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Anna Brawley “we sent a letter that essentially enumerated the cost per police call-out, fire call-out, and the general message, and this is one I intend to take down to Juneau, is when the state and other entities aren't taking care of behavioral health and homelessness and all these other things, we do pay more in fire and police, like that is what happens. And also we all pay for it in emergency room costs because it goes straight to our health insurance costs.”

Anchorage Assembly: RESCHEDULED: Legislative Committee Meeting · Nov 6, 2026

Donald Handeland “because it's where we're 40% of the population, but I would imagine it's well over 40% of the homeless are located within the municipality of Anchorage.”

Anchorage Assembly: RESCHEDULED: Legislative Committee Meeting · Nov 6, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “And so what we are doing now is we are moving to a system where we know what it costs and we are going to pay upfront for those things. While we are paying down the debt that we have accrued on the things we've already done.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re FY 2027 Proposed Budget and Assembly Amendments · Nov 6, 2026

Teresa Roble

“ACT urges the assembly to rebalance alcohol tax allocations towards prevention. Return ASD preschool funding to the alcohol tax at the full $2 million so the ACE Fund can be fully funded— can they— can fully fund the $5.2 million plan as recommended by the board to the mayor. We additionally urge that early literacy funding returns to the alcohol tax. These steps honor what voters supported and work to meet today's needs while preventing tomorrow's challenges.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Teresa Roble

“Prior to 2024, the alcohol tax was used to pay for ASD's Pre-K and Best Beginnings early literacy programs. Currently, both have been moved over to the ACE Fund to free up dollars for homelessness. An early surplus covered that cost shift. This year, that surplus is gone. Keeping ASD preschool in the ACE fund drops its buying power from over $7 million to about $5 million a year.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Janice Park “I'm not, I'm not convinced that that particular use was inappropriate, and I would be voting against this particular amendment.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “This amendment enacts change in two places, both in Section 4 and Section 5 in Parts D, Assembly Notification of Policy Changes.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Anna Brawley “On a vote of 5 to 7, Amendment Number 11 has failed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Teresa Roble

“We support the city's work to shelter people in crisis, but crisis response alone can't keep up. Pathways into homelessness start early. Domestic violence, child abuse, substance misuse, and lack of child care can be attributing factors to families in crisis. Prevention costs less. Quality birth-to-five programs such as promoted through the ACE Fund return $6.30 to $7.30 for every dollar.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Teresa Roble

“We ask you to take a second look at how the alcohol tax and the Alaska Child Care and Early Education, or ACE Fund, are allocated.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Tiffany Hall

“They told us two things: protect kids and families from abuse and violence, and help people get into treatment. Those were the strongest reasons people gave to vote yes. That's what voters were promised. I have some concerns.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Tiffany Hall

“Pre-K and early literacy were moved out of the alcohol tax funding and into the ACE fund, which voters created to expand child care, not backfill existing funding.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Teresa Roble

“Prevention has averaged under 20%. Substance misuse and mental health treatment got 3.6% from FY 2022 to 2024. It has not seen investments from the fund since. The upcoming fiscal year 2027 proposes, proposes 69.5% for homelessness and 12.9% for prevention from the alcohol tax.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Anna Brawley “We will also continue our budget public hearings to the November 17th meeting, uh, after which we will be closing the hearings at that meeting and debating amendments and then approving the FY27 budget.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “I have adjusted this to state that that notification comes to the assembly in advance of a change in policy unless there is a legal requirement otherwise.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Eva Gardner “this amendment retains something from the S version, which is that any change in the retention timelines would automatically be a material modification.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Yarrow Silvers “Those recordings have separate retention requirements for very good reasons, including transparency and accountability. Um, and Anchorage voters approved funding for those.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Teresa Roble

“The alcohol tax was first voted on in 2019 with a homelessness focus and failed by nearly 8 points before the tax was relaunched for voter approval. Polling indicated that protecting kids from abuse and violence was the top reason to vote yes. The proposition was adjusted to represent what Anchorage residents wanted to support, resulting in the measure passing in 2020 by nearly 3 points. Although voters wanted this fund to have a prevention focus, since 2022, homelessness has consumed an average of 67% of the fund.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Anna Brawley “On a vote of 10 to 1, item AR Sorry, I don't have it in front of me anymore. Uh, AR 2026-328 passes the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Suzanne LaFrance “So I urge support of the S version of AO 2026-108, an approach that both enables modern policing tools and provides strong safeguards for privacy and accountability.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Tiffany Hall

“In 2021, I testified before this body that no alcohol tax funding had gone to prevention and treatment of alcohol use disorder. And now, 5 years later, I am here to say it again.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Eva Gardner “nearly every court every court examining the issue to date has determined that ALPR technology use is not a search under the Fourth Amendment because people have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their movements on public streets.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Tiffany Hall

