darlene Huntington

“Governor Mike Dunleavy has issued a disaster declaration making state individual assistance available for eligible residents. If your primary residence or essential personal property was damaged by the fire, assistance may be available for housing, personal property, transportation, temporary housing, and other disaster-related needs.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 61 · Aug 24, 2026

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“Uh, it's not technology, uh, it's not license plate readers, it's not the right to privacy. It is, I live in this community and those speed bumps would kind of help me feel a little more secure because I got kids running around, don't want to get hit by a car. Um, and so I, I think it's always important that we keep We keep that into perspective that the vast majority of the population that we have here in the community are concerned about things that are like just the daily mundane, "I just need this a little bit better and my life gets a lot better." Two more slides for you. The first one, and you've seen this slide before, there's been academic research on real-time crime centers, peer-reviewed published articles from academic settings on what real-time crime centers look like, the impact they have on solvability. You see the study on the left from Hartford, Connecticut, 442% more likely to solve cases where there's real-time crime center activity involved, and reduction in crime when we have real-time crime centers.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AM 524-2026, Real Time Crime Center · Aug 21, 2026

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“This is just the statement that I just mentioned a minute ago about the— on a quarterly basis that we'll review, kind of weigh that positive to benefits. Um, I, I, the reason why I put this slide up is I, I, I go door to door sometimes in some of your neighborhoods. I was in Northeast Community Council yesterday, and it's very, very interesting when you knock on people's doors and you ask them, what's your public safety concerns? And, uh, many of the things that I hear public safety concerns are still Hey, could we get some speed bumps for you Northeast folks on Dubin? One of the requests I got from two people.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AM 524-2026, Real Time Crime Center · Aug 21, 2026

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“I can't type into AI right now and ask it, how many times have I said publicly the right to privacy? Because I've said it probably more than anybody else publicly. Uh, in the last 2 and a half years, it has been a fundamental focus of what we do and how we do it when it comes to technology.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AM 524-2026, Real Time Crime Center · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“the quarterly proposal was something Erin had shared in an earlier version, so I have not carried that forward. So this—. What's here is bimonthly or some other schedule depending on what it looks like.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Jamie Lopez

“I would ask that the Housing and Homelessness Committee meeting or the Health and Homelessness Committee meeting be monthly. So you provide people the opportunity to provide testimony. You actually have your oversight authority over the policies, and you try to help people, because right now I am not seeing that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“my intention here was not necessarily to intentionally remove people, but just trying to find places for new members. And then just to be clear again, the, um, we can make all of these meetings monthly. What I also heard is people want to be fewer hours in meeting. And so we either need to meet less monthly or less frequently, fewer committees, or I guess just choose to not show up.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Kameron Perez-Verdia“is the new Public Safety Committee quarterly? Based on—. I'm looking at the schedule back here and it's in— oh no, I'm sorry, Health and Homeless.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“Next one then is to, if we're moving housing, that's, so a few years ago, housing, the Homelessness Committee did add the word housing with the, I think, good intent to talk about housing, affordable housing, other issues there. But I think the experience has been one, that there's too many things to talk about related to housing broadly”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“please give me feedback. Let's say by next— Switching mics here. And I think please share that through Jamie, and she will collate all of that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“you'll see the ones coded in blue here are proposed to be monthly committees, and then the pink is really other. So whether it's their meeting as needed, so Legislative Committee doesn't necessarily meet every single month of the year or every other month or quarterly.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“Changes, whether it's frequency, whether it's, you know, you want to be a member, you would like to be in leadership, you don't, and then we can have those direct conversations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Kameron Perez-Verdia“Does that go to a quarterly timeframe? Is that correct? That's the proposal that the Health and Homeless is quarterly?”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“the proposal is to get rid of what's called the Quality Municipal Services Ethics and Elections and move some of those functions into the Governance Committee and to call it a Governance Committee.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Kameron Perez-Verdia“The only other question I had was that it's in here as "Still covers homelessness, which is about services." Maybe someone can explain what that means to me. What does that mean, that, that "which is about services," as opposed to policy?”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“I think we have a policy role, obviously, but I think a lot of what we hear in the Homeless Committee seems to be more briefings and information about, about services that are being offered and what the administration's response is.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“what I'm looking for is to try to make a decision on all this by the end of this month so that we can start putting it into place in September.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“So the proposal is to kind of put, not because all issues with homelessness are related to health and vice versa, those topics seem to go well together. This also means that AHD, our Health Department, is not reporting at two different committees.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“The next discussion is to move health out of Public Health and Safety and add it into, or create a committee called Health and Homelessness Committee. So obviously we have Housing and Homelessness, we have Public Health and Safety.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“I think there was discussion about making more meetings less frequent. And so I think that's Yes, so this is a working draft.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“about scheduling and the committees that might be quarterly, I think, not only for health and homelessness, but for any committee where some topic becomes emergent, that we should have the flexibility to have an extra meeting if that's warranted. And all committees can schedule special meetings”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“I'd actually like to move towards creating an in-house survey panel within the Anchorage School District.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Anna Brawley“if anybody's listening who can donate something to give away, I'm all ears.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“I'm excited to launch what I'm calling the Demystifying the District series.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“my commitment that I'd like this community to hold me accountable to is to both take in the feedback, but then also show our work for how it actually made a difference and how it was incorporated in decision-making.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“we can certainly show the raw results.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“So what's next? The first step is that community value survey, and this is where I could really use the help of the Assembly. We're going to launch it on September 8th.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“ASD Listens is really our opportunity to fulfill the promise that we made to the community after the bond and levy proposition.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“We're going to really lean on community leaders such as yourselves and others to spread the word about the survey. The more people that fill it out, the more robust the conversation”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“the outcomes of the most recent 2026 bond and levy propositions were disappointing for the Anchorage School District community, and it was certainly an opportunity for introspection and growth.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“I want to make sure the survey is translated into multiple languages and is accessible to as many people as possible. I expect the survey takes about 8 to 10 minutes to complete. We want to launch it after Labor Day weekend”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“The big ask is I could really use your help to get this in front of your constituents, and I know that there's a lot of survey fatigue and reluctance to participate in these types of things”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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Jharrett Bryantt“the board has to navigate a $40+ million shortfall by February as we prepare to submit a balanced budget to the assembly.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026

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