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

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Bo Sedillo-Whiteside“I understand it is being used for baseball practice, But I remember Dr. LeDoux stating that this was a temporary offer made some 15 years ago and was never rescinded. So. So acknowledging that folks do use that. I'm prioritizing the needs of the community over a practice field when there's numerous ball fields teams can practice on.”

Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026

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Dave Townsend“It sounds like we're interested, but we just didn't. We obviously want a lot more information, specifically the history, wetlands, bedrock, how it might affect some current relationships or agreements that we have there.”

Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026

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Bo Sedillo-Whiteside“I would imagine no less than 30 lots, including accounting for roadways, you know, utility needs or offsets. And then if maintaining some green space, you could even do that if you're creative with the development.”

Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026

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Bo Sedillo-Whiteside“we're going to have to consider is do we prioritize housing needs or current use? And so we're not going to find a single parcel. I would be shocked if we did that didn't have some sort of community benefit or use associated with it. It's just not going to exist.”

Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026

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Mr. Grohn (Committee Member, Kodiak Island Borough Lands Committee)

“It's my recollection that there was going to be some utility challenges with this site through the public works. So I would ask that staff verify that, give us that information. I also understand that this site is a lot of. It is bedrock, so developmental costs will be increased.”

Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026

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Mr. Grohn (Committee Member, Kodiak Island Borough Lands Committee)

“Just as a reminder too, the borough is under a joint use agreement with the city and if they are to deem, I think this is a step that has been missed in the past. If they deem this property surplusable, I think they owe it, per the agreement to notify the city who is the manager of said parcel, who operates the programs.”

Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026

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Mr. Grohn (Committee Member, Kodiak Island Borough Lands Committee)

“It is also my understanding that this parcel was purchased for a hospital site Many, many, many, many years ago. And this site has been utilized for recreation needs going back to the 2000s. So just from a point of clarity, it's been used for about the last 25 years plus us for recreational needs.”

Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026

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Bo Sedillo-Whiteside“I view this committee as kind of refreshing our perspective on available parcels. Do they fit the current need for housing development now, or could they? I should say, because we don't have all the information, but if we get the information back and these parcels, any of these parcels we're discussing are relatively straightforward to develop, we can Access and connect to utilities. Does that meet the goal of the committee of identifying parcels that are suitable for increasing, increasing land for workforce housing?”

Kodiak Borough: Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · May 28, 2026

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Amy Hughes

“Last week, TCC held a dedication ceremony in Fairbanks to announce the naming of the Andy and Barbara Jimmy Cancer Care and Infusion Center. The gathering brought together community members, tribal leaders, healthcare partners, family and friends to celebrate the lasting impact Andy and Barbara have had on Alaskan Native health and wellness.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 49 · Jun 1, 2026

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Amy Hughes

“The evening included remarks, cultural performances, guided tours and the unveiling of the cancer center, a space dedicated to healing, compassion and culturally grounded care for future generations.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 49 · Jun 1, 2026

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Anna Brawley“Mr. Boland, move to continue the public hearing to the meeting of June 9th. Second, moved by Mr. Volin to continue the hearing to. To the Regular meeting of June 9th.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“if you're here to testify on item 14D, AO202662 to create a Public Safety Commission, the sponsors of which I am one, the other is Mr. Perez Fridilla, intend to open the public hearing and continue the hearing to the next regular meeting of June 9.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“I will state the intent of the sponsors is to bring a substitute version. And so folks who did testify tonight would be welcome to do so again on those changes.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“She was screaming, holding a cinder block over her head, tears streaming down her face. We ran outside as fast as we could to stop her before she damaged property, but we weren't in time. Marcella tried to calm her down and asked, what's wrong? Cassandra could only say one thing. They're after me.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“My name is April Ratchford. I'm the Anchorage local lead for Moms Demand Action. So we do a lot of gun violence prevention advocacy and I really want to thank members Park, Baldwin, Day and Martinez for sponsoring this resolution.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“I want to thank you all for your support and also share a little bit about the work that we have been doing throughout the state with the Be Smart for Kids program, which encourages secure firearm storage.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“An ordinance of the anchorage assembly recognizing June 5, 2026 as National Gun Violence Awareness Day in Anchorage and June 5 through the 7th, 2026 as Wear Orange weekend to honor all victims, survivors and families of gun violence.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“On a vote of 12 to 0 that amendment passes, the resolution as amended is now before us.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“What is devastating, infuriating is that Marcy, Marcel and I were not formed until July 2024, despite having put in a police report. And I'm just urging both the Anchorage Police Department, this assembly, to fully acknowledge the. The damage that has been done not only to my family, but to every victim's family affected.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Anna Brawley“On a vote of 9 to 3 AR2026 144 passes the body.”

