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Clips from Anchorage AssemblyClear
0:14

Tammalivvis Salanoa

“it looks like the Huffman and O'Malley Community Council, uh, one is also a mural.”

Anchorage Assembly: ONLINE ONLY Arts Advisory Commission Meeting 2026-05-04 ·

0:20
“I have a spreadsheet if everybody wants to just give me their ranking and we'll see how we compare. If there's one that really is a standout as far as where you all agree should be first, second, or third choice.”

Anchorage Assembly: ONLINE ONLY Arts Advisory Commission Meeting 2026-05-04 ·

0:49
“it looks like an overwhelming majority has picked the Huffman and O'Malley as number 1, so I feel comfortable with ranking that number 1 as the commission's number 1 as it stands right now until Rebecca and Young were able to submit theirs.”

Anchorage Assembly: ONLINE ONLY Arts Advisory Commission Meeting 2026-05-04 ·

0:39

Kimberly Ovsepyan

“I felt like that was kind of the downside to the Keys to Life is not having that permission.”

Anchorage Assembly: ONLINE ONLY Arts Advisory Commission Meeting 2026-05-04 ·

0:16

Eiden Pospisil

“we have some variation in the answer to the question about do they have permission from the owner of the, the surface of the area. And to me, that feels like a big question mark when it comes to timeline.”

Anchorage Assembly: ONLINE ONLY Arts Advisory Commission Meeting 2026-05-04 ·

0:27
“Last year we didn't put a cap on for an application, but this year we did say cap is $50,000 for an application and we had a lot of them put in $50,000, which is not going to be possible.”

Anchorage Assembly: ONLINE ONLY Arts Advisory Commission Meeting 2026-05-04 ·

0:32

Maria Halverson

“Yeah, but you know, keeping in mind culture exchange, business, something economic for our both our economic benefits. Education. So those are the areas that sister cities focus on. So what are the products that we'd like to see here?”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:41

Maria Halverson

“So I think if you two can get together, discuss, and also if anyone else has ideas of what we could do with Darwin, There's not really, you know, they just said for projects to work on together for the potential mutual benefits.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:30

Maria Halverson

“Yeah, so I will, uh, remind you, send you and Kelsey copy, uh, an email inviting both of you so we can start discussion. And again, everybody just email me for any ideas you'd like to pass on to Kelsey and Claudia to include.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:30

Maria Halverson

“So basically they are— what was the original email from? It's from the City of Darwin, their manager, International Relations and Sponsorship. So they would like— they invited you all to submit one or two proposed programs, initiatives, or project ideas that you would like City of Darwin to deliver for our two cities to work on together for 2026-2030.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:03

Kelsey Schober

“And Kelsey. I'm also assigned to it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:31

Kelsey Schober

“Marie, were there— sorry to just jump in— were there any guidelines included in that email? I didn't see them around like what they would like to see in a proposal beyond kind of the things outlined in our agreement, but like length of proposal, anything in terms of of what might be helpful for actually writing something, putting pen to paper? No, not at all.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:25

Maria Halverson

“So they are developing their 2026-2030 Sister and Friendship Cities Action Plan. So they want to emphasize that this is a call for ideas and not project proposals. It was due August 30th, but since you're not meeting till today, they gave us a deadline of up to September 30th.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:09

Maria Halverson

“So who is assigned to Darwin? I would— Claudia. Claudia. Claudia. I don't know who else is with me.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:27

Maria Halverson

“So, oh, it says we encourage proposals that align with the key areas of cooperation outlined in our sister city agreement.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:23

Kelsey Schober

“I was just going to say, I'm happy, Marie, I can reach out to you to coordinate a time for Claudia and I to talk, and then we can plan to have a proposal for the September 23rd meeting. And then if anyone else passes along any ideas to you over email, if you could share those with us, then we could work those in and talk through them further if we need to.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:09

Hiroko Harada

“Yeah, that was our children's artwork exchanges.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission Meeting 2026-08-26 ·