“Today, about 70% of this fund goes to homelessness. We support the work to shelter people in crisis, and we respect the people doing it, but a shelter bed is where crisis lands. Ends, not where it starts. If we only fund the end of the line, we will never reduce the need, and we will keep paying for it over and over.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Daniel Volland “So what this would do is it would require either a judicial warrant or that, um, an ALPR search be justified by exigent circumstances and based upon probable cause to even do a search with an automatic license plate reader.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Jade Powell “What a wonderful thing it would be to see similar new and, yes, costly investments made in things like child care or crime crime prevention in our operating budget that would pay dividends in quality of life and prevention of downstream costs. Or as other members of the public have encouraged earlier, things like alcohol prevention services.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Tiffany Hall

“Since this tax started, substance misuse prevention, treatment, and mental health have received approximately 2 cents of every dollar. In 2025, zero. In 2026, Zero. In the proposed 2027 budget, zero.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Anna Brawley “On 11 to 1, AO 2026-S as amended has passed the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: Regular Assembly - November 4, 2026 5:00pm · Nov 5, 2026

Sean Case “if it does have some of those limiting capabilities that moves it outside of the exigent circumstance category, we would be able without this to use license plate reader to potentially find that vehicle, conduct a lower-risk traffic stop to confirm what we think may not be a bomb call, but still make contact and do that investigation”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sydney Scout “I have real concerns about ALPR data being used to enforce registrations that are out of date, crimes of poverty, things that are not harmful to the public and top priority issues in our community.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “I want additional protections for the public while, as best as we can, not hampering the tools that our police need. And, and I don't see that the case has been made that this is a hamper as an amendment.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Daniel Volland “this provides that the Anchorage Police Department shall not share ALPR data info with the Department of Motor Vehicles without the prior approval of the assembly by resolution.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sean Case “The fact that we— that we're mobile and we're not fixed in our license plate readers. The fact that we have the 14-day retention. It's not a pooled network. We know who's querying it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “So when does the quantity of pings become from the public to a private sphere?”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sydney Scout “I've heard that this is a duplicative amendment, So I'll join some of my colleagues in voting no and hope I can— or I can withdraw it. I'll withdraw it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sean Case “Uh, through the Chair, Member Martinez, since July of 2026, the Real Time Crime Center has been involved in 1,026 police responses. Of those 1,026 cases, 89 of them, or 9%, have used automated license plate readers.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “But I would be more concerned if we had the rate of usage of the license plate readers at a higher percentage, that would be very concerning to me because essentially it seems that we are able to still be police, police able to still do their jobs without necessarily all of the most modern tools even being utilized”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “That's a pretty low percentage. So it's kind of, I just, I wanted to step back from that. It seems like the arguments here have been made that this particular type of constraint would be limiting to police operations, but the police operations are pretty limited with respect to usage of this technology already.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “And so why wouldn't that be a concern for us? Similarly, that was a concern in the other case. Why wouldn't that be a concern for us?”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “On a vote of 5 to 7, um, Amendment Number 11 has failed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Sydney Scout “I do not want to allow for any technology that we are building out here to be used to arrest people, to put them in a situation where they are being pressured to self-deport”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “On 11 to 1, AO 2026-S as amended has passed the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission · Nov 4, 2026

Teresa Roble

“The upcoming fiscal year 2027 performance proposes 69.5% for homelessness and 12.9% for prevention from the alcohol tax.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Daniel Volland “a court case, United States v. Kyle, with U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Hill of the Northern District of Oklahoma ruling that a law enforcement officer's warrantless search of historical automated license plate reader data violated the Fourth Amendment.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Teresa Roble

“In closing, ACT urges the Assembly to rebalance alcohol tax allocations towards prevention, return ASD preschool funding to the alcohol tax at the full $2 million so the ACE Fund could be fully funded”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Anna Brawley “We will also continue our budget public hearings to the November 17th meeting, uh, after which we will be closing the hearings at that meeting and debating amendments and then approving the FY27 budget.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

George Martinez “I think it's challenging when we as public officials will use unscrupulous communication methods to get a point across.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Sydney Scout “I will note that this item was on the addendum, and so we really didn't get much time to review it. I actually do have concerns with both sections 2 and sections 4”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

Keith McCormick “when these cases get overturned, we're going to catch hundreds of people doing terrible, terrible crimes, get them locked up, and then the prosecution is going to be turned over because we're going to have to go back and appeal these back because we have violated someone's constitutional rights, and they're all going to walk free.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Nov 4, 2026

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