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

Clips from City of CordovaClear

Craig Tarraga

“It does go in the shipyard itself in January. And then Kodiak, as they annually do, they'll be without the ferry as well.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Bill Lindo

“it would seem like a once a month sailing, it's just about guaranteed to be stuffed full, the ship. And I would bet that maybe a 3-week, every 3-week sailing, you're probably also going to have a stuffed full ship in the wintertime.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Kristin Smith “once a month would be huge. Twice a month would be fantastic, but realistically for, for the community, you know, maybe the school district can adjust that a little bit.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Craig Tarraga

“The only thing that would prove that is if we got enough we're able to take enough off the schedule to get some days in February, but that's it.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Kristin Smith “I think I've heard, and I imagine there will be comments coming tonight, but that ideally for the school district, it would be great if there was a very over to Whittier on a Thursday and coming back on a Sunday, and school groups could participate in weekend activities.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Craig Tarraga

“The yard is pretty confident they can at least take a month off the schedule, but we're going to go through all that the first week of September in Seward with the yard and see what we can take off. And so if a little bit of that's on the front end, the back end, you know, we'll do what we can.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Milo Burcham

“January and February will be no sailings, out of service. Sounds like we have some flexibility with up to 30 days.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Kristin Smith “January, February would be the blank months.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Craig Tarraga

“Right now we have booked the Aurora with the shipyard, and we're set for a start date of October 1st. We've made a commitment with them, but if there's, like was just stated, if there's some value in delaying that a couple weeks, we can have that conversation with the yard and see if that's possible.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Craig Tarraga

“There had been some comments I heard that there may be value in delaying, uh, a couple weeks if there's some schedules, uh, events of the first couple weeks October. If there is, I, I could go back to the yard and see if we could— if they'd be open to a delay.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Kristin Smith “if we go up on a Wednesday, they, you know, or come back on a Monday, they, um, ideally it would be going up on a Wednesday, so you have the 2 days to do it.”

Cordova: August 10, 2026, Council Work Session · Aug 10, 2026

Miles Smith

“So what are we going to do about it? Because it's a problem that the city has made. Now the city has to fix it.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“I will say that I I don't think it's going to make a difference because I think that the rentals are not necessarily businesses renting skiffs to people. I think it's with a business license renting a skiff. I don't think that's what you're seeing.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“Yeah, we don't have the resources. We don't have officers that could hang out at the landfill, you know, or even take those trips out there.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“Can we call the people here? What is the timeline for the fence? It's out for RFP again. We didn't get an engineer.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“The exclusion of watercraft— 14% on motor vehicle rentals excluding watercraft, and I'm thinking about Skiff rentals.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“But to actually get a permit from the state, just start shooting any— I don't know you're going to get that. Yeah, I wouldn't say very likely. Um, I mean, I can ask Charlotte to get an affirmative yes or no on that. Um, and I will say the bear that was dead out there was killed by another bear.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“I, I will support this. I, I think it is definitely going to impact me personally, but I think for the good of Cordova, um, we do need to look for revenue, and this is This is a way that's not going to hurt the locals as much as a raise in the mill rate or a change in the base sales tax.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“Motion passes.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“Talked about a few things. We are gonna— we have the new dumpster truck is finally here, or will finally be here Friday. And then we'll use residential.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“Zero. So we put it out to contractors, we're notifying, um, places in Anchorage. We've talked to Kodiak to get better because they did a bear biz recently.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“All those in favor of adopting Ordinance 1240 As amended, please signify by saying aye.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“could potentially have a detrimental impact on my business. I do understand that this tax is focused mainly on folks that are not locals in Cordova. Um, it is focused on excess, um, SIN items for this, the rest of the tax, and I will support this because I feel like at this point Cordova is desperately in need of a revenue increase. But I will say that, um, we cannot tax our way out of issues, and we need to stop taxing things and figure out a different way because businesses will not be able to function if people don't come because we price them out.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“Council Member Collins and I have talked a lot about food waste composting. If we could take food waste out of the waste stream, but it takes a lot of equipment. It takes rejiggering the whole waste collection system to do that”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“Our sales tax, including surtaxes, is looking at about $250,000 less than where we were this time last year.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“having to incorporate a fuel surcharge this year for the first time in the middle of the season and adding another percentage to a tax to a place that's already.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Miles Smith

“The hook trucks, you know, I don't know how much trash you have, but you can take things to the baler for transfer, um, and then they get taken out in the hook truck. Nobody gets out in the truck. So we're trying to work through some of those things.”

Cordova: August 5, 2026, Public Hearing & Council Meeting · Aug 5, 2026

Mark Hall “they, uh, they had, uh, Public Works Director, the Streets Division Supervisor, and, um, refuse out there, and, um, also AML. So they all met with the applicant and they were able to come to the conclusion that it's not going to affect anything where the location is proposed.”

