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

Jharrett Bryantt “we want to review and publish the results very transparently so we understand what the community is telling us.”

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

Jharrett Bryantt “This is a robust community engagement strategy that I'll tell you about in the coming slides.”

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

Jharrett Bryantt “Is ASD listening early enough on some of the biggest decisions that face us? And are we explaining the difficult trade-offs clearly enough?”

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

Sydney Scout “I would love to kind of get a peek behind the curtain there of who sets the policies. What does it take to change an internal policy at the police department if you're not police chief in 4 years, 5 years, you know, and we have this technology existing and there's somebody who is at a different place on the warrior guardian scale of policing, like, yeah, what does it take to change a policy in the police department?”

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

Sydney Scout “I want to clarify that what you're talking about, these are internal APD policies, correct?”

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

James Nelson

“So even when the power does get restored, a lot of the stuff on the north side, we're keeping sectioned off because there's downed power lines. We've had dozers go through the power lines, they're on the ground and stuff like that. I have 6 inbound linemen coming up right now from Southeast Alaska. They're coming up from Skagway, they're coming up from Haines, they're coming up from Prince of Wales. We have Golden Valley Electric, um, who's on standby also to come.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“There's not a lot we can do yet until the fire is out of town and out of our power grid. Then we can start to go in, um, linemen at night when the fire is coming down. We're going out, we're doing assessments, we're making lists. We have material already on the way from Anchorage for transformers, main lines, secondaries.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“We actually don't even do right-of-way clearing in the summer because it's too much of a fire risk. So the equipment running through there and mulching stuff up, they hit rocks, they hit sparks, off goes the fire. So we try to do this stuff in the fall and spring as much as possible.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“This year is another weird year, like I said, with the pine cones. It just kind of hit us out of nowhere about 2-3 weeks ago. We just started noticing all the trees started leaning over, and then as soon as we got wind, it was over with.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“We're going to have the power back up on the west feeder to as many people as possible probably here in the next half an hour to 45 minutes. That will stay on as long as the wind keeps down. If the wind comes back up, we got to cut it off again, and we might be cutting off other parts of town as too, as wind comes up or things start spring up.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“We can have more hands here by early next week, but there's not going to be a lot of power going on to the north side of town until all this calms down and the wind calms down.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“90% Of the time no one gives us that because everybody likes their trees and they like their, you know, their privacy.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“The biggest fire danger that we have is the West Feeder, so pretty much from our power plant all the way to Dot Lake. We killed this morning as preventative as the wind came up.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“We're trying to just start not any new fires is our biggest thing right now. So as the wind comes up, more power is going to go off. As the wind goes down, more power is going to come on.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

James Nelson

“The trees have a lot of pine cones on the top of them that got really heavy in the past 2 weeks, and that's mostly what's leaning over. It's actually ripping these trees out of the ground. It's ripping the roots right out of them. So we killed the power line this morning going out there.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

Emily Yorkstorf

“We don't have a system in this town that tells the people there's an emergency. And if that was there, everybody would have been evacuated very much easier, and there would have been a lot more less houses burned down.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A · Aug 21, 2026

Ona Brause “So we are about 58% through the year as of this report, through the end of July. And if you look on the lower right-hand side of the first page, you see that the municipality is about 51% spent. So we are underspent.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Ona Brause “part of that has to do with the fact that the overtime amounts have not been adjusted within the last few years to accommodate increased salaries. But overall their year-over-year spend is better than it was the prior year.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Ona Brause “Alcohol tax, 107% spent. Yay!”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Loren Crawford “Building safety actually is running hot, and we're probably going to end up something more like the 2025 actuals in the, in the $7 million area.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Anna Brawley “I was curious on, in particular, public transit. I see, and I'm guessing, I don't know if that's due to vacancies, just wondering, because it is higher, but I know we need folks to run the buses.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Loren Crawford “We've realized 75.8% of our revenue for the year, which is tracking on par.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “So how— so if we were going to pay attention to what has actually gone out the door, we would be looking at the expenditures column itself.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “So recognizing that, you know, with building safety, we're getting to the end of the building season, do we anticipate additional revenue in September and October from—”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Ona Brause “From the pandemic forward, public transit has had real issues with having enough drivers to cover the bus routes and having to do mandatory OT specifically in order to keep the bus routes running.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Ona Brause “It also has to do with the million dollars in the sheltering line item that was part of the 1Q budget cut, and we are still needing to move those expenses out of the alcohol tax and into the general government operating budget of the health department.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

