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

Bob Lynn “the amendment fails 3 to 3.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

Steve Giesbrecht “Is a utility fund, it does not have to pay it back, nor does it have to pay back with interest.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

Bob Lynn “I think I'm going to vote against it also. I would like to see the union, you know, vote on it, but they have two— they have the next two weeks here to do it, and then we can make a decision.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

Daniel Byrd

“if we move the training facility and it doesn't go back within a 12-month period, uh, the ISO ratings are going to increase, and that's going to cause everybody's insurance to go up 10% if we don't get this put back within a 12-month period.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

David Berg

“staff determined the price tag could be over $1 million for the new training tower and site improvements, as you'll see in Aaron's presentation later on. Less, less expensive options may exist, and we're certainly willing to look at those.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

Molly Tybur

“Without adequate wages to retain current staff, We simply don't know what service will be unavailable next week. Please delay this reading, respect the collective bargaining process, and work with us towards a fair agreement.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

Scott Newman “these guys are being forced to move, and I don't entirely agree with that. Um, So I think the big question for me is, yeah, why can't we take the money from the Harbor Fund, Enterprise Fund, and why do we have to pay it back?”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Oct 21, 2026

Sydney Scout “I believe this language creates extremely large loopholes that basically any violation of this policy, somebody could say, I didn't know I was doing it, oopsie. Um, and I don't want to create that option.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Kathleen McCardle

“I'm here to also support the continued investment and commitment to downtown Anchorage foot patrol as support for business and community safety that impacts all of the municipality. Our members have consistently cited public safety as a concern in our feedback surveys, with downtown at the epicenter. And this year's pilot foot patrol delivered both quantitative and qualitative results”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Suzanne LaFrance “But it's important that we codify our responsibility to protect the public's privacy to ensure that it has strength and permanence. The S version of the ordinance gives you a sensible and effective opportunity to do that tonight.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Radhika Krishna “When the foot patrol was happening consistently, business owners absolutely saw a difference. A fully staffed patrol that operates year-round would do even more to improve public safety downtown, and that's what we'd like to see. 2027 Will be a big year downtown. Town Square Park and Paratovich Park were closed for construction this year, but they'll reopen next year, um, as will the new downtown library branch and the Ship Creek to Coastal Trail connection.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Daniel Volland “I really think this one is an effort to strike that balance between public safety, have— letting law enforcement use a tool that can be valuable, but preventing an unlawful search and seizure, preventing an abuse of someone's constitutional right to privacy.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Suzanne LaFrance “Lastly, I urge assembly members to approve my administration's S version of AO 2026-108 tonight, which is co-sponsored by members Silvers and Gerker. Technologies like the Real Time Crime Center are powerful public safety tools.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Radhika Krishna “That's over 40 per day. More than 1,000 of those contacts ended in voluntary compliance. 152 People were transported to care, such as the Anchorage Safety Patrol. 40 People were connected to services.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Radhika Krishna “Thank you.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Anna Brawley “an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly repealing and replacing Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 3.02— sorry, 102. And amending AMC Section 7.15.040 to clarify existing restrictions on surveillance technology and establish new restrictions on automated license plate reader systems. I will note that there is an S version and an S1 version that makes substantial changes to that title.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Anna Brawley “On a vote of 11 to 1, um, this item is postponed to the next meeting.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Daniel Volland “In the, in the S version, the municipal agency has to have had knowingly, materially, and consistently violated this chapter, um, dot dot dot, or failed to take reasonable remedial action after identifying a knowing material violation of the chapter in order for the assembly to suspend use of technology.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day “I would like to move to amend the amendment and reinclude knowingly, materially, consistently, but with the or rather than the and. So it would read, a municipal agency has knowingly, materially, or consistently violated this chapter.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Kathleen McCardle

“Please fund APD as much as we need it to be, and this program, making it permanent ensuring coverage for every shift.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Daniel Volland “that is the requirement that no, no municipal agency may share surveillance data for a known purpose that would be prohibited if undertaken directly by the municipality under this chapter, unless required by law, judicial warrant, or court order.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Radhika Krishna “And then I know we're all looking forward to new crisis care stabilization that will open this year. The foot patrol is a really key part of connecting all these pieces on the ground.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Kathleen McCardle

