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

Clips from Petersburg BoroughClear
0:12

Jim

“recommendation to the Borough Assembly regarding an application from Brian Newman to purchase borough property at 1205 Lake Street”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:24

Speaker B

“I move to recommend to the Borough Assembly to approve sale of borough-owned property at 1205 Lake Street”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:21

Jim

“recommendation of the Borough Assembly regarding an application from Brian Newman for a special use permit to fill a portion of of undeveloped Lake Street right-of-way for access to 1205 Lake Street”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:26

Speaker B

“Dave Omer's letter of support for this project. It's always nice to have neighbors saying they support it”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:44

Jim

“a slight change of subject, but it also occurs to me if we're going to put the, um, FCC compliance, that we can also put FAA compliance about, um, lighting and tower height.”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:13

Speaker B

“We can do under Commissioner comments next time. That'll be after 2 readings, and then we'll be ready or not to move it as an action item in August.”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:27

Speaker B

“My impression of the reason why it's coming back on the agenda is, um, public requests, public outcry directed at active assembly members, probably primarily Member Muchi, um, you know, heard people being cross that it wasn't continuing and requested that it be put back on in a new form.”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:24

Speaker G

“I move to approve the Resolution 2026-601 to allow a home occupation at 500 Utamack Street, subject to conditions of approval”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:31

Speaker B

“I move to recommend to the borough assembly to approve sale of borough-owned property described as government lot 26. Government Lot 27, Section 33-T-58-S-R-79-E, on the condition that the properties are rezoned to single-family mobile home”

Petersburg Borough: Planning Commission Meeting 6.9.2026 · Jun 9, 2026

0:25

Speaker C

“compared to 2024. In 2026 we increased overall satisfaction for employees from 84 to 91%, which is really incredible. This is well above the national averages.”

Petersburg Borough: Hospital Board Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

0:42

Speaker C

“We have either stayed the same or increased satisfaction in all areas that were surveyed since 2024. And significant progress has been made in a couple areas. So we're going to continue to focus on the great stuff that's going on as well as listening to those that are less satisfied in trying to translate those to meaningful improvements”

Petersburg Borough: Hospital Board Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

0:48

Jason

“you should always be proud and grateful that you live in Alaska because they have their act together. You're, you're probably one of the leading states. You were awarded the most money, but you're also well ahead, at least two months ahead of most states in terms of rolling out the program”

Petersburg Borough: Hospital Board Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

0:17

Speaker B

“I just wanted to highlight a couple things about the workplace satisfaction survey that we did in April.”

Petersburg Borough: Hospital Board Meeting · Jun 3, 2026

0:26

Speaker A

“I think, um, at this point, getting to $5,000, probably just staying there is probably a good idea. And I think 5,000 overall, all around, is just going to be probably what we'll probably hang out at, because if we raise it to 1,000, you know, 3,000, probably in another year or two we'll ask again. But maybe if we say at 5,000, we might be able to just stay there.”

Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026

0:29

Speaker A

“I've thought about this too a lot, especially when, um, I'm a younger assembly member up here, and then when I come in, and seeing that there's rates 20 years older than me and then nothing has been done. Now it's on this guy that's sitting up here today, right, to be that guy. So it, it— I, I always like kind of like incremental steps into the right direction.”

Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026

0:00

Tony Newman

“No.”

Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026

0:24

Tony Newman

“Uh, yes, I have a question for the finance director. Um, so I thought, didn't we— then this wasn't this— just vote on this last fall, 2 falls ago. So how many times has this come before the voters and it's failed?”

Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026

0:24

Matt Schwartz

“it's nice to think about this fall and just on visitors, but I'm thinking about businesses. Amount of money I've spent at Piston and Rudder, or I just ordered $80,000 worth of engines from Napa. So it does fall on businesses as well, and the local businesses will generate probably quite a bit more money than the visitors from out of town.”

Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026

0:38

George Martinez

“I had a horrifying fascinating tour of the sewer treatment plant a few months ago, and there's nothing luxurious going on out there. It's— it looks a lot like it did when I was first learning to ride a motorcycle on that road, Rob's backyard here.”

Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026

0:48

Speaker A

“it's better for anybody in the public to find an assembly member to talk to in advance because very little will be done right here during that time. Because like everybody is saying, it's going to take a lot to readjust all this. And I'd like to note to the public that it's really easy to say just put a blanket stop over everything, but it's never that easy.”

Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026

0:21

Speaker A

“This may not— like, everyone loves this, but it is really cool to see, you know, an effort to the first line of defense that we've been talking about for a long time. It's here, it's, it's sitting right here.”

Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026

0:16

Speaker B

“just want to, uh, say congratulations that we got our certificate of need. Yes, another big, big hurdle.”

PMC Hospital Board Meeting April 2026 · May 7, 2026

0:37

Speaker B

“they also had language saying that 110% of the height of the tower was the distance you had to be from another property, from property line. So we would want that also, right?”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:36

Speaker A

“if you're going to go over so many feet, You gotta go through the process for conditional use permit. Okay, so that way there are just things, anything that we say up to so tall, it's by right, up to such and such a standard, it's by right. But if you want to exceed those, then you do have the option of filing for conditional use permit”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:32

Speaker A

“we also should include, you know, the areas where the cell towers already exist on Forest Service land outside of— so the top of Lindenberg Peak and the top of Crystal Mountain.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:19

Speaker A

“It would just give them the right to sell property to a cell tower and have a cell tower put in without having to go through the whole conditional use process or anything else. So, which would make it simpler and would also encourage towers to be in locations we want them to be.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:30

Speaker A

“if the individual owner wants it, right? That's the benefit of the notice process, because I do know there are people in town who very much want to be able to sell, and there's some very much don't. So it's good to get it in writing.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:23

Speaker B

“the good thing about the notice process is that, you know, anything we're including in the overlay, we have to notice private persons. And so they would get a chance to say, like, no, I don't want this in the overlay, or I very much do want this in the overlay.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:31

Speaker A

“on this lot up by the Baylor facility, the stuff up closer to the Baylor facility is probably the area that would be the best. That's the reason why I kind of split that, you know, the line doesn't go all— cover that whole lot, because otherwise you're getting down closer to the residential.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:45

Speaker A

“It also makes it easier for them if they do want to put in a tower, they can— they go and look at the map and say, obviously, these are the locations the borough would like us to put cell towers to give the most setback to the residential and everything else, but also is properties that have good locations, and then they can pick off that list what will meet their needs the best.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:19

Speaker B

“another reason for this overlay is the Telecommunications Act does not permit municipalities to totally ban towers. And so that's why we're— that's a big reason why we're doing this.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:56

Speaker B

“it's because of the community desire to choose and recommend certain sites to wireless communication companies, um, so as to limit surprise and have some sort of public input in the locations, um, and kind of ease that process.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:49

Speaker A

“there's up, uh, Three Lakes Loop Road to where the mill is, and then there's some mental health land right around the mill, but this big Lot 12 that's right there is owned by the State of Alaska. And that would be a good potential location as well, because that is up at elevation.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

0:16

Speaker A

“there's those ones up. Up Twin Creek, the back of those, there's 2 privately owned industrial lots and a state of Alaska lot. And again, it would be a strip along the back of those would be a good location, I think.”

Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026

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