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

Gary Stevens

“So we don't really know what's in that bill. We're anxious to see it. The governor has been very clear to me that he will present to us on the 20th.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:31

Bill Wielechowski

“the last bill we passed We were all told by at least one member of the conference committee that Glenfarm had agreed to it. And that they were going to put out a press release saying they supported it. And then at the last minute, they changed their position on it.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:17

Jeff Landfield

“Why do— why does the state keep stringing along Hex, John Hendricks, and BlueCrest when they haven't produced— BlueCrest, no gas.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:17

Gary Stevens

“We have not seen the bill. We don't know what's in it. We're anxious to see it. Of course, the problem is that this session, special session, ends on the 25th. So getting that bill on the 20th and getting through it by the 25th is very, very difficult, mainly because, as I've said, we don't know what's in it.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:20

Bill Wielechowski

“if the plan is to get us a bill and then just expect us to rubber stamp it, that's not going to happen in the Senate.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:28

Bill Wielechowski

“if DNR and the governor's office are allowing BlueCrest to sit on what we believe to be 300 billion cubic feet of gas, that is only hurting our situation this winter. If they're allowing— if they're blocking storage issues for this winter or not moving forward and helping storage issues, that is only going to make this situation worse.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:38

Bill Wielechowski

“the fact that BlueCrest has what we believe to be several, probably a couple hundred billion cubic feet of gas, and that's very recoverable. And we need to hear from the Department of Natural Resources as to why they have let BlueCrest sit on those leases for a decade and not enforce the leases.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:55

Bill Wielechowski

“Saying that we don't need anything, we don't need any property tax breaks, to we need a billion dollars in property tax breaks. Saying that yes, we're willing to pay our share of corporate income taxes, to which would be $466 million, to we don't want to pay a penny of corporate income taxes even if we're making $5 billion in profits.”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:16

Jeff Landfield

“Why is Hilcorp not being asked to help us with this problem when they're the ones who have demonstrated they can solve this problem, they can address the problem in Cook Inlet?”

Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10

0:23

Jamie Lopez

“what they did not say on APD was that the 72 is a subset of 962.. And so if you do the math and you include the arrests and the subjects that voluntarily complied, total is 1,085. 72 Divided by 1,085, 6.6% acceptance rate of services. If you do the 72 divided by 962 exclusively, it's 7.5%. But it's effectively a failure.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

0:46

Thea Agnew-Benben

“At the Housing and Homelessness Committee meeting on the 19th, we'll be doing a kind of cross-department presentation around unsheltered homelessness and the work that municipality has been doing to address camping. So you'll see that was on the— there was an assembly information memo on this last meeting, but we'll actually be presenting that on the 19th.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

0:32

Jamie Lopez

“basically yesterday, um, there was a report that was pushed through the assembly, by the mayor with little fanfare. And it was a report on AO 2025-74-S2, the anti-camping ban ordinance. And so more or less, um, it was done pretty quickly. It was done based on this dashboard, which is 123 arrests, 962 voluntarily complied, and 72 accepted services.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

0:33

Jamie Lopez

“When you attach outreach services to law enforcement, there are a number of people that are not going to accept it for the simple reason it's a barrier. They've been traumatized and they just won't take it. And then some do take it and then literally they're right back out on the street in short order.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

0:24

Thea Agnew-Benben

“the way that we do find people, is we have online reports which the community is giving us all the time, um, because I get emails every time somebody else reports. And so we're sharing that information every morning at 9:00 AM with that big outreach team.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

0:24

Jamie Lopez

“4 years, 10,000 hours of field outreach experience, 3 years past, I've been doing it since exiting homelessness, spent all of my savings. And more or less what I've been watching play out is nobody will pay to do this sort of job. They're afraid of liability.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

0:33

Thea Agnew-Benben

“when we're doing enforcement That is not like, that is not the first, that's not the first step in the process. The first step in the process is outreach and outreach is multidisciplinary outreach team. There's only one officer on that. Everybody else is a community partner from all different agencies, including the coalition and the health department.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

0:41

Jamie Lopez

“there's updated data in the presentation that was part of the assembly informational memorandum that was on the agenda, and that's what's going to be presented on the 19th... so yeah, it's this slide deck that was uploaded on Friday to OnBase, and, uh, 72 accepted services out of 890. Basically subtract the 72 from 962, and then I get 7.5 acceptance rate.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 · Aug 10, 2026

0:32

Alison Muñoz

“Election Day is getting closer.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 59 · Aug 10, 2026

0:16

Kristi Traver

“Frankie then connected us with Emily Bokar, who's an innovation strategist with the Municipalities Initiative or I-Team. That meeting, just because of people's schedules, has not happened, but it is scheduled for tomorrow morning.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

0:36

Kristi Traver

“how do we cut it down? A reasonable time, because I know I'm not going to do an hour-long survey. I don't expect anybody else to be there. So anyways, it is draft form, but once we get that feedback, have talked to the city, um, we'll bring that survey to the entire Commission before we launch it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

0:19

Kristi Traver

“I think in terms of follow-up, it's just Beth and Celeste, once you've had a chance, if you can send some feedback. If you are interested in attending the meeting with Emily Bogart tomorrow, let me get the time on it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

1:10

Kristi Traver

“the idea is do the survey, gather some input, then do some listening sessions with targeted groups of individuals., in the muni, different demographics, to get a little bit more in-depth feedback. Um, during the last 2 months, while we were kind of on a little break, Ari connected us with Frankie Dahl, who's the outreach coordinator for the Community Safety and Development Division of the Health Department. So just upstairs here to talk about how we could be working together with them. They have requirements or have wanted to do more in engaging the community, and them participating with our survey and our listening groups would really be beneficial to them.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

0:09

Melissa Skarbeck

“Those are some really pretty tough initiatives. So I'm glad to hear that we're so active. That's pretty wonderful, actually.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

0:07

Beth Fleischer

“I was just gonna say that your survey was amazing. I just—. It was a lot. It's a lot to digest, and I haven't gotten there.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

0:41

Kristi Traver

“So more of this is coordinating with the city's resources, so we're not having to do all of it ourselves or, you know, fundraise for resources to do it. And so that's the intent of this meeting. My interest is on once we have data, uh, they have tools that can do some really in-depth analysis that would help us develop good recommendations, um, based on that data. And then we can move forward into more strategic planning.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

0:44

Kristi Traver

“We made the determination that we wanted to get community feedback from women in the municipality about what were their major concerns, what would they want this commission to be focused on addressing through policy recommendations to the municipality. So we are in the process of developing that. There is a draft survey that was sent to the other 2 committee members, that's Beth and Celeste.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026

0:07

Beth Fleischer

“I was like, gosh, we don't want this many questions. And I read them all. I'm like, yeah, we do. Uh, so I hear you. There were more.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 · Aug 10, 2026