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0:26
“I would feel better if that read, all past resolutions with respect to the compensation of the Anchorage Mayor are null and void, just to make sure that we aren't inadvertently repealing past resolutions that affect the school board or the assembly or anything else.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:20
Steve Rieger“just want to clarify something just for the record of my thinking. On Section 7, it says all past resolutions are null and void.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:16
Steve Rieger“it refers to the compensation for the Anchorage mayor elected or reelected at the— and then after that, the words May 14th, 2024 special election.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:14
Pat Redmond“this is a 24-hour-a-day job. It's not just 8 to 5, 5 days a week. So it's 24, it's a, and it is significant.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:23
“the mayor shall receive a salary in the amount of $183,926. And just to a system-wise process.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

1:49
“one of the things that I I did request at the last meeting was that we be presented with what the actual COLAs were for the years subsequent to the last time that the mayor's salary was adjusted. The $183,000 figure came from something that was just downloaded off the internet, CPI tables 2019 to present urban Alaska.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:44
Karen Norsworthy“I'll make a motion to amend the draft resolution 20-6 to remove the 4 whereases, change the be it resolved language to the April 2027 election, and that under the mayor's salary it is adjusted to $183,019.20, and under Section 6, fringe benefits, B, last sentence at the end, and subject to any applicable federal, state, or local taxes.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:04
Steve Rieger“It should be whatever the date is in 2027.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

1:00
“it says this resolution does not change the salaries, benefits, or allowances. This, I think, was inadvertently taken from a prior resolution... but this resolution actually does change the salary.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:35
“we're not going to make much, any significant change in this amount at all other than what we've done. And since it doesn't go into effect until the next, after the next election... it doesn't affect the current.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:59
“we, we took— I took whatever the CPI you and I did off I googled it, but we also looked at what all of the bargaining units within the municipality did and all the increases within the last few years that they had made to police, fire, IBEW, engineers, plumbers, etc.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

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Pat Redmond“So it's still significantly below other government. I just keep thinking I have to pay this. I mean, I'm, as a taxpayer, I have to pay this. However, this is a significant job. I mean, we expect a lot.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:06
“The number should be 183,019.20.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:36
“In 2026, we had the salary of the mayor at $145,392, and that's when we— I believe that's when we added the parking benefits”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:07
Karen Norsworthy“It's a little disturbing that HR doesn't have that because that's what is used in contract negotiations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:53
Steve Rieger“did it appear to you that the CPIs that were— the CPI numbers that you just read off we're in the right ballpark. So we just, we'd just be, you know, tidying up a number for the sake of tidying it up rather than that it would make a material difference.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:32
Steve Rieger“The date of that resolution is September 9th, 2020. Okay, so we in 2020 we did not know the CPI for 2020.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:46
“what we use is we totaled up the CPIUs that we got off of— I forget what website... where we looked at the 1.2, um, increase in 2020. 2021 Was 4.7, 2022 6.5, '23 was 4. 1.1, 24 Was 2.9, and 25 was 2.7. So that's what we utilized, um, was that to come up with the $182,000, $183,000, some change.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission Meeting ·

0:35

Brian Boss

“We also had frozen water main last year. We haven't experienced frozen water main in my time at the utility, so that was very unique. So it changed the complexity of the dig and we pushed off a lot of work to the summer.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:18

Brian Boss

“The most complicated one was the one in South Anchorage, and that was also the first one we dealt with. It took us over a week to resolve, from March 31st to April 9th.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:17

Brian Boss

“The very last one we had to defrost took us the longest. And again, it was backlogged because of the other two delays. It took us over 3 weeks to resolve. It was a commercial customer. This was the John Deere dealership, Craig Taylor Equipment.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:24
David Persinger“One of the things that exacerbated the problem here within the municipality was that the Matanuska-Susitna Borough was in the same predicament with frozen septic and wells. So, there was— resources were spread throughout all of Southcentral, not just Anchorage.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:25

Brian Boss

“In my 20 years here at the utility, we've experienced frozen hydrant legs, but as far as frozen water main that serves multiple customers, I've heard of it, but I've never seen it myself. We had 3 last winter. What was odd is they all occurred within a couple of days of each other, right around the end of March.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:05