Ona Brause “I think that that's a something we should dig into during the budget process with Director Rudolph to see what recommendations we bring forward and how to deal with that. But ideally, one of them will be an adjustment to staffing levels so that the overtime is manageable in the new operations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “If both Chugach Electric and MEA those exchange agreements actually come to fruition and we do that, we are still about a BCF short.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “Is it full? Is CINGSA for right now? Representative Fields, through the chair, it is not. It is about maybe half. I don't know the exact number.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “We have restarted conversations with Chugach again, and we are waiting back to hear their proposal on what they can do in this different timeframe.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “So as has been publicly noticed, we are in the middle of an arbitration with HEX to try and get the gas that we expected from them.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “What we are trying to do contractually is they will give us 1.2 BCF in exchange for us sending that same volume back to them by March of 2028. So we're not receiving gas that we get to keep and just, you know, use for our customers.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “we had a certain expectation of gas deliveries from the Cook Inlet at the beginning of the year. One of those— I guess one of those groupings of volumes was from Bluecrest.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “Information that we have since received from them is that they do not plan on starting their exploration or their production.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “We have not received any discretionary gas sales from HEX since July 26th. We are receiving 8 million a day from them, 8.1 million a day, which is their firm volumes. We were expecting more than that per what we viewed as our contract rights.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “back in April when we spoke to a number of you down in Juneau, we were expecting gas to start flowing in our system by September 1st from Blue Crest, and we were expecting about 1 to 1.5 BCF of gas. We now know that's not possible for that September 1st delivery to start.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “Chugach Electric offered up the opportunity for us to do a similar exchange with them, uh, for about 1 BCF of gas.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “we are working on an exchange agreement with Matanuska Electric.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

John Sims “the commission denied our initial petition for reconsideration— excuse me, our petition for, uh, determination of prudency.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026

Gray Jackson “I move and ask unanimous consent of the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee place the name of Mark Lundahl in nomination before the legislature for appointment as legislative auditor and authorize the chair to transmit the committee's nomination to the presiding officers of the House and Senate.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026

Andy Josephson “But I wanted to take 30 seconds to talk about Ms. Curtis. So I just want to thank her for her state service, for her exemplary performance and integrity.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026

Gray Jackson “As noted during our July meeting, after 34 years with the Division of Legislative Audit, serving 12 of those years as a legislative auditor, Chris Curtis submitted her letter of resignation to the committee in June with an effective date of August 30th. In response, a recruitment was initiated and a job announcement was posted to Workplace Alaska for 3 weeks. 3 Weeks. Last Thursday, a subcommittee comprised of myself, Vice Chair Fields, and Representative Kopp interviewed Mark Lundahl for the legislative auditor position. Mr. Lundahl was the only applicant determined to meet the qualifications for the position.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026

Gray Jackson “the motion is approved and the committee will place the name of Mark Lundell in nomination before the legislature for appointment as legislative auditor. And I'll transmit the committee's nomination to the presiding officers of the House and the Senate for consideration and a vote by the legislature on the appointment. But please note, if the 34th legislature does not convene before the conclusion of its term and therefore does not vote on this nomination, I will submit the committee's nomination to the incoming presiding officers for consideration by the 35th Legislature.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026

Gray Jackson “On August 13th, a subcommittee of Vice Chair Fields, Representative Kopp, and I, as mentioned, we interviewed Mr. Lundell, and after the interview, we determined that we wanted to move his name forward to the committee to be the State Auditor. I followed through with checking the references that he presented to us, and every one of those references recommended him with flying colors.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026

Andy Josephson “She stood up for us, and she stood up for the power of the auditor under law, um, even when it was under attack. So she will be missed.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026

Andy Josephson “I'm certainly not going to object. I support Mr. Lindahl fully, and I congratulate him.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026

Gray Jackson “Also, under Alaska Statute 24-20251, because the legislature is not currently in session, Mr. Lundell will begin carrying out the duties of the legislative auditor on August 31st, 2026, and will serve as acting legislative auditor pending consideration of the nomination by the legislature.”

Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026

Dan Sullivan “We are going to win with all of you. We are going to win for Alaska in November, and we are going to win for the great country, the United States of America that we love.”

Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026

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