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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jharrett Bryantt
“we can certainly show the raw results.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign · Aug 21, 2026
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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'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
“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
Ona Brouse
“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 Brouse
“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
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
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
Ona Brouse
“Alcohol tax, 107% spent. Yay!”Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance committee-of-the-whole · Aug 20, 2026
Ona Brouse
“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
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 Brouse
“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
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
Ona Brouse
“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
“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
“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