“When public safety isn't available, it's our local businesses who must then invest in private security, hardening their infrastructure, survey their own surveillance equipment and services, and even relocating their services and amenities if they feel they must. Which ultimately is not sustainable.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Suzanne LaFrance “This ordinance will ensure data is shared only with state and federal agencies for criminal law enforcement purposes. This means APD can continue important joint efforts— the annual Operation Summer Heat drug crime suppression effort, the Chelsea Inn investigation, and human trafficking investigations like the major massage parlor bust last April. Other versions and amendments proposed tonight would effectively halt these joint operations, which are important to public safety and health, and get deadly drugs off our streets.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Anna Brawley “On the subject of the budget, tonight is the first of our two scheduled public hearings on the FY 2027 budget.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Anna Brawley “On a vote of 8 to 4, um, Amendment number 4 as amendment has passed.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Jared Gardner “we're legislators, we're not, we're not department staff, right? The mayor ran an election, the mayor got elected, she filled the executive branch with people to do the job that she wants to do the job. That's, that's not us, that's not our role.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Anna Brawley “Seeing and hearing no one, um, the first public hearing on AO 2026-123 is closed. And as again, a reminder to members, we do not need to take further action to postpone these items because they're already scheduled for public hearing”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Radhika Krishna “The foot patrol began this last April as a pilot project, which was funded by the TIPS program, which was part of the bed tax. And those funds are— there's only a small portion remaining, and they're due to be spent down very soon. In just its first 6 weeks, officers made over 1,800 contacts.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Anna Brawley “On a vote of 12 to 0, uh, that Brawley Amendment 2 passes unanimously.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live · Oct 20, 2026

Bill Gamble “ice is so desperately needed in the northern part of the valley, and this is really going to make, um, the Big Lake Lions Rec Center a year-round facility for our young athletes to get out there and spend time you know, doing healthy activities, time with their parents, interacting and just building relationships.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “And, and for the record, there is actually a potential CDS grant coming, uh, through Senator Murkowski's office. It's not even represented on here.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “you see it as individual legislation, accept and appropriates, like you're going to see tonight for the $2.5 million for the Big Lake Rec Center. You see it in pieces, but you never see it holistically.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “But if you look beyond that, at the top right there, it talks about $386 million. There's another $137 million in grants that are coming to the borough that are improving upon primarily infrastructure and some programs in different areas across the borough.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “This is a big deal for the community. This is going to allow us to do a lot that doesn't put the burden on property taxes, and that's significant.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Edna DeVries “Ordinance 26107, an ordinance accepting and appropriating $2 million Excuse me, $2.5 million from the Mat-Su Valley Health Foundation for installation of a refrigerated arena dasher board and plexiglass system at the Big Lake Lions Recreation Center, with accompanying Resolution 2697, a resolution approving the scope of work and budget for installation of a refrigerated ice sheet, dasher board, and plexiglass system at the Big Lake Lions Recreation Center.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “Pretty historic for the— I was going to say the borough— for the Alaska Railroad Corporation to receive a $240 or really about a $250 million grant. So a quarter of a billion dollars.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Bill Gamble “this is just going to go a long way to helping our kids, you know, north and west of the core area where there's already two ice rinks. And I'm just so appreciative of them realizing the investment that they're making in our kids by investing into this refrigeration unit.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Edna DeVries “is there any objection to the ordinance and resolution? I don't see any objections, so the legislation passes.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Stephanie Nowers “I think that, uh, what you can see is tremendous support. Each of these kids here in, uh, their uniform probably represents at least 5 others, or at least 5 other families of people that will get use out of this arena.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “In other words, outside of local tax dollars. That is a huge, significant investment.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “And that is to complete the Point MacKenzie rail extension project, which stalled out years ago and has been in the makings for a couple of decades.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Bill Gamble “the Susitna North Dam never got completed, the bridge across the inlet never completed, and for a long time PMRE wasn't getting completed. And now we are just moving forward and this is just going to steamroll.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “It's crazy, um, what we're seeing. And but again, it didn't just happen. Folks had to go out and do some real hard work, uh, to put this together.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “This does not include our non-federal match. This is, this is money that's coming in from outside of local revenues.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Mike Brown “my understanding is from the grant side, when they awarded us the $2.5 million for the Big Lake Rec Center, it was a very significant portion of what they were allocating the year. So it was not a small ask from them, and— but they see what we're trying to do there, and so I really appreciate their leadership team, their board.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 · Oct 20, 2026

Tom Wagner “I will be making a motion to add Eric Fleming to an executive session. Um, this needs to be talked about, but we can do it when we come out.”

10.20.2026 Whittier City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 20, 2026

Tom Wagner “So you had said when you first started giving your presentation, you said $150,000. I'm sorry, 850,000.”

10.20.2026 Whittier City Council Regular Meeting · Oct 20, 2026

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