Cordova: Planning Commission Public Hearing & Regular Meeting on Monday, July 27, 2026, at 6:30 PM · Jul 27, 2026

Mark Hall “seeing as no parties have come forth, uh, stating what direction, I don't see any reason not to go, uh, go forward with it.”

Cordova: Planning Commission Public Hearing & Regular Meeting on Monday, July 27, 2026, at 6:30 PM · Jul 27, 2026

Kathy Renzel

“Today, the Chamber is filling that role in Cordova. But it's difficult to foresee a future for doing that without looking at a sustainable path forward for funding the chamber.”

Cordova: July 1, 2026 - City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 1, 2026

Kathy Renzel

“This year, much of the work has been significantly reduced for destination marketing due to a loss of funding. Outreach to expedition cruise lines, meeting and conference travelers, and other targeted destination marketing efforts have been— had to be scaled back. So I'm just here to see if we can find a way to move forward together in the future”

Cordova: July 1, 2026 - City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 1, 2026

Kathy Renzel

“the Chamber is working hard and preparing for the Fourth of July celebration, and we're excited to bring the community together to celebrate our nation's 250th anniversary.”

Cordova: July 1, 2026 - City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 1, 2026

Kathy Renzel

“We can't realistically commit to organizing last year's Fourth of July celebration if we can't figure out a way to keep the chamber funded. So, um, that is a criticism, and it's not an easy thing to say. It's just simply the reality of our current, uh, capacity. And I just wanted to make it publicly known to the city and to the community that that's the case.”

Cordova: July 1, 2026 - City Council Regular Meeting · Jul 1, 2026

“I think that we're all on the same page here and wanting to see something work with CAM 2 there, and it's not a no on the project, it's just we all have concerns about the harbor entrance and making it good use for all the harbor users.”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

Andy Craig

“I look at it as kind of like a blind spot coming around the corner. Once there's a dock there, you know, and, you know, we know how the boats come in, especially the small boats”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

“I'm not opposed to this, them doing some construction there, but I think like Andy said, I think seeing more of a plan to ensure that it's not just let's do it and you do what you want.”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

Amanda (Staff, City of Cordova)

“Derek Collins? Yes.”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

Andy Craig

“roll call vote to, uh, on the motion to refer the, uh, land disposal back to staff for more information. Andy Gridt? Yes. Ryan Schutzey? Yes.”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

Andy Craig

“I would definitely want to see more of a design before I was happy with it because, or, and realistic then.”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

Andy Craig

“I think it's clear that we, we want it to work for him, but we need it to work for everybody else as well.”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

“if you put a dock there, then you put a big wide boat there, then you got a problem. Yeah. So that's why I— is that what you're seeing too, Ryan? Yeah, exactly. I mean, you extend the dock and then you have a 30-foot wide tender sitting outside of it, and it's— that, that constriction is, is noticeable for those of us that have larger vessels”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

Andy Craig

“if the approach went right there along that outer edge of that triangle, then they could basically park a boat on one side and park a boat on the other side and almost block the mouth of the harbor, which is not for a bottom picker obviously, but for a bigger boat or pushing a barge or something like that, it's pretty tight.”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

“I really want it to work. I just have reservations because I think that harbor, you know, it gets overused and they become pinch points, which puts other— it makes accidents a lot more likely.”

Cordova: Harbor Commission Regular Meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 PM · Jun 10, 2026

“Motion carries. 7, 0.”

Cordova: June 3, 2026, Public Hearing & Regular Council Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

Kasey Kinsman “I move to approve resolution 0626 22, a resolution of council of the city of Cordova, Alaska establishing the property tax mill levy for the 2026 tax year at its current rate, 11.44 mills for all properties in the city of Cordova.”

Cordova: June 3, 2026, Public Hearing & Regular Council Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

Brad Sapp “if this city doesn't understand that fishing is what pays, really pays the bills and the families that work in fishing in this town, that's what, that's where you get most of your money. Raising the mill rate and forcing people out of town to make it where they can't afford to live. Here you wait, see what happens.”

Cordova: June 3, 2026, Public Hearing & Regular Council Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

Mike Mickelson “I'm in support of keeping it where it is. I've had numerous community members come up and say they oppose raising it. And I certainly understand the financial pressures that we're under right now, but I just feel like this, this isn't the time.”

Cordova: June 3, 2026, Public Hearing & Regular Council Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

David Zastrow “although yes, our budget, our current revenue is supporting our needs, we have more than established that our needs are not met. And although our budget. We're not in a deficit, I feel like we're in a severe deficit with their maintenance.”

Cordova: June 3, 2026, Public Hearing & Regular Council Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

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