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Marie Husa“I would suggest maybe just copying Kyle to Al so she's in the loop if you do address it, you know, and of course, David, probably.”

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

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Kyle

“I have not heard back from Colonel Mabbitt's office, and I know we've been talking about this for a few months, so that's why I was asking if We could get like a little more background. I can send it to her office and see if that's something she wants to tackle”

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

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Laurel Foster“AMBAC is not able as an organization to submit a grant request, but what What can happen is the municipality can submit a request for a grant on behalf of AMBEC.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Susanne Fleek-Green“We need to formally sign it on behalf of the municipality.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Laurel Foster“the municipality, or the mayor's office in this case, would submit that grant application on behalf of the organization. And then the management and tracking of that grant will remain with AMBEC.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Laurel Foster“I will say it's looking— funding likely won't be available. Our next meeting is this Wednesday to discuss that further because the money that was provided was— or donated was provided to the 176th Wing, not to the Officers Association.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Jason Simpson

“So they're trip hazards.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Susanne Fleek-Green“we can get the right players in the room and Laurel, I'll just task you with convening that meeting, and I think it's probably M&O, airport, parks. I think we'll hear the same answer from Parks and Rec, and then we need to cost out what we think”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Susanne Fleek-Green“we need to convene this interagency within the municipality to decide again who's really going to own that memorial from a municipal perspective, and then they would be responsible for the bids.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Jason Simpson

“Earl and his people have been doing great things to keep it up and to fix part of it up and make it safe and make it more presentable. Uh, but the problem is still holds down is that nobody has taken or has ownership of the memorial.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Jason Simpson

“The monument itself is, uh, the wall, um, has got a couple major cracks in it. Uh, Earl has had an engineer that looked at it and said it's not in— it's safe, it's not any threat because of the way it was built of coming down.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Jason Simpson

“But then with the earthquake and everything else, because it's built on top of the old dump, uh, the ground has dropped.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Earl Malpass“we've taken care of custody and control over it, and we're just trying to decide if the airport will continue. If The Parks and Recs, they've said they've understaffed, under budget, and unable to participate in the upkeep of it. And so I'm willing to, but at some point Earl goes away, then who else? We just need an official decision made.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Jason Simpson

“our recommendation to the mayor's office was that the interested parties, the municipality, Parks and Rec, um, Earl, anybody else that they feel that needs to be in the discussion, needs to sit down and decide the way forward with it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Laurel Foster“I would stand by resubmitting anything for those funds because they're likely, they're likely not going to be available because it's not The funding is not with— it's not the officer's money, and the 176 has to decide what to do with that money”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Susanne Fleek-Green“For those two grants, we are happy and we will quickly act to resubmit them and to make sure, and then we can verbally reach out to both of those entities to ensure that there is no confusion.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Jason Simpson

“the people in the town who complained to the previous mayor, and he called and asked me to come in, and I sat down with him and he said, I've got citizens that are complaining because the flags aren't flying, please find out what's going on with the memorial. And a year and a half, 2 years later, this is where we're at now.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Laurel Foster“we are discussing what the appropriate action is for that funding because it was given specifically to the 176 Wing with the Officers Association. Holding those funds until the 176 could start the project. So it's technically 176 Wayne monies, not the Officers Association.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Laurel Foster“those proposals come to the mayor's office. And then the mayor's office would submit those to the organizations because I cannot believe that— I don't believe that AMVAC is essentially an extension of the municipality. So those should actually be submitted via the mayor's office.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission November 3, 2025 ·

