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0:21
Daniel Volland“I don't know if I love that particular addition. I guess I'll just say that for the record. I'm not going to move an amendment or anything, but I do want to see us not water down a focus on the need for multifamily. And the need for, for greater density in more parts of town.”

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

0:59
Daniel Volland“I appreciate the emphasis on maximizing housing production and efficient use of land and public infrastructure. I appreciate the prioritization of multifamily over lower-density detached residential development”

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

0:42
Daniel Volland“move to continue the public hearing to the meeting of September 15th.”

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

0:12
Daniel Volland“I'm asking for 2 weeks. I think it's a reasonable request, especially in light of the public focus on this issue.”

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

0:44
Robert Doehl“we believe, one, with properties transferring to the municipality like from the school district for management authority will slow the disposition of them them. For instance, we cannot start some of those preliminary actions before it is in the inventory, and that takes time... we see it constraining as drafted, recognizing just the emphasis on housing is noble and important to where we have to go, but there may be properties where it is the weighing of those factors will be difficult under these criteria”

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

0:27
Daniel Volland“the intent of the sponsors of that ordinance, when we get to it, is going to be to continue the public hearing. Um, we plan on this week meeting with the municipal attorney, um, as well as Assembly Council, getting the attorneys in a room and going through that ordinance and doing more work on it.”

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

0:23
Robert Doehl“opportunities arise at a certain time where a particular developer and a particular plan and finances align with a particular property. And if you miss that window, you may wait a substantial amount of time before another opportunity presents itself.”

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

0:24
Daniel Volland“I just want to categorically reject any premise that says we made a prior decision, we can't undo it, or we funded something one time so we need to keep funding something. That's called a sunken cost fallacy.”

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

0:25
Daniel Volland“I don't, I don't see a whole lot of utility in postponing this. I don't think that's necessary. We actually had an entire work session on housing policy where this was provided to members... I also don't see a whole lot of risk of unintended consequences coming from a, a policy position resolution as opposed to an ordinance.”

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

0:32
Keith McCormick“We're talking about expanding resources for an asset that we've had the chief say he can change the policy on tomorrow, and they just update on the website and you can find it if you, if you know about it.”

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

0:54
Sean Case“the only piece of technology that is an active testing phase right now is license plate readers. Everything else existed prior to.”

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

1:00
“HFC's mission is to provide Alaskans with access to safe and affordable housing, and HLB, of course, is to benefit future residents, promote orderly development, and to achieve the goals of the comprehensive plan. So this work aligns with our public interest, our public assets, and we're trying to keep each agency sort of in its lane and operating in the direction that intended. So the Block 102 former Tozier tract presents a two-for-one housing opportunity.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Block 102 – Tozier Track trade with Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) ·

0:19
“So you are in control of allowing us to continue that work. I want to talk next about mission alignment because I think that's important. We're trying to align these public assets for public purpose. ACDA's mission, as we talked about a little bit earlier, was to serve as a catalyst, which is why we're here.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Block 102 – Tozier Track trade with Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) ·

0:27
“We are not here for changing the comp plan. We are not here for rezoning. We are not here to approve a development agreement or a lot of other things that will be sussed out before you see a single shovel full of dirt moved on these properties. This is the big— this is the first step, though, in terms of posturing these properties for development in a better alignment than they have right now.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Block 102 – Tozier Track trade with Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) ·

0:26
“So this is the beginning of the process. This is not the end. The first step for us to be able to finish negotiations, to finish arranging for this, the development agreements, as Bob said, that this is— we need your support to be able to do that. Doesn't make any sense at all for us to move forward in any discussions or talks without having Assembly support for the— for affecting a trade. If this will allow us to complete our due diligence, finalize all our terms and conditions, and move the exchange forward to execution.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Block 102 – Tozier Track trade with Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) ·

0:29
“It's located downtown, and the idea here is for us to exchange these two properties. And each property won't be developed identically because they're different parcels and they're in different places, but the result is that we're going to We hope to unlock two housing opportunities in Anchorage, as I said, one in downtown and one in Midtown, where we, we have badly needed demand for housing.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Block 102 – Tozier Track trade with Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) ·

0:13
“We want to move these properties to the agencies that are sort of best suited to help us get them developed for housing.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Block 102 – Tozier Track trade with Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) ·

0:44
“This is a multi— this is somewhat complex in terms of basically 4 different entities involved, but really it comes down to a simple idea of bringing more housing to Anchorage and addressing 2 lots that are currently not being exercised in the process.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Block 102 – Tozier Track trade with Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) ·

0:23
“we're here to talk about the exchange of two viable parcels in the municipality that we can activate and to use to help us with our housing needs. The idea is pretty simple.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Block 102 – Tozier Track trade with Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) ·

1:01
“Uh, it's not technology, uh, it's not license plate readers, it's not the right to privacy. It is, I live in this community and those speed bumps would kind of help me feel a little more secure because I got kids running around, don't want to get hit by a car. Um, and so I, I think it's always important that we keep We keep that into perspective that the vast majority of the population that we have here in the community are concerned about things that are like just the daily mundane, "I just need this a little bit better and my life gets a lot better." Two more slides for you. The first one, and you've seen this slide before, there's been academic research on real-time crime centers, peer-reviewed published articles from academic settings on what real-time crime centers look like, the impact they have on solvability. You see the study on the left from Hartford, Connecticut, 442% more likely to solve cases where there's real-time crime center activity involved, and reduction in crime when we have real-time crime centers.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AM 524-2026, Real Time Crime Center ·

