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0:19

Bruce Schulte

“I think those are solvable. I think that some amount of trees either within Chugach property or on Mr. Stevens' property could solve that problem, and I would encourage Chugach to get with Mr. Stevens and get some resolution of that, something that both sides can live with, because other than that, I think this is a greatly improved project from the community perspective.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - August 10, 2026 - 2026-08-10 18:30:00 ·

0:18

Chelsea Bailey

“Uh, so because formal— informal discussions with the project team have failed to yield alternative designs and solutions, we're relying on the commission tonight to establish binding conditions that protect our property.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - August 10, 2026 - 2026-08-10 18:30:00 ·

0:25

Janice Zilko

“Under this new site plan, two 15-foot-tall transformers would be located immediately adjacent to their property and less than 25 feet from their house. The transformers and razor wire would extend above the screening fence.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - August 10, 2026 - 2026-08-10 18:30:00 ·

0:32

Connor Eshelman

“I want to thank, uh, the Baileys for being so thorough. We did meet with them and have every intention of re— uh, taking a closer look at sections, uh, near their area once we have updated survey information.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - August 10, 2026 - 2026-08-10 18:30:00 ·

0:24

Jamie Lopez

“4 years, 10,000 hours of field outreach experience, 3 years past, I've been doing it since exiting homelessness, spent all of my savings. And more or less what I've been watching play out is nobody will pay to do this sort of job. They're afraid of liability.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 ·

0:32

Jamie Lopez

“basically yesterday, um, there was a report that was pushed through the assembly, by the mayor with little fanfare. And it was a report on AO 2025-74-S2, the anti-camping ban ordinance. And so more or less, um, it was done pretty quickly. It was done based on this dashboard, which is 123 arrests, 962 voluntarily complied, and 72 accepted services.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 ·

0:33

Jamie Lopez

“When you attach outreach services to law enforcement, there are a number of people that are not going to accept it for the simple reason it's a barrier. They've been traumatized and they just won't take it. And then some do take it and then literally they're right back out on the street in short order.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 ·

0:23

Jamie Lopez

“what they did not say on APD was that the 72 is a subset of 962.. And so if you do the math and you include the arrests and the subjects that voluntarily complied, total is 1,085. 72 Divided by 1,085, 6.6% acceptance rate of services. If you do the 72 divided by 962 exclusively, it's 7.5%. But it's effectively a failure.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 ·

0:33
Thea Agnew-Bemben“when we're doing enforcement That is not like, that is not the first, that's not the first step in the process. The first step in the process is outreach and outreach is multidisciplinary outreach team. There's only one officer on that. Everybody else is a community partner from all different agencies, including the coalition and the health department.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 ·

0:24
Thea Agnew-Bemben“the way that we do find people, is we have online reports which the community is giving us all the time, um, because I get emails every time somebody else reports. And so we're sharing that information every morning at 9:00 AM with that big outreach team.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 ·

0:46
Thea Agnew-Bemben“At the Housing and Homelessness Committee meeting on the 19th, we'll be doing a kind of cross-department presentation around unsheltered homelessness and the work that municipality has been doing to address camping. So you'll see that was on the— there was an assembly information memo on this last meeting, but we'll actually be presenting that on the 19th.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 ·

0:41

Jamie Lopez

“there's updated data in the presentation that was part of the assembly informational memorandum that was on the agenda, and that's what's going to be presented on the 19th... so yeah, it's this slide deck that was uploaded on Friday to OnBase, and, uh, 72 accepted services out of 890. Basically subtract the 72 from 962, and then I get 7.5 acceptance rate.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting August 2026 ·

0:09
Melissa Skarbek“Those are some really pretty tough initiatives. So I'm glad to hear that we're so active. That's pretty wonderful, actually.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

0:36

Kristi Traver

“how do we cut it down? A reasonable time, because I know I'm not going to do an hour-long survey. I don't expect anybody else to be there. So anyways, it is draft form, but once we get that feedback, have talked to the city, um, we'll bring that survey to the entire Commission before we launch it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

0:19

Kristi Traver

“I think in terms of follow-up, it's just Beth and Celeste, once you've had a chance, if you can send some feedback. If you are interested in attending the meeting with Emily Bogart tomorrow, let me get the time on it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

0:07

Beth Fleischer

“I was just gonna say that your survey was amazing. I just—. It was a lot. It's a lot to digest, and I haven't gotten there.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

0:16

Kristi Traver

“Frankie then connected us with Emily Bokar, who's an innovation strategist with the Municipalities Initiative or I-Team. That meeting, just because of people's schedules, has not happened, but it is scheduled for tomorrow morning.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

0:44

Kristi Traver

“We made the determination that we wanted to get community feedback from women in the municipality about what were their major concerns, what would they want this commission to be focused on addressing through policy recommendations to the municipality. So we are in the process of developing that. There is a draft survey that was sent to the other 2 committee members, that's Beth and Celeste.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

1:10

Kristi Traver

“the idea is do the survey, gather some input, then do some listening sessions with targeted groups of individuals., in the muni, different demographics, to get a little bit more in-depth feedback. Um, during the last 2 months, while we were kind of on a little break, Ari connected us with Frankie Dahl, who's the outreach coordinator for the Community Safety and Development Division of the Health Department. So just upstairs here to talk about how we could be working together with them. They have requirements or have wanted to do more in engaging the community, and them participating with our survey and our listening groups would really be beneficial to them.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

0:07

Beth Fleischer

“I was like, gosh, we don't want this many questions. And I read them all. I'm like, yeah, we do. Uh, so I hear you. There were more.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

