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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Luke Boland
“Wasilla Fishhook Main Street rehab. This PDA has been advancing, this one's certified, the funding request is over at Federal Highways for approval. They had some questions on the conditional right-of-way cert for this project, which we got resolved yesterday.”Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Kirk Miller
“Prince of Wales, Three Mile Creek improvements. We moved that one to March. That was— I have to look at my other list here. Was formerly in November, so there's quite a bit of delay on that. And the reason for that delay was funding complications on the FHWA grant end.”Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Luke Boland
“critical path is utilities on this. We're meeting weekly with the last remaining utility company to get that agreement in place. Also working on extension to floodplain permit that's going to be required for this, but utilities is looking at critical path.”Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Kirk Miller
“Gustavus Ferry Terminal generator replacement. We are waiting for a a design— a funding authorization from FHWA. For some reason, this has not been signed yet, but we're all ready to advertise. If we can get that authorization back from FHWA, that will hit July. If not, we're probably going to scoot that one into August.”Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Luke Boland
“KGB, this is a huge priority for the department, safety corridor improvements. We've got over 100 property acquisitions needed to deliver this also. And I think we're hitting every utility within the corridor. And so pushing for March and keep you updated as we advance on that.”Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Kirk Miller
“Ketchikan Airport seaplane ramp has a permit problem, but we're making progress. If we can resolve that Corps of Engineers permit, that's going to pop out in July. So we're all ready to go. Good chance that there could be an issue there, but we're not sure.”Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Kirk Miller
“Ketchikan-Saxman to Surf Street pavement rehabilitation, South Tongass. Big project here, major right-of-way effort ongoing right now. Definitely some risks for that December date there. There's some local issues as well, but I'm holding that as best as we can.”Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Tyler Young
“This is a very common occurrence. This is not out of the realm of ordinary measures. Usually these issues are handled at pre-design and engineering based entirely on what he said. They don't entirely know where everything is going to go.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Cayman Reynolds
“All 3 note potential issues with traffic due to Carmel Road being a rural road. One notes USPS does not deliver down the road. One notes that Starlight Subdivision will interfere with their planned private airstrip and concerns about trespassing on their existing dirt bike track and potential stormwater and drainage issues.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Chris Kerlin
“The proposed subdivision was approved with an internal cul-de-sac located further south. Pursuant to MSB 43-1545-G2D, proposed right-of-way easements may be moved up to 60 feet if approved by the Planning Officer. The proposed relocation is beyond 60 feet and will require Board approval.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Reggie Carney
“our job is strictly to make sure that we make sure that the application, the proposals meet the SCM, right? We don't control covenants, code restrictions, whether they're going to be there or not, HOAs, whether they're going to be there or not. Public concern is heard. We read the notes, we're up here reading them even as people come up here, and I just want people to know that the public know that we, we do hear it, but we make a judgment based off of does it meet the contractor manual, the construction manual, and something like this, though it's huge, we look at it and it does.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Michelle Traxler
“I have one comment about the roads. That is a road service area issue, not a planning board issue necessarily. So if you got problems with your road, you need to direct it to your local RSA.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Michelle Traxler
“we are on Primrose Point Phase 4. The request is to relocate an internal road in the last phase of Primrose Point MSP, Tract D, Primrose Point Phase 1, to be known as Primrose Point Phase 4, pursuant to Title 43.15.049. The proposed change will require board approval.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Tyler Young
“We sympathize, but we only have a certain amount of power as the government to tell people how to use their private property. Correct. And this meets code. This meets the proper code that has been put forth.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Tyler Young
“Condition number 4C, arrange pre-final and final inspections with DPW per CFM, the subdivision construction manual, and submit final report to platting per F1. They are going to have to work with DPW to figure out all of those issues before platting will sign off and final recommendation before any of these lots could be conveyed out. Um, the reason why we are not pushing towards a shared easement is because it's not just 2 lots that are affected.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Tyler Young
