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

Randy Trani “A 13-member committee of school and community. You can see the breakdown: 3 MSBSD nurses and Alaska State Nurse Association representative, Matsu Valley physician, Matsu Health Foundation rep, uh, uh, system principal, 3 principals, and, and 3 district office administrators. Um, the October 14 discussion kind of established, you know, what's, what's driving the need for this change. Um, nurses reported out what their lived experience is, and then they examined different health service delivery models.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

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Taryn Carpenter

“Every 2 hours, he needs someone who understands his body, his medical equipment, and the signs that something may not be right. Our school nurse provides that care.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

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Randy Trani “There's already 2 more meetings scheduled December 10th and January 4th. I know that one of the ideas that I've heard that made a lot of sense to me is that you want to have people working at their level of licensure that's at their peak level of licensure.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

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Randy Trani “We had our first regional nurse committee meeting, uh, just last week. Or was it this week? This week's been a long week. There was a lot of getting ready for that meeting on Monday.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

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Taryn Carpenter

“I'm here tonight to advocate for our school nurses, especially the nurse who cares for my son every single day.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

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David Zastrow “I also would like to probably find a way where we can look a little deeper into what we need to do to pay for this, but not make an additional burden on individual members of the community.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Brian Wildrick

“that's the language I think you could probably put in there for certain people, because it says, uh, that you're allowed to charge up to $2. So if you wanted to exempt people or make $1.50 instead of $2”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“If they're out the road, they're probably only attached to one tower, so the coordinates might, might not be as exact as you need.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Brian Wildrick

“reinstating the surcharge will absolutely help the sustainability of this project for the long term. Which helps the community and the first responders get the best quality care that they can get when there's an emergency.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“we haven't had any discussions with the city, and I don't think all the information is clear in the ordinance of what you're taking on. So we just wanted to provide some information”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“we're in the middle of an accounting and mapping migration that won't be done until the middle of next year. So I don't even know if we can actually provide you the data to map a phone number to an address or a cell phone to a location at this time.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Brian Wildrick

“Valdez is the only place in Alaska that has it now, but I spoke with their dispatchers and the dispatch supervisor, and they like it a lot.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“hopefully we can, um, be aware of those that aren't in the same financial position that might be overwhelmed by it, and to ensure that your timeline expectations with planning the project take into consideration the dependency on us to provide you the data.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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David Zastrow “it was good to hear Jeremiah Beckett come up and, and illuminate us on a few items. Again, as, uh, um, Council Member Ranney just mentioned, um, having to do with, you know, Lifeline customers, multiple phones in a single resident.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“We have a couple dozen Lifeline customers in Cordova. They pay $1 a month, and sometimes they can't even make that payment. So adding a $2 surcharge to Lifeline customers would triple their costs. So we highly recommend excluding Lifeline customers.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“this means you can only collect the tax from Cordova Telecom, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley. All the other phones— AT&T, FirstNet, Verizon, GCI— you cannot collect the tax from because they are not in the local exchange. So collectively, between CTC, Cordova Wireless, and Copper Valley, there's roughly 2,570 local lines, which equates to, if you did the maximum tax, $62,000 a year.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“A family could have 5 or more phones and you're essentially adding a tax that might be the equivalent of one of their online other services that they use. So you might want to consider a per-household limit.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Tina Graham

“I would second that motion.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Stephanie (Director)

“And honestly, I think it's a great testing the waters situation for potential future projects, really.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Katie

“That he had heard from some of the folks in that area that maybe it was a little bit off-putting, but we haven't heard from any of them specifically.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Tina Graham

“Well, and then it won't feel so long between our October meeting and our February meeting if we meet in November.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Tina Graham

“it's very interesting to me that we got so many, um, public comments because I believe the comment went like this, hey, is there anything out this Stampede Way where there's some borough land out there? Is there anywhere out there that might be of good use?”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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“Yeah, and I'd be curious if they had any previous agreement to clean up, you know, what's already been deposited there.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Tina Graham

“That is momentous. This is your first official—. I think it is. We're like real committee people now, you guys.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Tina Graham