Brian Boss

“So, I mean, it's well over 3 times what we normally get. As far as frozen services.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:33

Brian Boss

“I went to a job site and I was talking to some of the people and they were so cold they couldn't talk straight. So, it was really just keeping people and equipment warm was a huge, huge deal. We broke an excavator claw because we were trying to dig through hard ground and, you know, those things are solid steel and it broke.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:38

Brian Boss

“if we tried to thaw every service right now, we couldn't respond to breaks or other bigger emergencies, and it would be a problem.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:45

Brian Boss

“What was different about the winter of 2025 and 2026 is we had to do it 2 times a week instead of 1 time a week. And so what that did is committed 2 out of 3 of our crews to this icing route, which gave us less flexibility to respond to other emergencies”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:29

Brian Boss

“So this particular main was 11 feet deep, so it was very deep. The ground froze very deep in that area.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:25

Brian Boss

“So, frostbite, hypothermia, that type of thing, and equipment malfunctions were paramount to address. So, what are the lessons we learned? We need to do a lot more customer education and develop a lot more customer education materials.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:13
Erin Baldwin Day“thank you all very much for your work and please stay warm this winter.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:22
Erin Baldwin Day“you mentioned in your lessons learned consideration of potentially tariff modification for emergencies. Is that something that requires Assembly action?”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:26

Brian Boss

“When I reflect on the winter of 2025 and 2026, I think of it as a prolonged natural disaster response.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:28

Brian Boss

“I personally think O&M is understaffed and we need to staff up more to address these emergencies. That costs money, affects our budget.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:33

Brian Boss

“Normal winters, that process of thawing takes private industry hours to a day to to do. Last winter, because of the volume of freezing services we had, it was more like days to weeks, and we had people reporting with a month out of water.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:31

Brian Boss

“last winter was unusual that the frost was getting down to 11 feet deep in those areas. Normal winters, that doesn't happen. Like I said, we've never experienced in my 20 years here frozen water main in the right-of-way like I showed you. But last winter, it happened 3 times, all within a couple of days of each other”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:38

Brian Boss

“Last winter, we received calls and reports from our customers of about 250, 240 frozen services. That dwarfs the number of calls we got in the previous years of the data I just showed you in the winter. I mean, if you go back to 2019, 2020, which is one of the bigger records I found, they were a little less than 100.”

Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:12
Kevin Cross“this land fell within the Port Modernization Project and scope of work, wasn't it?”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:19
Dave Hale“we've been working with staff for a bit on this to make sure everybody was okay with the realignment of this right-of-way. So we have no objection to staff recommendations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:16
Dave Hale“there's a bunch of projects going on down there. The modernization with the T1, T2, those are separate.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:15
Brenda Mills“Traffic circulation is not impaired. Vacation does not affect protected grid or OS and HP corridors. And no reviewing agencies or public oppositions or community council oppositions.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:16
Brenda Mills“I move in case S12908 to approve the plat for 24 months subject to the conditions shown on page 5 of the staff report.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:21
Brenda Mills“this action conforms with zoning and adopted plans. Existing row surplus only because equivalent replacement row is being dedicated. Replacement alignment is more suitable for future construction. Future northern access is preserved.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:28
Kevin Cross“this for the substation is a different project, and it is what prompted this plat. So the plat is actually a separate action as well.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:37
Brenda Mills“there's multiple acreage figures, so on 3 different pages there's 3 different, um, gross acreage figures: 1603.2, 1606.95, 1609, 1609.1. What's the actual gross acreage, just so we can keep a nice clean record?”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:40
Brenda Mills“just because of like the extensive historical, geotechnical, all that kind of fun stuff. So I guess you guys will go through site-specific review and like the utilities and AWU and, you know, these are all things that are still going be part of this project, correct?”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:04
Patrick Jones“That has passed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - July 21, 2026 ·

0:19
Keith McCormick“This is the infrastructure for mass surveillance. You don't have to feed in 250 cameras to track somebody. I just need to see 4 over and over and over again.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 ·

0:26
Daniel Volland“we currently have automatic license plate readers and are testing them, and the funding that you all voted to approve tonight is building out the infrastructure to use them in the future. That is before we have guardrails in code for this technology.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 1, 2026 - 2026-09-01 17:00:00 ·

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