Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Kodiak Island BoroughClear
0:26
Kurt Froning
“Rather than spreading disposal costs across customers using average methodology, costs would be tied more directly to container size and collection frequency. The principle is simple. Customers who use less capacity should pay less of the cost, and customers who use more should carry more of it. That reduces cross-subsidization and creates a structure that is easier to understand and more equitable.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:17
Kurt Froning
“tonight you are considering a contract for the solid waste collection services in Kodiak. At its core, this proposal is about protecting the long-term reliability and sustainability of Kodiak Island's waste collection service.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:29
Aimee Williams“Alaska Waste has a lot of folks with lock bars and they just break all the time, and so they have to go out and fix them. And so their way to cover that expense was a lock bar rental fee. But we asked them to only charge if the lock bar was broken instead of the rental fee. So that was changed and that was removed.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:23
Kurt Froning
“This proposal is not simply about higher rates. It is about ensuring Kodiak continues to have the safe, dependable waste collection service it expects.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:26
Scott Arndt“As the manager Aimee said, I'd like to also shout out to Patricia Valerio. Worked with her over the years on, on the frustrations with the contract and some of the language that we weren't able to get through with an amendment and had to be dealt with here tonight.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:31
Kurt Froning
“Since 2020, inflation has increased approximately 26%, while our contract rates have increased only about 11%. Fuel alone has increased approximately 59%, along with significant increases in labor, equipment maintenance, insurance, transportation, and Kodiak's already high disposal costs.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:17
Aimee Williams“As the sole proposer, Waste Connections of Alaska received the highest overall evaluation score and was deemed both responsive and qualified. Following the evaluation process, the borough entered into discussions and negotiations with Alaska Waste on September 10th to review contract terms and pricing.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:46
Jeremiah Gardner“to remind the community that you can save yourself a lot of money if you recycle and you take care of as much of your own waste as you can to remind business owners you can work a little harder and move those roll carts around instead of renting a dumpster. Um, everybody's feeling the costs rise intensely right now, but I'm not sure we have much choice.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:30
Jeremiah Gardner“The legal opinion really didn't sway my thoughts on Mr. Williams. I really wanted him to take his place on this assembly, and when I was digging into it, I'd finally found the subsection in the code that defined what services were. And unfortunately, the way the code is written He's simply not allowed to take office.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:09
Jeremiah Gardner“I see no reason to hold this back, and I think it should absolutely be released in as transparent a process as possible.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:18
Jeremiah Gardner“Manager Williams, can you confirm that the Lockbar rental was taken out of the contract?”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:31
Jeremiah Gardner“I was pleasantly surprised to see a real gentle increase on the residential rates But I was a little shocked at the commercial rates. Seemed like a pretty giant leap. And then these statements really are more for the community. We don't have much of a choice by not having another bidder on this contract, and we need a solid waste collection anyways.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:32
Mark Vizcocho“we have rules to follow. And if I had a question, I wouldn't want to know the answer why— to get the answer to the why. And so I am— I think transparency would be a good thing for the people to know so that maybe in the future, like Mr. Gardner said, we can do some housekeeping and look at the verbiage much better so that it is more clear, more an understanding.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of November 5, 2026 ·
0:23
Aimee Williams“in the contract original, it was 41 included, and we renegotiated that to 45 because the 41 was a number that was created if those were always full, and they're not always full. We can't get any container 100% full, so we worked with Alaska Waste to come up with a different number, and we landed on 45.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:20
Scott Smiley“Hats off to them for being so cooperative and understanding with our gripes and moans and bitches about things.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:22
“Yeah, I am strongly opposed to releasing the attorney opinion.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:32
Scott Smiley“Well, I was on the Solid Waste Contract Committee, and it was an interesting sequence of events. I think there's a great deal of collaboration on that right from the beginning. I think that people wanted to solve problems in the way that would be most beneficial for both parties, or all parties, I guess.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:26