“I don't know where in the borough that's close to Healy that we could have a shooting range that won't be heard by somebody.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Katie

“as evidenced by a lot of the public comments we got, if we're putting in something new, people may not just be willing to approach it the same way that people in Anderson have been.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Tina Graham

“I'll just go ahead on to the Healy area shooting range work session. We had 4 people here in person.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Patrice Levine

“And it will be, uh, November 11th is their meeting, which— and it will be.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Amber Renshaw “somebody who's familiar with the Anderson shooting range said basically the same thing like what you heard from the Cantwell, is that there's residents close by, and once they're hearing shooting after a certain hour, they call a neighbor, what's going on? If none of them are aware of it, they go down together and they address the issue.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Tina Graham

“The Abigail Sawyer ski trail, a Nordic ski trail, exactly. Yeah, all of that stuff.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Tina Graham

“one of the things that was commented was that the Cantwell shooting range is pretty close to residents.”

Denali Borough: October 21, 2006 Community & Outdoor Recreation Committee Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Kevin Johnson “The Second Street project is almost fully funded in the STIP. The Whitefish project is close to fully funded, but quite a gap between actual project costs and what they're showing in the '27 budget. So our conversations with state staff has been the state is very willing to fund those projects.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Aaron Hansen “the intent was to have a meeting prior to budget so that we knew what we were doing. Let me create an MOU, create whatever avenue to have the discussion, and, and not find ourselves in April... being told, yeah, they failed on that side of things.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Wendy Ranney “I would like to see some more work done on the ordinance before it's put in place, but I am in support of repealing this. I just think there needs to be some verbiage added to cover it so that we're not adding a hardship tax onto folks that we're trying to upgrade emergency response time.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Wendy Ranney “I move to approve Ordinance 10-26-30, an ordinance of City Council, City of Cordova, Alaska, to reinstate the previously repealed E911 surcharge for purposes of purchasing, equipping, and maintaining an E911/NG911 system to meet the needs of Cordova Department of Public Safety and modernize the first responder response in Cordova.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“you're only taxing the local exchange. You're basically taxing people to shop local, just to be clear. It is a local shopping tax, essentially, on communications.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Sam Greenwood “If you come up with questions or concerns, it would be helpful to have them before the meeting. I'd like to be productive at the meeting and be able to, you know, to wrap it up as— because we really are— we're getting there quickly to needing to be—.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“Think of a family with multiple high school students, and they all have a cell phone. A family that could have 5 or more phones, and you're essentially adding a tax that might be the equivalent of one of their online other services that they use. So you might want to consider a per-household limit.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Brian Wildrick

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“we really support the initiative. We think it's overdue for Cordova. We just wanted to make sure you had that information as you're defining the ordinance.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Becker

“we haven't been engaged about this technology or service By default, we are required to support E911, but we're in the middle of an accounting and mapping migration that won't be done until the middle of next year. So I don't even know if we can actually provide you the data to map a phone number to an address or a cell phone to a location at this time.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Kristin Smith “I do think what's super helpful about this table and having these numbers is the fact that we are quantifying, like, finally actually have a number on what is the service that the city provides and how do we pay for it.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Aaron Hansen “we know that we have things end of life like boilers and proactively trying to replace those versus reactive, which is the situation that we're in. And I understand that we're not in a financial position to make those”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Kevin Johnson “the Alaska Department of Transportation, uh, SIP— that's their Transportation Improvement Program— uh, list is— draft is open for public comment currently. Uh, the city specifically has two projects that is on that list., and it is crucial that, um, everybody comments on those projects.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Kristin Smith “if they start in November, this— that's '26, and, and we're talking about a different fee schedule potentially for '27. So for '26, we don't have the staff.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Kevin Johnson “Not a public comment, I just need to tack on to my earlier comments. I left off a key piece of information. Uh, the staff comments are due by the 29th, which is next Thursday.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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Aaron Hansen “I feel that we, we establish, right, the priority, and the school is the priority by design. So as like everything else that we're dealing with, it's, it's tiered.”

Cordova: October 21 Council work session, public hearing, and regular meeting · Oct 21, 2026

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