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1:06
Keith McCormick“This adds a layer of adding the charter amendment so that these are further added to the charter, can't be changed by just a future body or future mayor, police chief. It adds in the requirement for a warrant being required to track a person over time from the surveillance data. It prohibits the city from joining outside surveillance networks or purchasing bulk data.”

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

0:29
Anna Brawley“this is regarding, uh, restrictions on surveillance technology and, uh, uh, things related to, uh, APD technology and such”

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

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Anna Brawley“First is Brawley Amendment 2. The purpose of this one is to really more narrowly tailor the allowed use. And these are, I should say also, these are all code changes.”

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

0:32
Anna Brawley“This one narrows the allowed use of ALPR's license plate readers to a more kind of specific list”

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

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Keith McCormick“It also leaves out retention periods because I, you know, I don't think that that's would be something that should be part of a charter. That should be something that the Assembly is able to, to ratify or change at a later time.”

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

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Donald Handeland“is the purpose of moving this to, or portions of this to a charter amendment, is just to kind of, in your view, kind of raise the bar to make it so that it's more difficult for a future assembly or to kind of make any tweaks to that?”

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

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Sydney Scout“just thinking about the two different tracks here of guardrails now versus charter amendment going to voters... I'm curious for your thinking on why you chose this pathway of proposing an amendment to the AO that's moving versus a separate charter amendment proposal on the same topic.”

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

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Anna Brawley“It's closed. It's closed at this time.”

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

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Daniel Volland“The second amendment would be to put in the, in the S version also the language around when DMV integration would be allowed, Department of Motor Vehicles.”

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

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Keith McCormick“this amendment is a— adds a charter change. It does sit inside of a previous version, so this would go inside. It would not replace.”

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

0:32
George Martinez“some communities, from my understanding, have advanced, who previously did have, I mean, requirements for candidates, they worked against those, they worked backwards from them because of access and opportunity and some of the problems that come with gatekeeping.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:16

Jamie Lopez

“if you're homeless, what is your mailing address? Just Postal Service, but what's your full residence? It sort of just looks a little bit like it's not always an equal playing field for some people.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:27
Jamie Heinz“this provides that a voter could update their signature on a form filed with the clerk. Rejecting ballots for no sig match, one of the most hated. We find a way that they don't have to reject as many ballots.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:15
Donald Handeland“this is just to get your name on the ballot. It doesn't preclude anyone really from running a campaign or their ability to serve in office. It is just for ballot access.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:06
Sydney Scout“appreciate this proposal being put forward and what I learned in the conversations about it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:38
Anna Brawley“And marked after Election Day are the two most highest numbers of rejected.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:37
Sydney Scout“I think it could be a proactive policy to really strengthen our democracy. They're hearing from voters, getting feedback, and using that to shape their campaigns and eventually their time in office.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:05
Donald Handeland“For assembly seats, it would be 50 signatures.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:13
Jamie Heinz“it adds the commission follows the ballot return envelope review standards. So ordering us to count, follow our law. It just closes a loop there.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:46
Jamie Heinz“This provides that the certification of any recount— certification of any recounts conducted before the election certification are certified before taking the oath and electing the chair and vice chair.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:51
George Martinez“in cities that do have robust petition processes, they also have robust industry and robust industries and the need for the— because people get kicked off the ballot, so it becomes a legal journey as well.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

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Jamie Heinz“he found one of those and it says in state law that we're supposed to be certifying on the first Monday following, or we're supposed to be taking oaths on the first certification immediately after certification. Certification, our practice.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:36
Jamie Heinz“I was the deputy clerk in the Hainesborough, which requires 10 signatures, and then I was the city clerk for the city of Kenai, which requires 25. So Anchorage is the first city that I worked in that does not require nomination petitions.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:29
George Martinez“how many legal challenges did you face with respect to people challenging the— not only the verification, the signatures, but then the legal challenges in the appeals process with your history of working with ballot access?”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

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Jamie Heinz“we recognized that the language in code and that could mean any, anybody in the state or anybody in the country. And so this change would first have standing and be a resident of the municipality.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