“Planning deals with Matsuburo Code Title 43, and that is subdivision regulations as set forth by the Matsuburo Assembly.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Reggie Carney
“at the end of the day, it meets all the requirements, and that's what we have to make a decision on.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Michelle Traxler
“No objections. Motion passes.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Steve Panone
“I obviously I'd like to do it in pre-design. We'd like to move forward with this, start getting things moving on this. We would, uh, um, obviously when, when we do schedule a pre-construction meeting, we would have, uh, design in hand when we showed up for that.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Tyler Young
“it's not easy to say where these shared— which lots are going to be sharing with which lots. And I do not want to lock anyone into having to figure that out right now when PD&E could come back and say, no, we— it's better for it to be over here. And then they have to come back in front of us to make all those changes.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Cayman Reynolds
“Each lot will still contain 10,000 square feet of usable septic and building area. The development will have a community water system.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Chris Kerlin
“PD&E suggests Lot 20 take access from Ashbrook Drive and Lots 16, 17, 18, and 19 share common accesses to Lone Cub Drive. Please note that per, per the 2022 Subdivision Construction Manual A043C, space shall be provided on these lots for turnaround so the vehicles will not have to back out onto minor collector streets. Staff notes the issue was unresolved at the time of this report.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Steve Kevan
“the concern from what I've read through public comment and what's been heard here today is the concern of where the driveways are, that it's— even though it's not affirmed on what we're approving, it still has to be approved on final plat and to borough code.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Michael Liebing
“I move to approve the preliminary plat of Primrose Point Phase 4, Section 4, Township 17 North, Range 01 West, Seward, Meridian, Alaska, contingent upon staff recommendations 1 through 7.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Steve Panone
“Based on the question about the shared driveway, we could easily put an easement for a hammerhead coming out of a garage or something like that. The problem is we don't know exactly where the houses are going to sit. So we could show, um, um, an easement of a shared driveway and put a requirement for a hammerhead outside any house that may be built on those, uh, 4 lots or 5 lots, uh, 16 through, um, 20.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Tyler Young
“We don't want to lock them into one area. When that changes would need to be made. And if changes are made, they would have to come back in front of the board. So we would prefer as the planning to leave this to pre-design engineering to take care of.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Cayman Reynolds
“the petitioner would also like to request a 10-year— a total of 10-year approval extension for the fact that there are 13 phases. Due to this also being quite a large subdivision, they wanted to present the entire thing at once and to also account for potential changes in economic conditions.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Chris Kerlin
“it would not be supported by PD&E as it is without, without the shared access, that they would proceed no further than the preconstruction meeting without doing that. So either you make them do it, or PD&E will at the preconstruction meeting, or nothing will ever happen.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Tyler Young
“they will have to approve, uh, get approval for driveway permits for each new lot contingent on PD&E's recommendations, likely involving shared access to limit the amount of driveways, and with that shared access, T-turnarounds to make sure that there is area for vehicles to turn around to be able to enter appropriately onto that classification of a road.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Cayman Reynolds
“There are no objections or concerns received from borough departments, outside agencies, or public at the time of the staff report. 3 Handouts contain objections by the public.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Tyler Young
“The minimum lot size on this, since it's a community sewer— I'm sorry, community water— is 20,000 square feet, about half an acre. There will be no lots smaller than that.”Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting July 16, 2026 · Jul 20, 2026
Anna Brawley
“none of us have done this in these seats, and any predecessor who has taken this up or anything, any action of this kind, are all gone now.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth... · Jul 17, 2026
Anna Brawley
“this is really an exploration and an understanding legally of what we could do, what we can do. If someone is coming to this work session seeking an answer to the question, what should the Assembly do in any given situation, you're not going to be satisfied today because that is not the discussion.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth... · Jul 17, 2026
Jeremiah Gardner