0:38
Anna Vernaya“I think it's good if we don't take the summer 2 months off from our activity. Even if we haven't been very active before, but to prepare that meeting in August when we return back to work.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:32
Emily Cho“we can have them speak prior to our final vote on whether or not we actually do fill out the very short online application. To become a member of the Sister Cities International. And so that will be in August.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:30
Emily Cho“So we will shelf that and loop back around in August when we reconvene.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:16
Emily Cho“the first idea that Anna shared is the International Carving Festival. Anna is involved in planning the event, and it's right now it's in its early stages, and it's like a 2027 kind of event.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:08
Emily Cho“The unfinished business around the potential new sister city of Recife, Brazil cannot continue because Claudia is not here.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:10
Emily Cho“So we do not have quorum. So today we'll just review the agenda and we'll make some more action items in August.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:35
Anna Vernaya“Either— I'm not sure about August, but maybe September, because in August I think we do have a series of things that we need to vote on, especially since we don't have quorum right now.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:52
Anna Vernaya“It's going to be on 26th, we hope, because at that moment we started to organize the committee of the International Carbon Festival here in Alaska, because it takes time.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:37
Emily Cho“That sounds like a nice community mixer since, um, It would probably— we'll probably have to dedicate a meeting for that because I would assume that if we invite all these leaders, we want to take the time to like get to know them or at least have them like talk about their community”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

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Emily Cho“We do have a— we do have some vacant seats.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:33
Emily Cho“At our last meeting, we discussed joining Sister Cities International. We are postponing the actual final vote of joining in August, but I wanted to remind folks to please visit their website and educate yourself on what it is, what it does, and the benefits of us joining. The annual cost for us would be around $1,030.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:20
Emily Cho“We do not have quorum, so today will mainly be a discussion, which is pretty fitting since most of the items that we have on the agenda are more discussion-based. So I'm going to call to order the meeting, 6:08 PM.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:16
Emily Cho“It looks like we have 2. Yeah, 2 vacant seats, or no, 3 vacant seats actually. Yep. Do we have a timeline of when we might have new commissioners join us?”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:42
Emily Cho“this is from Marie. It's an international cooking class, potentially partnering with someone like, uh, like companies like Dirty Apron to host a series of cooking classes featuring signature dishes from each of our sister cities.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

1:09
Emily Cho“maybe a good next step is to maybe we can like, like as a commission and as commissioners, we can sign up as a group for the various volunteering opportunities in town to support the existing efforts to provide relief and support for those experiencing homelessness.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:07
Emily Cho“So we can skip over everything. We are skipping items 3 to 6 because we do not have quorum.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:28
Emily Cho“Speaking of Palmer, I am wondering, Eddie, maybe if you want to, in your follow-up email, invite them to our August meeting.”

Anchorage Assembly: Sister Cities Commission 2026-05-20 ·

0:25
David Foli“And I said, okay, you know, yes, you're hired.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:17
David Foli“We will also be inviting the chaplain representative from the color guard and/or honor guard, and that, and Kyle had mentioned she might like to be there too. And so everybody is invited to that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

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David Foli“Do we have a budget for this, for this event? Not really, no. We have, we have, we turn in— there's certain things that we can do, sure, and we turn that in ahead of time. I let Marie know, you know, we're going to have these, and so that they budget it through the mayor's office, right?”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:11
David Foli“Those chairs are for handicapped veterans first. Okay, better. All right, then after that, everybody else can fill in the chairs.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:26
David Foli“But now the offices, they will— I have Senator Stevens, I Senator Sullivan, I didn't get a confirmation on. For McCasky's office, Craig will probably be there to speak on behalf, like, like last year. Oh wait, Nick Begich, the congressman, will be in D.C. and unable to attend.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:36
David Foli“We're going to set a date to meet at the Memorial. That's just to look it over, what kind of shape it is.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:25
David Foli“I think next year we might go ahead and, in case it's gonna be like this every year, we might go ahead and, uh, let you know now to start looking at to, uh, go ahead and contract in a person to run sound and music.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:03
David Foli“Does he mention about a representative or anything? Did not.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:25
David Foli“I will get you guys the programs so we can get those printed out. I'm just kind of waiting for a final answer on— because part of the programs is a schedule of events, and that is really hard if we don't know for sure who's going to be speaking from the senators and the congressmen.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:11
David Foli“You want us to request one? Just ask him. It's just asking, uh, will the— I'd rather know than not plan for it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:16
David Foli“The porta-potties, and we almost always get a bill from the police department, right? And now with more people on the board, maybe for next year You can delegate all that and share the load.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:14
David Foli“Who's the MC? Say, the, the Master Sergeant Schultz, same person from last year. Oh, I see. Yeah, he, he did it last year. And he said that he loved it and he wants to be a part of it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission May 5, 2025 ·

0:23
Marie Husa“We need to have a decision on that if we're going to change it, because I need to put that on the public notice on the municipal website. Since your meetings are public, the public needs to be able to access the location. So I need— we need to make a decision if that's what's going to happen.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission June 2, 2025 ·

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Marie Husa“Oh, that would be nice. It would. It's easy.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission June 2, 2025 ·

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