0:40
“This is just the statement that I just mentioned a minute ago about the— on a quarterly basis that we'll review, kind of weigh that positive to benefits. Um, I, I, the reason why I put this slide up is I, I, I go door to door sometimes in some of your neighborhoods. I was in Northeast Community Council yesterday, and it's very, very interesting when you knock on people's doors and you ask them, what's your public safety concerns? And, uh, many of the things that I hear public safety concerns are still Hey, could we get some speed bumps for you Northeast folks on Dubin? One of the requests I got from two people.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AM 524-2026, Real Time Crime Center ·

0:16
“I can't type into AI right now and ask it, how many times have I said publicly the right to privacy? Because I've said it probably more than anybody else publicly. Uh, in the last 2 and a half years, it has been a fundamental focus of what we do and how we do it when it comes to technology.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AM 524-2026, Real Time Crime Center ·

0:15
Anna Brawley“the quarterly proposal was something Erin had shared in an earlier version, so I have not carried that forward. So this—. What's here is bimonthly or some other schedule depending on what it looks like.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:23

Jamie Lopez

“I would ask that the Housing and Homelessness Committee meeting or the Health and Homelessness Committee meeting be monthly. So you provide people the opportunity to provide testimony. You actually have your oversight authority over the policies, and you try to help people, because right now I am not seeing that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:24
Anna Brawley“my intention here was not necessarily to intentionally remove people, but just trying to find places for new members. And then just to be clear again, the, um, we can make all of these meetings monthly. What I also heard is people want to be fewer hours in meeting. And so we either need to meet less monthly or less frequently, fewer committees, or I guess just choose to not show up.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:34
Kameron Perez-Verdia“is the new Public Safety Committee quarterly? Based on—. I'm looking at the schedule back here and it's in— oh no, I'm sorry, Health and Homeless.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:41
Anna Brawley“Next one then is to, if we're moving housing, that's, so a few years ago, housing, the Homelessness Committee did add the word housing with the, I think, good intent to talk about housing, affordable housing, other issues there. But I think the experience has been one, that there's too many things to talk about related to housing broadly”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:37
Anna Brawley“please give me feedback. Let's say by next— Switching mics here. And I think please share that through Jamie, and she will collate all of that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:39
Anna Brawley“you'll see the ones coded in blue here are proposed to be monthly committees, and then the pink is really other. So whether it's their meeting as needed, so Legislative Committee doesn't necessarily meet every single month of the year or every other month or quarterly.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:18
Anna Brawley“Changes, whether it's frequency, whether it's, you know, you want to be a member, you would like to be in leadership, you don't, and then we can have those direct conversations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:12
Kameron Perez-Verdia“Does that go to a quarterly timeframe? Is that correct? That's the proposal that the Health and Homeless is quarterly?”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:25
Anna Brawley“the proposal is to get rid of what's called the Quality Municipal Services Ethics and Elections and move some of those functions into the Governance Committee and to call it a Governance Committee.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:31
Kameron Perez-Verdia“The only other question I had was that it's in here as "Still covers homelessness, which is about services." Maybe someone can explain what that means to me. What does that mean, that, that "which is about services," as opposed to policy?”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:28
Anna Brawley“I think we have a policy role, obviously, but I think a lot of what we hear in the Homeless Committee seems to be more briefings and information about, about services that are being offered and what the administration's response is.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:40
Anna Brawley“what I'm looking for is to try to make a decision on all this by the end of this month so that we can start putting it into place in September.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:26
Anna Brawley“So the proposal is to kind of put, not because all issues with homelessness are related to health and vice versa, those topics seem to go well together. This also means that AHD, our Health Department, is not reporting at two different committees.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:23
Anna Brawley“The next discussion is to move health out of Public Health and Safety and add it into, or create a committee called Health and Homelessness Committee. So obviously we have Housing and Homelessness, we have Public Health and Safety.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:15
Anna Brawley“I think there was discussion about making more meetings less frequent. And so I think that's Yes, so this is a working draft.”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:26
Anna Brawley“about scheduling and the committees that might be quarterly, I think, not only for health and homelessness, but for any committee where some topic becomes emergent, that we should have the flexibility to have an extra meeting if that's warranted. And all committees can schedule special meetings”

Anchorage Assembly: Special Rules Committee Meeting ·

0:39
Jharrett Bryantt“I'd actually like to move towards creating an in-house survey panel within the Anchorage School District.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

0:11
Anna Brawley“if anybody's listening who can donate something to give away, I'm all ears.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

1:23
Jharrett Bryantt“I'm excited to launch what I'm calling the Demystifying the District series.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

0:31
Jharrett Bryantt“my commitment that I'd like this community to hold me accountable to is to both take in the feedback, but then also show our work for how it actually made a difference and how it was incorporated in decision-making.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

0:34
Jharrett Bryantt“we can certainly show the raw results.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

0:25
Jharrett Bryantt“So what's next? The first step is that community value survey, and this is where I could really use the help of the Assembly. We're going to launch it on September 8th.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

0:31
Jharrett Bryantt“ASD Listens is really our opportunity to fulfill the promise that we made to the community after the bond and levy proposition.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

0:29
Jharrett Bryantt“We're going to really lean on community leaders such as yourselves and others to spread the word about the survey. The more people that fill it out, the more robust the conversation”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

0:58
Jharrett Bryantt“the outcomes of the most recent 2026 bond and levy propositions were disappointing for the Anchorage School District community, and it was certainly an opportunity for introspection and growth.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage School District Outreach and Listening Campaign ·

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