Scott Arndt“As the manager Aimee said, I'd like to also shout out to Patricia Valerio. Worked with her over the years on, on the frustrations with the contract and some of the language that we weren't able to get through with an amendment and had to be dealt with here tonight.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:49
Nova Javier“The assembly. The assembly this is for the assembly to consider whether to waive attorney-client privilege to publicly release a confidential written legal opinion from outside counsel Lande Bennett Bloomstein. The legal opinion addresses the election eligibility of candidate Jeremy Jerry Williamson in relation to active municipal service contracts held by Aimee Maintenance under Kodiak Island Borough Code 2.35015.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:38
Aimee Williams“Alaska Waste has a lot of folks with lock bars and they just break all the time. And so they have to go out and fix them. And so their way to cover that expense was a lock bar rental fee, but we asked them to only charge if the lock bar was broken instead of the rental fee. So that was changed and that was removed.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:34
Jeremiah Gardner“everybody's feeling the costs rise intensely right now, but I'm not sure we have much choice. I'm not really, really happy about it, but I do hope that we have a culture of community with our contractor, and if we're able to save some money on this down the road and they find that we're spending less because the community is recycling, then hopefully Alaska Waste would reciprocate.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:25
Jeremiah Gardner“It's to do what's right by the community, and in this case, it's following the code. In order to get Mr. Williamson on the assembly in his rightful place, we need to do some housekeeping on the code and that needs to be transparent and before the public. And we need to make sure that we do this right if Mr. Williamson does get up here.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:06
Nova Javier“Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:24
Jeremiah Gardner“the contract that AIM Maintenance has is with the service district. And the service district is part of the borough, or is the contract with the borough to accompany the service district? And I couldn't answer that to myself. I don't, I don't know how I feel about the situation.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
1:03
Scott Arndt“I'd like to, to clean that process up. And what it involves is, is requires one more person to 2 of us to initiate that and the mayor to agree to put it on the, on the agenda. Because what it would be, what I'd be, what I am requesting is first reading on the 5th, November 5th, and a special meeting with a public hearing on November 12th is what requesting for this.”
Kodiak Island Borough Livestream ·
0:30
Jeff Woods“when I tell you that they literally can't get parts of that building cool enough for the comfort of delivering mothers, that's a whole problem.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·
0:29
Nova Javier“Additionally included in the packet is information regarding qualification requirements about employment and personal services contracts of those elected to office. Elected officials with potential conflicts will be sworn in following the resolution of conflicting employment or personal service contracts within the 30-day certification window following the election.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·
0:35
Aimee Williams“that's for a total of $3,855,027, and that is with Davis Construction Engineers. That is for removing the existing chiller unit, building a new pad, um, Pouring the— or procuring the new chiller unit, mechanical piping, removing all of the old mounts, all of the electrical upgrades, the fire suppression system.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·
0:09
Aimee Williams“We would probably have to go to a third party and try to get a project manager outside of Providence. I still don't think our staff would be able to handle that and all of the stuff inside.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·
0:49
Mark Vizcocho“I also want to say, uh, thank you to Madam Clerk, um, Madam Manager, the outgoing Board assembly members, it's, it's— I wish we could have worked longer, but that doesn't mean that even though you guys are not here with us that we still not gonna— we can't work together.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·
0:19
Aimee Williams“I heard right before the meeting that he is the first Filipino member of the assembly, which I think is really pretty important. What a milestone for the community. So congratulations, Mark.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·
0:12
Aimee Williams“I think the biggest thing that we had to take out was the demolition portion. So you'll see on that Davis contract that the demolition funds are out, and that will get paid for by the R&R fund.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·
0:11
Aimee Williams“The folks that will be doing the project management have been with this project from the beginning. They are right now in my mind the best choice.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·
0:13
Scott Smiley“This is big money for stuff. I'm really happy we got the grant for it because it was going to be a pain in the butt if we didn't, and we did. So I'm all in favor of all of this.”
Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026 ·