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

“One of the risks that we have— I'm not as concerned, frankly, with that health concepts are going to be taught in K-3 because it is in CKLA and we have over a 90% implementation of CKLA. I would be more concerned if it was a standalone curriculum because there are no minutes to teach it. If we count up the minutes within the day and the minutes that it takes for our students for reading, for math, for science, for social studies, there are not even— there we can fit the 30-minute SEL block on Mondays because we have reduced reading on Mondays because of PLCs. There is not a 30-minute time block within our day”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“throughout the year we'll be doing in-depth training for our grade-level teachers on, especially our 4th and 5th graders, teachers who haven't had to teach human growth and development in some time. It used to be part of grade-level instruction, and I think most teachers who have taught out of the Anchorage School District are used to teaching those topics. Anchorage School District is one of the few school districts that actually has had separate health teachers to teach those topics”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“Where I worry is getting the time to get in front of them to do the training with them. I feel confident that we're going to be able to do that this year because it's just the 4th and 5th grade teachers, and I think that if we offer enough training sessions both during the day and after, after school, compensated, that we'll be able to get to everybody.”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“In CKLA, they're going to have 20 hours or more of deep understanding about nutrition, about nutrients, all the parts, how it works in the body, why you need all of those pieces, and it's going to be every day for several weeks.”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“we're increasing the time for PE next year from 90 minutes to 100 minutes weekly. That gets us to— when we add our PE time in there, that's 50 minutes a week on average of daily physical activity, which gets us very close to that required CDC 54 minutes.”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“starting with the ELA, we have, um, really in-depth integrated health studies at our kindergarten through 3rd grade levels. In all of these grade levels, we have in-depth units that are part of our reading curriculum, and They start with the 5 senses down in kindergarten, and then they become more complex as we go on. Students will have anywhere between about 7 to 20, 25 hours of direct instruction in these topics as part of their language arts curriculum.”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“what are the risks of proceeding with an implementation that had to skip the core early steps. And I would list those as usually we would like to create a comprehensive task force to develop implementation goals and objectives and then pilot it at a certain number of schools and then do an intimate fidelity evaluation of those schools, then have that create a reiteration mechanic so that the scaling mechanism has a way of hearing upon itself.”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“this change was spurred because we, we have changed so much of the elementary specialist model by taking 27.5 art and music teachers away, and then that opened up this sort of cascade in addition to the PTR, which drove another about 20 reductions of specials that would be going to health and PE. Um, so I'm essentially acknowledging, is it correct to say this is spurred because the resources taken away, about $4 million from elementary specials, has caused the need to reorganize?”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“We know that we have some targeted units and we will continue to offer those targeted units in the 4th and 5th grade. Some of those include human growth and development as well as some of the substance abuse prevention lessons. We want to make sure that our students have what they need as they move forward into middle school. Those lessons will be the same lessons that they have always taught through the Great Body Shop.”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“What we found is that the way the topics are covered in CKLA is actually a deeper understanding and gets into more of the health concepts than often the touch at Great Body Shop. Because Great Body Shop, let's say nutrition, it was just a touch. It was like an hour. Within our health curriculum, students had 18 hours a year of health.”

5/19/2026: School Board Work Session · May 20, 2026

“we're putting a lot of effort onto this particular project because it is an important delivery for the region, fairly high dollar value for us, and we'd like to get that on the street.”

Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: April 2026 · May 20, 2026

Shannon McCarthy “we all will be able to utilize that full $70, roughly $70 million, to deliver a full construction program this summer. So very good news on that front. And then the also additional good news is that those funds will be also rolled— that match, I should say, will be rolled into the 2026-2029 STIP, so it will also be a robust STIP”

Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: April 2026 · May 20, 2026

Kristin Smith “It's called a homeowner's exemption, and I think it can be up to $75,000.”

May 20, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 21, 2026

Kristin Smith “I wanted to urge people who are listening and to people who are following this issue, especially here, to not to oversimplify what's happening with our decisions here tonight, because I think the whole issue around school funding is it's not just there's a gap locally and we may or may not raise property taxes to cover it.”

