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

Nikki Stoops

“These listening sessions were not to end in themselves. Now we must carry your voices and recommendations forward to AFN's Subsistence Strategic Action Plan for 2026 to 2030 and our continued work in advocacy, engagement, and education.”

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Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins “I very much believe in balance on those boards, and there must be Native voices on both boards, and there must be voices that can represent subsistence interests on both boards.”

Facebook video 1118570150823121 · Oct 23, 2026

Jaeleen Kookesh

“So that's what McDowell said. It's unconstitutional in Alaska. So the result is that from 1990 to now, the state is not in compliance with ANILCA. So that's why we have today dual management.”

Facebook video 1118570150823121 · Oct 23, 2026

Treg Taylor “when, when those names go to the legislature, they should never be a surprise to the Native community. We should have that consultation and that, and that collaboration on those names before they show up for a sustaining vote by the legislature.”

Facebook video 1118570150823121 · Oct 23, 2026

Sheldon Johnson

“We have no balance for those that have true passion for protecting what makes Ketchikan Ketchikan without a profit motive. Would it be appropriate to remove the KVB executive director as an ex officio?”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Bob Evermann

“Under terms of Officer, I think you can note that the first advisory board, the seats will be drawn by lot.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Sheldon Johnson

“Yeah, we shouldn't be appointing an ex officio. So we're, we're doing the base and let the board make any other decisions based on the needs.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Marcus Weaver

“We've made the recognition that KVB is to be an ex officio member of the body.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Sheldon Johnson

“So what I would like to do is As soon as you get the clean copies, email out to everybody,. Right? So then what I would ask is that you email me back your comments. Yes, this is what we discussed, this is what we talked about, it looks good. And then we'll go to the city council.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Sheldon Johnson

“If there's information that we need, we can request it of KVB. I don't think they need to be Ex officio. So take them off and then you can— the board can invite them to meetings when they need them.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Marcus Weaver

“So a historic commission, Ketchikan Historic Commission is a city committee, and that would be an opportunity for someone to actually be an advocate to protect that because the people making money off Creek Street aren't going to be involved primarily with protecting Creek Street.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Ty Rettke

“Appoint people, appoint somebody so you have your 9. Yeah, as long as it's worded so it's not binding to that, because the way it reads now, it looks like considerations given or representing the false— makes it sound like they have to be at least these things. So I represent— just being a bylaw. Guy, you know, say the board may consist, don't say shall, get rid of shall, say may.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Marcus Weaver

“Yeah, we have a city resident member and then 2 members at large that are year-round city or borough residents.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Marcus Weaver

“This is a Tourism Advisory Board. It's about tourism, and if Creek Street wants to have their own representation, all they got to do is come to the meeting. So we don't need to make them part of ex officiato or on the board.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Ty Rettke

“I think, I think what I would do is I'd reduce the number of extra-official departments that you want to put in. That's just going to complicate it and get special interest to try and affect the decision of this operation, right? They can come to this committee at any time and speak”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Ty Rettke

“We don't get any applications, uh, we can choose a person at large, I think, because it's mayor's appoint.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Ty Rettke

“Although this does bring up a good point that other than the city council member and the, um, one year-round resident of the city, you have the potential to have 7 of them be borough residents.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Laurie Booyse

“Keep in mind these are people who are just coming to the meetings to answer questions. Yeah, they don't need to be called ex officio.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Sheldon Johnson

“So the next page, we're going to strike KBB off there as an ex officiato.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Ty Rettke

“This board is the way we've set it out is about the tourism part of it. But we recognize 1501 as KVB is adequate to the ex officio.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Sheldon Johnson

“Because otherwise it's like, oh, you only get a year, you get 3. Yeah, yeah. Then it makes it fair. The city council member will be reappointed every year.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Bob Evermann

“Just kind of agree. No, we kind of agree to delete them from a. And, but, you know, if, if the need is developed later on, the board can bring anybody they, they wish on, right? They can make, make recommendation to council, we'd like to have this person as an ex-official member.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Bob Evermann

“I think we should put in a recommendation that it is— yeah, that we— if there are other ex officio members that should be represented on the board, it would be up to the seating board to decide, make that board.”