“this procedure to ensure a completely independent tribunal requires us to go to a state or a national organization, maybe international, AAA arbitration organization, and pull an arbitrator or a hearing officer from their ranks to come in. So it'd be an independent individual that we'd have to separately retain.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth... · Jul 17, 2026
Jeremiah Gardner
“at this point, this is where I think we've mentioned this in the last Assembly meeting, um, any investigation should really be limited to the prosecuting agency, which would be the Municipal Attorney's Office, uh, or anyone else charged with that investigation. And so at that point, members, you know, to get the accusation document together, of course there must be some suspicion of wrongdoing, right?”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth... · Jul 17, 2026
Anna Brawley
“The what you should do is ultimately in the political realm, it's in the personal decision realm, and it is something that everybody has to grapple with.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth... · Jul 17, 2026
Jeremiah Gardner
“that process should end once it becomes a formal accusation, because the Assembly should protect itself and preserve— really protect the universe of information it's looking at. Because at the ultimate end of this process, the Assembly will be called upon to review hearing officer's decision, and at that point you should only be looking at what's in the record there. So this is the point where we kind of drop the gate on Assemblymember investigation.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth... · Jul 17, 2026
Anna Brawley
“this work session is solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth in Anchorage Municipal Code Section 2.70.030. And of procedures available for the Assembly to express disapproval of a member's conduct.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth... · Jul 17, 2026
Erin Baldwin Day
“at what point in the proceeding— I mean, is it at would it be at the submission of accusation to the clerk that ex parte communication would start to be a factor in this process? Like, at what point should we start— would we start to be aware of ex parte communication? Since I'm sort of envisioning this as a quasi-judicial proceeding or similar to that.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession solely for discussion and clarification of the removal procedure set forth... · Jul 17, 2026
Bob Dole
“it increases the number of folks who can go from being a renter to that entry level, and that's kind of a strength of it without creating inflationary pressure on the top end. We think we increase the pool that can try to get into that housing and also increase the demand at— increase the opportunity at that level.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-89 and AO 2026-93, enacting Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 12.110... · Jul 17, 2026
Erin Baldwin Day
“unless there's an income element here, we're not actually targeting the folks that we want to target. We're creating access for folks who already have means to jump into a market.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-89 and AO 2026-93, enacting Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 12.110... · Jul 17, 2026
Erin Baldwin Day
“So why, why wouldn't you attach the incentive to the income of the buyer as opposed to the price of the home?”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-89 and AO 2026-93, enacting Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 12.110... · Jul 17, 2026
Ben Bowman
“by state statute, the empowering statute that allows the Assembly to to create this tax exemption gives any elected service area board or special tax area the option to, within 60 days of the effective date of the ordinance— we can completely choose when that effective date occurs to give them more time if necessary— they can opt out. They can pass a resolution and say, we're out of this. And it would be opting out only for the portion of the taxes which would go to fund their services.”Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re AO 2026-89 and AO 2026-93, enacting Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 12.110... · Jul 17, 2026
Nova Javier
“for the second round of voting, we do have a result, um, and they are as follows: Mr. Vizcocho, 4 votes, and then Mr. Brekke, 1 vote. So we have a majority vote for Mr. Vizcocho. Congratulations to Mr. Vizcocho.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 2 · Jul 17, 2026
Nova Javier
“I will honestly, faithfully and impartially discharge my duties as a member of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly, of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly, to the best of my ability. Congratulations.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 2 · Jul 17, 2026
Bo Whiteside
“I would like to nominate Mr. Mark Anthony Vizcocho, Mr. Alexander Sweeney, Mr. Caleb Callahan, and Mr. Shawn Brekke.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 2 · Jul 17, 2026
Nova Javier
“I will be in contact so that we can have an orientation. Thank you. Congratulations again.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 2 · Jul 17, 2026
Bo Whiteside
“You all bring great ideas, great strengths to the assembly. There's going to be several seats open here in just a few months. Please don't let this deter you from continuing to want to sit up here on the assembly.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 2 · Jul 17, 2026