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0:48
Thea Agnew-Bemben“I feel like we're much better set up this year thanks to accepting the state money and the Health Department did some really good budgeting and planning to add beds. We're going to be adding beds now from between now and the end of November to get us up to our full surge.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting October 2026 ·

0:14
Thea Agnew-Bemben“We also did last night get approval to accept the Rural Health Transformation Program funds. So that's just over $3 million between now and the end of June.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting October 2026 ·

0:49
Thea Agnew-Bemben“about 3 weeks ago, we did our first push focusing on Midtown because we knew there were a lot of people sleeping out in Midtown. The next one we went to Beens and downtown and Mountain View, and then in this next one that Lila was just talking about, we're going to focus on people who are kind of using the safety center every night.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting October 2026 ·

0:43
Thea Agnew-Bemben“We also got their approval for accepting some money from the state, which is allowing us to add our surge beds earlier this year than we did last year.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting October 2026 ·

0:36

Leila Taylor

“Linda's Place has met their surge capacity so they're at 150. They cannot go any higher there just because of the physical space of the building.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting November 2026 ·

0:24
Thea Agnew-Bemben“as part of their zoning for that building, they need a conditional use permit to operate as a shelter. So that is going before Planning and Zoning. That's the body that makes the decision on that. They will have a work session. Um, I think it's the first week of December, and then on the 14th of December is when the decision will be made.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting November 2026 ·

0:08
Thea Agnew-Bemben“if you want to participate in any of those sessions or provide public comment, um, just invite you to do so. So that's all I've got.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting November 2026 ·

0:30
Thea Agnew-Bemben“as I've mentioned before, there is a really simple process to make a complaint about an officer. People do all the time. You can do it anonymously, and 100% of those complaints are investigated, and about a third of them are sustained. So I really encourage you, if you have a, a valid complaint about an officer, please take the time to report it so that it can actually be investigated and acted on.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting November 2026 ·

1:17
Thea Agnew-Bemben“tonight at the assembly meeting, Um, some— there were some business owners that are right next to the shelter that put in public comment about the impacts of the shelter to their business, and the assembly members for the district where Linda's Place is located put that public comment into tonight's agenda as an assembly informational memorandum. So it's not something that will be acted on in any way, but I might— my assumption is that they put it there so that they could, um, just bring it up for some discussion on the dais and get it into the public record. So it's kind of a tricky situation where Um, you know, as a community, we certainly need those beds. Um, immediate neighbors have some concerns, so that's what's going to be figured out through this process. So I think it would be, um, it would be great for the commission to just consider if you wanted to put a resolution together on that topic.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting November 2026 ·

0:06
Thea Agnew-Bemben“That isn't the— apparently they did not want to do that. It's done through the website. No, it can't work that way. It can't work that way.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting November 2026 ·

0:09
Thea Agnew-Bemben“one of our shelters, which is Linda's Place, they operate out of a facility that they lease on East 5th Avenue.”

Anchorage Assembly: HHAND Commission Monthly Meeting November 2026 ·

0:20
Jamie Heinz“The vacancy provisions are actually in charter and not the code. And so it's, and it's, it's a puzzle every time. I, this, I was, I navigated the process back in 2023 and So the evening of the 16th will not work.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:16
Erin Baldwin Day“Just curious about how you envision sort of the redistribution of work going forward if/when Zac rotates off. Is—. Are you looking for folks to volunteer?”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:11
George Martinez“I would just put a vote in for December 18th, the Friday, for if there was a special meeting consistent with the way we've kind of held the Fridays in the past.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting ·

0:20
Erin Baldwin Day“I'm curious about the risk that you mentioned to— and the resiliency that you need to build into the system with this interconnection. Can you say a little bit more about what types of risks you foresee and what exactly it is you would be trying to mitigate?”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:08
Erin Baldwin Day“this would give the municipality the water for, I hate to say free, but sort of free.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:43
David Persinger“when that pipeline was developed and designed, constructed, the, the river was, was essentially dry or had very low water levels in it. And, and so there's some risk, you know, anytime you rewater a river that's not been watered for a long time and you have critical infrastructure in there.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:25
Erin Baldwin Day“the 37 million gallons that we would have rights to free and clear in 2055, Is that— how does that compare to our sort of annual water utilization right now, like in the present day?”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:05
David Persinger“That is correct. At that point, we would own those water rights and would not be compensating anyone for those.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:19
David Persinger“we were able to cap our compensation at $600,000 a year with an adjustment for inflation, and that's going to save us about $600,000 a year. Currently, we spend about $1 million to $1.2 million per year on paying for lost power production.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:13
David Persinger“ultimately, the big one is the way these agreements are set in October of 2055, the municipality would own 37 million gallons per day of water rights, stream clear, on Eklutna Lake going forward.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:25
David Persinger“what the proposal from the hydro owners to do is essentially connect into that that portal facility with an apparatus that allows water to flow into the river basically as a controlled release into that to provide a certain quantity of water over certain times.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:13
David Persinger“The assembly recently approved the framework of the agreements. We've got Joe from the Department of Law here. We've been working with the hydro owners to wordsmith the legal leads on the agreements.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:16
David Persinger“this gives us some financial compensation that will help with that. And then ultimately at the end of these agreements, AWW ends up owning, ultimately owning the water rights for that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:49
David Persinger“when I speak about risks, you know, those are in general large-scale, you know, something bad happens to the pipeline, for example. And so when we talk about building resiliency in that, that's really resiliency in water sources.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:29
David Persinger“that's significantly more. That's essentially what the capacity of the Eklutna Water Treatment Facility is designed That's the maximum it can push through that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee Meeting ·