May 20, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 21, 2026

Kristin Smith “We know that funding coming from the federal level is a lot less than it has been. In many forms, which means that the city is having to make up for a lot of different things. It's not just the school. We know the fuel costs are increasing.”

May 20, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 21, 2026

Kristin Smith “I think the $436,000 that's coming in off those Secure Rural Schools will take care of that extra money we wanted to bring to the school district. And no, it may not be here next year, but the answer is not to raise the mill rate.”

May 20, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 21, 2026

Kristin Smith “we cannot continue to solve our problems by taxing the property holders of the community. We cannot. That is not sustainable. That may be sustainable in the definition of where the money is going to come from, but it's not sustainable for the people who are carrying the burden.”

May 20, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 21, 2026

Kasey Kinsman “if you can prove that you're a resident, this is where you live, you live in Cordova year-round, okay, your mill rate— you get a discount on your mill rate.”

May 20, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 21, 2026

Kristin Smith “is a real property tax, a personal property tax, because there are lots of people who fish here who don't live here who have their boats here. Those are not taxed.”

May 20, 2026 City Council Regular Meeting · May 21, 2026

Beth Weldon “hotel bed packs, they get $1,267,000-ish. Marine passenger fee, they get $614,000-ish.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Christine Woll “I think in our current budget climate this year, and certainly next year, we have to decide what we're not going to do anymore as a community. Those are the choices before us, and I don't want to do things not well.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Neil Steininger “You spoke to replace— potentially replacing some of this funding with marine passenger fees. Is it your intention to put forward another amendment later to our marine passenger fee budget, or is that a next year's marine passenger fee budget concept?”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Christine Woll “I know we will still get independent travelers here because we have a cruise industry that brings them to us. I know it won't be as many.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Christine Woll “I will be making a case on June 8th that we, um, do something different on the revenue side so that we can reverse all of the hard decisions that we're going to make tonight.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Christine Woll “I believe strongly in what Travel Juno does. Um, I think making a cut of this size will be detrimental to our community. We know that marketing is always the first thing that gets cut, and then you see the results later down the line.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Beth Weldon “I'm trying to do the job that we set ourselves up in the fall, so I'm looking for $2 million, so some of my cuts will seem harsh, but I'm also looking at them in service reductions. I'm not looking for them from the manager's budget.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Christine Woll “if, if we were to not take action on any of the pending list items, and move forward the sales tax ordinances, we'd be looking at an operating deficit of $8 million.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Greg Smith “I'm looking at their balances, you know, at one point It felt not long ago their fund balance was $30, $40-something million. Amended FY26 is potentially $64 million with a potential increase to the fund balance of $6,800,000.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Ms. Wendell (Clerk, City and Borough of Juneau)

“Amendment passes 5 ayes, 4 nays.”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Christine Woll “we have been— the assembly has been conservative for many years, so we have had savings that can help us weather the storm, but I'm not sure we have begun to actually truly understand what the size of that deficit is. I mean, um, we mean the community. When we put together the list that that, um, we heard so much about from the community, that was a list of how to make up a $2 million deficit. We are looking at an $8 million deficit”

May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026

Haley Paine “Motion passes 4-0.”

Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of Wednesday, May 20, 2026 · May 20, 2026

Chairman Court (Chairman, Planning and Zoning Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission)

“case number 26-017, request a rezone of a portion of Yuzinki Track C, Block 1, remainder of USS 4871 from R-1 single-family residential to District 2 PL public use lands district.”

Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of Wednesday, May 20, 2026 · May 20, 2026

Chairman Court (Chairman, Planning and Zoning Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission)

“Case S26-016, requests a subdivision of USS 4871 Block 1 Track C, creating USS 4871 Block 1 Lot 2 Track C, and an extension of G Street, a 60-foot right-of-way.”

Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting of Wednesday, May 20, 2026 · May 20, 2026

Ryan Anderson “Director Pinon hit on it a bit with the budget and the cost of energy and how that just goes across the board, you know, to so many different things, because when the cost of energy picks up everything, the cost of everything goes up. And so working through that, I think, is going to be important for us”

20260522 Commissioner All-Staff- · May 22, 2026

Tyler Young “We can only rely on what the engineer's report has told us, and the engineer's report has said that there was going to be regrading. Okay. What happens after that is outside of the planning board.”

Platting Board Meeting - May 21, 2026 · May 21, 2026

“It seems like the design could be more conducive to the whole situation over there. Um, we've been involved with the homeowners association for years, and when we've had other things crop up that really affect that subdivision, which happens to be the largest subdivision in the entire state”

Platting Board Meeting - May 21, 2026 · May 21, 2026

Tyler Young “I move to approve the preliminary plat of Settler's Bay Unit 11, Section 3, Township 16 North, Range 02 West, Seward, Meridian, Alaska, contingent on staff recommendations. 1 Through 10.”

Platting Board Meeting - May 21, 2026 · May 21, 2026

Michelle Traxler “The request is to create 4 lots from Track 30, ASLS number 79-109 Bartlett Hills, plat number 87-29, to be known as Trax 30A, 30B, 30C, and 30D, containing 257.7 acres plus or minus. The petitioner is requesting a variance from 43.20.140, physical access.”

Platting Board Meeting - May 21, 2026 · May 22, 2026

Michael Liebing “I move to approve the preliminary plat of ASLS 87-29 Bartlett Hill RSB Track 30, Section 02, uh, and 11, Township 24 North, Range 04 West Seward Meridian, contingent upon, uh, the staff recommendations and with the variance approval.”

Platting Board Meeting - May 21, 2026 · May 22, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “do you have a sense, you know, based on sort of this data set that we're building, what the, what the true demand is for shelter at this point? And I think looking at, looking at our utilization rates, I mean, and to your point that 93% is full or greater, it does make me wonder, you know, where, where should we be looking? What should our capacity, what should our real capacity be?”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

Thea Agnew-Bemben “we would love to have another 100 beds at East 56, you know, kind of starting tomorrow would be wonderful. We could fill those beds and that would be great. If we had another 50 beds at Linda's Place for November-December, so just carrying on with kind of our surge plan, as well as adding 20 beds at our non-congregate site.”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

Justin Mills “somebody should be given a chance to get off the street. When people are cycling and they're not using the resources, it's a waste of time to do that. And these people I see in and out of the places. Why isn't the given a chance somebody that hasn't been there.”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

Thea Agnew-Bemben “we have 300 year-round beds, 100 at 5656, 100 at Linda's Place, 100 at the Alex. The Alex is non-profit congregate, the other two are congregate. And then between November 2025 and April 2026, we went up to 450 beds with our surge beds.”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

Thea Agnew-Bemben “I think as we move into really this, the months before budget season, I think we also need to have a conversation about what it looks like to reduce this system. And I'm not saying that because I personally want that to happen. I'm saying it because this is an area that has grown very significantly in the last 5 years in our budget.”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

Suzanne LaFrance “This year's Point-in-Time Count shows a 28% reduction in unsheltered homelessness compared to last year. That is fewer people sleeping in our public spaces, fewer people susceptible to our cold winter nights, and fewer people unsafe in our community.”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

Thea Agnew-Bemben “Right now, our shelter providers are reporting, like, this was just a couple weekends ago, 85 turnaways. Those are duplicated, so I think you could say if somebody tried our two congregate shelters, maybe 40 turnaways, but that's quite a lot in early May.”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

Thea Agnew-Bemben “We served 2,704 unique clients in emergency shelter. And for an individual, the median length of stay was between 8 and 50 days. For families, it's between 30 and 41 days. Our shelters were 95% occupied for those who served individuals and 87% occupied for those who serve families.”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

Suzanne LaFrance “This year, our shelter beds across the municipality were full at the time of the count. This highlights the need for these beds and the critical role they play in keeping a vulnerable population safe. But we still need more shelter beds.”

ANC Muni Assembly, Housing and Homelessness Committee · May 24, 2026

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