0:41

Kristi Traver

“So more of this is coordinating with the city's resources, so we're not having to do all of it ourselves or, you know, fundraise for resources to do it. And so that's the intent of this meeting. My interest is on once we have data, uh, they have tools that can do some really in-depth analysis that would help us develop good recommendations, um, based on that data. And then we can move forward into more strategic planning.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 8/6/26 ·

0:21
Pat Redmond“we have to have— we need to have public input, public hearing. And what information do we want to give to them? Do we want to provide that for them?”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission ·

0:15
Pat Redmond“The motion's been made, and is there a second? I mean, and yeah, and I will second. Second the amendment, and the amendment's friendly amendment. Is there any objection to that motion? And of course, there's the three— there is no objection.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission ·

0:41
Pat Redmond“the mayor, you can't increase the mayor's salary during the term of the office, so that doesn't work.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission ·

0:36
Pat Redmond“maybe we want to have a public hearing when we're considering the percentage of increase that we want. We can put that before them and hear what people have to say.”

Anchorage Assembly: Salaries and Emoluments Commission ·

0:04
Susanne Fleek-Green“But it's been great that Jay Baer is really helpful and supportive.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:27
Anna Brawley“is there any known kind of litigation challenging any of this?”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:20
Susanne Fleek-Green“As we're tracking these regulations, that we will fully engage with our congressional delegation.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:19
Susanne Fleek-Green“The Senate language, and this is in the report, not the bill itself, but the Senate language instructs the Department of War to more sort of study, evaluate.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:30
Susanne Fleek-Green“The House passed its NDAA. The Senate has not. It's stuck right now. They have until the end of the year to pass it. So once the Senate passes its bill and they appoint conferees, we definitely will be engaging again with our delegation about the best approach to talk to the bill conferees to hopefully get the House version of that report language for the land transfer.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:33
Anna Brawley“if you're, you have a challenging building environment, then it's, it could seem like punishing a municipality that isn't, you know, isn't doing enough”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:25
Susanne Fleek-Green“They are supportive of the transfer, so I don't think we will see delay there. It just— it helps to move it if Congress directs them to do something. So I can't— I don't anticipate that there would be a lot of delay. And given the project timeline as it is now, I think it will all work out fine. But we are still hoping for the House language.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:40
Susanne Fleek-Green“So it's about a 50-acre piece of land. There are some specifics to be worked out about the exact conditions of the transfer, but that's something we've been working on with Brownstein and our lobbyists, as well as with the offices of congressional delegation, and should have more updates on that soon.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:26

Nolan Cloutier

“if it does go with the Senate one, is that—. Are we anticipating, I guess, delays because there would be potentially studies or something, I guess?”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:18
Anna Brawley“what risk does Anchorage have in particular because of our challenging building? You know, are we going to get punished for trying but not seeing the volume that we would see in Columbus, Ohio, or in a city in Texas, or things like that?”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:53

Nolan Cloutier

“in the NDAA, both the Senate and the House version, the National Defense Authorization Act, that we have language in both bills that would convey land at the landfill, at the Anchorage landfill that's adjacent to landfill that we've actually been leasing from, um, Jaybear for a long time, that would be conveyed to the Municipality of Anchorage for the purposes of ultimately hosting a waste-to-energy plant.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:21
Susanne Fleek-Green“connecting with American Planning Association, National League of Cities, and these other organizations that are tracking. I know they have a lot of good resources too”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:27
Susanne Fleek-Green“It's gentler language, whereas the House language really is what we had worked on that says you will— we are given giving both Department of War as well as Department of the Interior to access that 49 acres and transfer it to the Municipality of Anchorage. So it's much more direct in terms of what we want them to do.”

Anchorage Assembly: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:35
Daniel Volland“we are at this point are torturing this with these amendments, and I don't think that we're necessarily going to get to a factual basis that we're all, we're all saying, hey, look, these, this accusation, this list of accusations has been vetted, it's in context, it actually pertains to the section of code that we're trying to use.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

0:55
Daniel Volland“the problem is I don't— I no longer believe the accusation document knowing what I know now. I think it is flawed. I think the accusation document puts forward campaign activity which is totally separate from removal code to begin with.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

0:11
Anna Brawley“My name is Barbara Hood. I'm a resident of Stuck Again. We're the Bashir neighborhood.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

0:02
Daniel Volland“I'd like to move for immediate reconsideration.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

0:19
Daniel Volland“I'm representing the Board of Supervisors of the Glen Alps Road Service Area, or GARSA. We manage the roads that go to the 2 busiest trailheads at Chugach State Park, Glen Alps and the Rabbit Lake Sunnyside Flattop. We support the proposed ordinance and the creation of a CASA advisory board.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

1:03
Daniel Volland“you might want to consider including as a voting member of the advisory board a board member of one of the road service areas that provide access to the park, given their familiarity with road conditions.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

0:32
Daniel Volland“I think there are, there are recommendations that we can put in, in place that will help ensure that, as Member Baldwin-Day described, the purpose of assembly travel, that that is being met.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

0:36
Daniel Volland“Think about the politicized process that we are setting precedent for. I as a member can just make any accusation I want, and if I have a majority as my team and we're going after a minority member minority used in the sense of political minority.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

0:22
Daniel Volland“the underlying conflict that this is going to surface will not go away until we resolve it. And so whether this thing exists or not, that is what we're going to have to deal with.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

0:31
Daniel Volland“On a vote of 12 to 0, this item is now continued to the meeting of October 6th, and again, intent to schedule a work session, uh, between now and then.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - August 4, 2026 ·

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