0:15

Ricky Daniels

“I'm an owner of, uh, 2 lots on Annie Pearl Circle in the light industrial I-1 property. The 2 gentlemen that spoke previous to me, I echo their sentiments 100%.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:29

Noah Grosskreutz

“Now you're going to impact Lot 5, which is next to it, and lose 25 feet of that property for I-1 commercial use, which would be either storing equipment or yard space or constructing a building. So, again, I just got to say, the municipality of Anchorage needs more I-1, not less, and I strongly oppose, and I thank you for your time.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:14
Jared Gardner“I move in Case 2026-0133 to recommend to the Anchorage Assembly approval of the rezone of a parcel of land from CE-I1SL to CER-6.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:22

Richard Markiewicz

“The property was just commercial lot, you know, with the home, you know. And he, he want to make it residential property right now, you know. And if he make a residential, I'm affected 25 feet. I cannot do nothing.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:03

Ricky Daniels

“I'm a no as far as the rezoning.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:10

Garrett Moore

“I do agree with the committee's finding of the report and don't have any questions or comments, and I yield the rest of my time for rebuttal.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:20
Paul Hatcher“The existing single-family structure was constructed without permits. A permit would have— would not have been issued for this structure had one been applied for at the time of construction. This structure does not have legal nonconforming rights, and there is not a current enforcement violation regarding the use. This rezone will bring the structure into compliance with code. Variances are not an option for illegal uses.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:17

Noah Grosskreutz

“everybody can't operate out of the Anchorage Bowl, and there's so few I-1 lots. I think it's really important to maintain that, and once Once you start pulling a lot at a time, it's kind of a slippery slope.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:33

Noah Grosskreutz

“the municipality of Anchorage outside of the bowl is severely lacking in I-1 for business owners. So we need more I-1, not less I-1. And then on another note, The, the current zoning is a 20-foot setback from commercial to residential. Now, this particular subdivision has a 25-foot setback.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:25
Paul Hatcher“The department therefore requests the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend approval of this proposed rezone from CE-I1SL Light Industrial District with special limitations per AO 8749 to CER-6 Low Density Residential District and refer it to the assembly for adoption by ordinance.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:23
Paul Hatcher“The 2006 Chugiak State Park Comprehensive Plan update designates this parcel as residential less than 1 to 1 dwelling unit per acre. The CER-6 zoning district is an implementing zoning district for this land use designation.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:30

Richard Markiewicz

“for commercial property, and when border residential properties, have to be 25 feet buffer zone, you know. And now is— till now is a commercial to the commercial, so it's okay.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:16

Richard Markiewicz

“Yeah, the 25-foot, and I don't want to have a residential because there were lots of people moving in, and you only can be quiet. You have to be— you cannot bang with the hammer, with the angles all night.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:50
Jared Gardner“We heard some testimony from some of the neighbors this evening with concerns about implications from the rezone, and I think, um, those should be relatively limited for a couple of reasons.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:27

Ricky Daniels

“We have large vehicles that travel in and through and park out here. So to have a residential, it would not be safe for whomever is moving into that, and it would definitely not be safe for our drivers coming and going.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:23
Paul Hatcher“This is a rezone request initiated by the property owner to amend the zoning map for one parcel of land containing 1.33 acres from CE-I1SL Light Industrial District with special limitations per AO 87-49 to CER6 Low Density Residential District.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:21
Paul Hatcher“the structure was built in 2006. The property owner that's applying purchased this property, I believe, in 2019. If the commission does not approve the rezone, it still goes to the assembly.”

Anchorage Assembly: PlanningandZoningCommission: Live ·

0:40
Susanne Fleek-Green“I mean, Fairbanks closed their shelter. The Matsu will not open one. So we are the place where people come. I think Thea has talked about where we know people are getting put on airplanes from Belize, for example, and sent here because they know that we have shelter and that we have services like the opening crisis stabilization center.”

Anchorage Assembly: RESCHEDULED: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:21
Anna Brawley“it took basically the entire session convincing legislators, especially Anchorage legislators, one, that it's a statewide problem, and two, that their inaction was costing us locally.”

Anchorage Assembly: RESCHEDULED: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:45
Janice Park“I remember that the governor cut last year's budget for, um, for NAMI, for all the senior centers and mental health services across the state, and then when that happens, we shouldn't be surprised when people end up on the street.”

Anchorage Assembly: RESCHEDULED: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:10
Erin Baldwin Day“I think that that's a really important piece of the puzzle when we're talking about drugs, behavioral health, homelessness, all of those things.”

Anchorage Assembly: RESCHEDULED: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

0:16
Donald Handeland“as much as we can kind of convince legislators that this is a state problem that is currently located in Anchorage and that we need support and help from them to kind of alleviate that.”

Anchorage Assembly: RESCHEDULED: Legislative Committee Meeting ·

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