Assembly Regular - May 26, 2026 - 2026-05-26 17:00:00 · May 26, 2026

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Peter Micciche“I suggested the AVT. I am probably one of the few people in the state that has sat at every side of these tables, um, the industry side, the muni side, and the legislative side. And I like the fact that we share in the benefits when things are going well and share in some of the risk when they're not.”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Josiah Patkotak“what I'm proposing is, versus fixing all the different variables at the tax structure level without the information from the inputs on how that tax structure looks, what I'm saying is I think it'd be more effective to allow that negotiation to happen between the borough and the producer”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Josiah Patkotak“I can't go home and say, you know, they ask, Mr. Mayor, what's the deal on AK LNG? I say, well, we lost all of our property taxes and we have no gas going to any of our communities, so there's that. I can't go home and say that.”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Peter Micciche“My $150 is we're willing to negotiate to a point where we cover our costs and it will be significantly shorter than the $8.5 mil structure.”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Neal Foster“We have invited testimony. I believe we have 6 folks. We've got mayors and producers. First up, we'll have Kenai Peninsula Borough, then ExxonMobil, Pantheon Resources, Hillcorp, ConocoPhillips, and finally the North Slope Borough.”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Neal Foster“it's possible that we could be bringing the Finance Committee, I think, back to Juneau for amendments.”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Peter Micciche“Under the current terms, we're getting a lot closer to being kept whole, depending on the things we know and the things we don't know about the impacts of this project.”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Josiah Patkotak“it's our responsibility as elected officials and you guys specifically as representatives that we look out for the best interests of all of our communities and that the resources that we have to deliver, whether they're to market or to our residents, are equally shared by us all.”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Josiah Patkotak“what the, the 2945 on the GTP would do, it would enable, um, uh, the buck stopping at the, uh, the producer, the state, and the North Slope Borough, um, at an administrative level. And I think that, that information sharing and understanding is important”

House Finance, 5/29/26, 1:30pm · May 29, 2026

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Dean Paul“the way the current drafts before the S2 version are written, the veterans preference is tied solely to veteran status and not connected to Alaska at all. So if in the earlier scenario South Central Foundation, or whatever that company was, South Central Construction, was owned by someone who had served in Virginia Beach and had never been to Alaska before, they would get a preference.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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“We do think that the 5-year window creates too narrow of a gap for veteran-owned businesses to be established, and more importantly, it includes or it excludes a significant portion of the veteran population.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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Dean Paul“when we give any kind of preference, a local preference, a veterans preference, other communities have disadvantaged business entity preferences, disabled preferences, you are willing to pay more in the ITB context to advance that policy goal. In the RFP context, you're willing to go with not your preferred best option, but to the second or third place option, depending on who gets the preference, again, to advance that policy goal.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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“the S2 would reduce the preference by 60% for veterans.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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Dean Paul“Invitation to bid context, when you're evaluating bids, you would give a 5% bid preference not to exceed $50,000. Likewise, in the request for proposal context, you would then give a 5% preference on the available evaluation points when that's plausible.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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“the withdrawal from Afghanistan occurred in August of 2021 and the last combat troops left Iraq in December of 2021. And as I don't know if we have any history buffs in the room, but, uh, prior to that, uh, those, those dates, if you next slide, there is a significant amount of fighting that happened in those countries. Uh, and so the 5-year, the 5-year thing could exclude combat veterans.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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Dean Paul“the Request for Proposal process, or the RFP process, is typically used for professional services, lawyers, accountants, etc., or when we can't define the parameters of the thing we want so precisely that we can use the ITB process. Again, that's triggered when the cost is more than $50,000, and there we're not awarding just on the cheapest. We're outlining in each of those Request for Proposal packages a matrix of numerical evaluation factors.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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Dean Paul“What we have on the books now is only one kind of preference. We have only a local preference for invitations to bid only. And right now, it is based on a sliding scale. We give a 5% bid preference capped at $5,000 on purchases up to $166,000. We go to 3% if you're not to exceed $10,000 on purchases in the next rung, and then finally it caps out at a 2% preference not to exceed $20,000 on purchases over half a million.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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Dean Paul“At present, we take the best financial expert to send to the RCA for AWU and the bond counsel that we think will serve us the best, whether they're local or in Seattle. And we could change that, but I do think that is a, a big bite to take.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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“If you have somebody that's— that two people that are bidding that are both out of state and one happens to be a veteran, that is the only scenario where somebody out of state is is getting a preference over somebody local to Alaska. So I think that is an important distinction to make.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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Dean Paul“In state law, the state procurement is that you get a 5% bid preference capped at $5,000, 10 times less than the $50,000 that's being proposed in the current versions, and it only goes to veterans who reside in Alaska or partnerships, LLCs, corporations that are majority Alaska-owned.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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“applying a veteran-owned business to the RFP process is neither unheard of nor unworkable. Many places do it. Washington, DC, San Antonio, Miami-Dade County all provide for veterans preference in their process.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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Dean Paul“if we're saying we're willing to pay more for certain services, why are we trying to grasp the widest range of discharges instead of saying like we value honorable discharges. Um, as someone that served, received an honorable discharge, I'm not seeing why we're going down to general under other than honorable circumstances.”

Worksession re AO 2026-40(S-1), amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 7.10.010... · May 27, 2026

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Dan Stickel“Senator Kiel, through the Chair, I don't know.”

SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026

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Bert Stedman“Senator Hoffman and myself had a meeting with the Governor yesterday and expressed an interest in having accurate numbers for the modeling so we can make financial decisions. 'Cause you can't make good financial decisions without having the information.”

SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026

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Dan Stickel“for the conditional— for the conditional effect of the alternative volumetric tax, this is a one-time payment. Of $40 million upfront prior to pipeline construction or pipeline coming into production that is required to trigger the property tax relief.”

SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026

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Bert Stedman“we'll have to wait until there's gas, first sale of gas, to know the price, or when do you— when does the department think they may know the price of this? Gas.”

SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026

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Bert Stedman“The construction cost, Mr. Chairman, is highly— well, I think— Speculative. Speculative is a polite way of putting it.”

SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026

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Dan Stickel“AGDC has stated that they're talking about gas purchase prices in the $1 to $1.50 per 1,000 cubic feet range, and that's why we chose $1.50 as our assumed purchase price for modeling purposes.”

SFIN-260529-0900 · May 29, 2026

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