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Angela LaFlamme“So you got a thing here with the initial budget is, uh, $100,000 seed grant. It's Phase 1. Uh, we put out some cost estimate notes, uh, structural assessment, uh, for safety, legal compliance, $15,000. UAA student contracts, multi-department, $30,000.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“this is a memorial that was put up 24 years ago, uh, an organization that is no longer together It's called the 11th Air Force Association out of Colorado.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“the one that's sticking up is a definite trip hazard, but it's been that way for like 7, 8 years.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Angela LaFlamme“Site safety and immediate repairs, $20,000. $10,000 Prioritized needs from report and contingency $10,000 buffer for unexpected issues.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“the face of it, there's some couple pretty good-sized cracks in it. And it just— it just— then the earthquake, the ground fell, and so it's like the ground around it is like 2 feet lower than what it was.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Angela LaFlamme“It was also built on the dump that used to be the city dump, and you know how the ground is.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“the next point in our recommendation that we talked about was that for the municipality representatives of the mayor's office, Parks and Rec, Merrill Field, the Air Force Association, and possibly also the someone from the city council to get together to start discussing a way forward with the memorial as far as upkeep, maintenance”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“That's why we are recommending to the mayor that, that the mayor's office gets this group of people together to discuss it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Angela LaFlamme“It needs fixing around the center the roundabout, the lights that are in the ground, the bricks that are holding up this whole thing, and the wall, the back part of the wall itself, just some structural repair.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“does anybody have any oppose? Anybody opposed? No. I demand unanimous consent.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“nobody's going to sit back and come in and start throwing money at it from the organizations until they there is a bona fide plan of how is it going to be maintained and kept this time.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“the only plan for the future was the Air Force Association or the Sergeants Association, one of the two or both of them together, was going to go over and maintain it, keep it clean.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Diana Ro

“Until they all PCS'd, moved out of state, or passed away. And the city, except for using— doing a use agreement and letting them do it on the property, had nothing involved with it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Angela LaFlamme“just, um, because what if we have to come up with money, uh, for them? We don't have any money. We don't.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Angela LaFlamme“Uh, event planning and promotion, $20,000. Marketing, printing, and outreach. Temporary LLC formation and legal, $5,000. Contract access and operations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Military and Veterans Affairs Commission August 4, 2025 ·

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Christopher Schutte“I move in Case 2026-0076 to recommend to the Planning and Zoning Commission approval of the amendment to AMC 21.03.120, the minor modifications, and Chapter 21.03.240, variances, to update the review criteria for dimensional variances and increase the threshold for director approval of minor modifications.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Christopher Schutte“the new language seems to imply that if there's a minor modification that goes to the director and that he or she does not approve, the director then has to— has to request that it go through the normal public variance process, not automatically goes back through the process. Is that correct?”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Christopher Schutte“I do think that the way it's drafted now where it has the automatic process that kicks it back to ZBA is adequate. So I would suggest that we recommend removal of that addition.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Christopher Schutte“As long as they reflect our two amendments and Planning and Zoning agrees with them.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Christopher Schutte“I move in case 2026-0108 to approve a variance from AMC 21.06.020, Table 21.06-1, and the Table of Dimensional Standards for Residential Districts to allow a single-family residence to encroach 1. 3 Feet into the required 5-foot side setback, subject to the conditions shown on page 4 of our staff report.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Christopher Schutte“I think based on the discussion that we have all had and looking at the existing code and process that these changes are going to be positive for the process and for the community.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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“Okay, it's unanimous.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Christopher Schutte“Even though it is a very unique property, it's clear that all of the standards have been met for approval. And I'm— I recommend that we do.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Nyle Williams

“denying the applicant his accommodation would create a significant impact to not just the applicant but the entire neighborhood.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Jason Norris“I just wanted to quickly ask about the public comment you did receive. Is there any merit to what was received there other than we just don't like the way it looks?”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Nyle Williams

“each individual private property owner deserves the right to be able to develop that land as they see fit.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Nyle Williams

“to require the applicant to change his property now after over a quarter of a century, it would be a great shame. To force that on this applicant. Um, it would create a hardship for him and for the neighborhood and a bad precedent to not grant his exemption or application.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Jonathan Lang“in, uh, the approval criteria, criteria A, it says, uh, physical circumstances such as uniquely lot geometry, surveying errors, and those other circumstances. Um, would staff be willing to accept an amendment to say surveying and construction errors? As a surveyor, I find errors that the builders make all the time, like not following the stakes that I set or building without getting a survey, and then the survey discovers the errors... I think adding in surveying or construction errors would give us a little more flexibility also in understanding the nature of the situation.”

Anchorage Assembly: Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - September 10, 2026 - 2026-09-10 18:30:00 ·

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Karen Norsworthy“you're not going to see an exact match because in negotiations you're trying to keep below the CPI-U when you can. Sometimes we do go above it in negotiations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

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