Ketchikan: Ad Hoc Committee for Development of Tourism Advisory Board · Oct 23, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “I've gotten really interested recently in how we stack up against peer cities when it comes to things like fire and police. And so I just wanted to throw out, we don't really have any, like, coverage peers that I've been able to find in terms of, like, the, the land that we cover.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

William Falsey “we're to the place now where we're saying, can we afford to buy laptops? So finding a cut of this target, as the budget director said, it's not going to be easy. There's going to be— you'll have to do less with less.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Doug Schrage “So in other words, of the 31 people that have left the department so far this year, 7 of them did not reach retirement age and volunteered and separated voluntarily. We only have anecdotal data to support the reasoning behind that, whether it was attributable to the lack of a defined benefit, but it is a common thing that we hear from those in our exit interviews.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

William Falsey “there is not a simpler cut to find that is more painless than this kind of thing that we are putting on the board. Or if we have missed it, we're inviting someone to let us know what it is.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Donald Handeland “are you guys, I mean, I know this is all kind of hypothetical, but as you guys are doing that, are you looking at only 5% across the board or Potentially more in, in some departments because I'm looking at like snow removal versus the public transportation and the impact to more, I guess, people on that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “discontinuing that route entirely would be a massive impact to a very specific neighborhood and very a specific population of individuals in Anchorage. And Route 65 connects downtown with Spenard and Sand Lake and the airport, and it's the only bus service in southwest Anchorage.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Anna Brawley “regardless of what we would like to do, that decision is not reflected in our budget. So it's a great conversation for legislative committee and certainly does have impact on our budget.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “we really are in a fairly precarious position when it comes to AFD staffing, especially based on the retirement. I hate to use the word cliff because I feel like that's getting a little cliché at the moment, but we really do have a lot of folks who are set to retire in the coming year, and that is, that is going to create some additional complexities for you all.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Doug Schrage “We think that this next year is the year.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “we are incredibly lean when it comes to our fire operations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Doug Schrage “Member Baldwin Day, through the chair, we've had 31 people leave the department this year. Not all of those are voluntary.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Doug Schrage “We will start another academy in 2027 because we are expecting a large, uh, tranche of firefighters to retire at the end of April, which is when people normally retire. And, uh, I think there's a very large number of people that are eligible to retire.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “Just starts to like feel a little tight. What would that look like in terms of resourcing to do a third overlapping academy in a single year?”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “I think it's important to keep in mind that some of these proposed cuts and programmatic changes really do impact particular neighborhoods and particular communities more than others. Elders. And I'm looking particularly at the public transportation. Route 51 connects Centennial Village with the Muldoon Transit Center, and it goes by several senior living facilities on its way.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

William Falsey “what I want to say is that is not the game that we are playing here. We are playing it straight.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Anna Brawley “The mayor has an opportunity to veto our decisions if she chooses to do that, and then we have the opportunity to override that veto. So the buck literally stops with us. And this is one of our biggest and hardest jobs in a scenario that we're in right now.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “It's conceivable and not unrealistic. Have we ever done 3 academies in a year?”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “Yeah, thank you. Just following along with the conversation about the 50 potential retirees in FY27. Does that mean we will see 2 academies in 2027 as well?”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities · Oct 23, 2026

Gwen Holdmann “That required the formation of the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative. Diane was on the initial board that formed AVEC, which many of us are familiar with.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

Gwen Holdmann “a new governor, a new legislature, you know, they have an opportunity here to knock heads around a little bit to the extent that that's needed and get us all on a— get the ship sailing in a consistent path”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

Peter Asmus

“this book is essentially a lot of oral histories because a lot of the folks profiled are now retiring, moving on. Well, Chris, you're now in Portugal, obviously, but— and Clay Copeland just, you know, moved on from his job in Córdoba. So I think the other value of this book is sort of capturing this time when the innovation was starting, and a lot of it is sort of decentralized innovation.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

Chris Rose

“unless there's some major gas discovery that none of us know about, can get online fast enough, I unfortunately don't think that we're going to see that kind of replacement.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

Chris Rose

“the rail belt right now is still about 80% reliant on natural gas for making electricity, almost 100% for heat. And that's really a problem now that natural gas is in short supply. It's getting a lot more expensive. There's a world market for it.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

Chris Rose

“one of the issues that the rail belt really faces is that it is not operating as an integrated grid.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

Gwen Holdmann “It's actually really timely because last, last night we just inducted Diane into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame, and that was like a really, really, really cool event and a cool opportunity to share some, some stories about her.”

REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators · Oct 23, 2026

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