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Jamie Heinz“And then, and I don't think that would be cost prohibitive.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:05
Jamie Heinz“So just a few housekeeping cleanup changes, no dramatic policy changes coming, but I'll put them in the Ask version.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:27
Jamie Heinz“Protect Against Fraud voters would be required to verify by providing identification or multiple identifying pieces of information similar to the existing CURE process.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:41
Donald Handeland“the original idea behind this proposal is not to have any kind of burden where we are limiting anyone and their ability to run, but just to establish kind of some minimum criteria there.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

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Dean Gates“the governing body should provide by order of the institution of elected officials by providing for a declaration of candidacy or for petition requiring the signatures of not more than 10 voters, or for both. Municipalities in Alaska can choose to do one or the other or both.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

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Anna Brawley“is there a scenario where we have observers and they're not able to liaise in the way that they should because use this discretion not to make someone available to them?”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:11
Donald Handeland“they were very helpful, and I think from my takeaway, put not opposed to the idea. They were actually— it was just kind of more tweaks on the numbers.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:11
Daniel Volland“So if I'm— if I'm— they all— 50 of those have to be District 1 signatures.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:18
Jamie Heinz“This changes the date that we turn off the livestream. In 2024, we changed the time for submitting an election contest. It was changed from being— they had 10 days to submit that until noon on the day of certification.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:26
Jamie Heinz“we have a vault where we keep the signatures on file and we prioritize maintaining current signatures but also our own, because they're wet signatures. People just don't sign the same on electronic pads.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

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Jamie Heinz“And this section was missed in those edits. And so now you're watching nothing happen at the election center for an extra 9 days. And so we're just asking that it be shut off, um, when once the election is certified.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:09
Daniel Volland“That the signatures have to come for the ones that are specific to a district.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:25
Donald Handeland“For mayoral and the school board, if those are at-large, for 250.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:13
Anna Brawley“we also have AO-2026-131, an omnibus ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending and updating Anchorage Municipal Code Title 28 elections. That is sponsored by Donald and Jared.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:22
George Martinez“was there a problem that folks were trying to solve with this that was identified in the statement, the sponsor statement, or etc.?”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:33
Arianna Bellizzi“maybe I can just I can— I'll write up a resolution and I'll put it up on our next agenda and be like, you know, this is something we're interested in pursuing. And then if it gets support, it can go to the mayor's office, and then maybe we can get more details”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 ·

0:27
Arianna Bellizzi“I wonder if the first step is writing a resolution, like formally requesting the mayor's office to collect that information. And give it back to us, because right now it's just like a me ask instead of like a commission ask.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 ·

0:10
Arianna Bellizzi“how can we better support— how can the city better support its commissions if it wants volunteers to do this work and make it meaningful?”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 ·

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Arianna Bellizzi“So I'd like to— I'd like to see staff paid for it and I'd like to make sure that women aren't bearing this like volunteer gig as part of their job unfairly.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 ·

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Arianna Bellizzi“one of the concerns that I have is how many, uh, how many staff people are supporting commissions, because our understanding is that people who are supporting commissions are not paid. And I'm concerned that that job is being mainly held by women, and so women are taking an unfair burden and they're not getting any sort of stipend for taking on additional duties. And so I think it's 100% within this body's recommendation to I tried to ask for more information about how many staff people were, like, how many staff, what the demographics of those staff were, and I was told that they don't have that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 ·

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Arianna Bellizzi“Okay, I will write a resolution and then I will put it forward. Um, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't like on a limb at this request, I guess.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 ·

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Arianna Bellizzi“I don't know, I kind of, I kind of stopped, but I was like in the middle of wanting to write a resolution about that stuff, and then I kind of came, came to a screeching halt. I don't know, is that like silly? Would anybody else back a resolution about trying to get more information and support that, like, we can only do this work if we have good staff, and we can only have good staff doing it if they're getting paid. And I'm concerned that women are taking on that burden more often.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 ·

0:21

Stephanie Ryan

“we're just now starting that because we're, what, a month or so out from the SAP S/4HANA. We had to give them a little time to work through those bumps, and we're now in that stage. So I'm really, really hopeful that for 2025, this workaround is just for 2025, and by the time we're ready for 2026, we'll have something in motion.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report ·

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