Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Nano Brooks
“is Mendenhall Mall Road private or public?”Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026
Nano Brooks
“in the earlier meeting, $500 was mentioned. So if our maximum is $500, it should be up to $500”Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026
Alicia Hughes-Skandijs
“It would be a policy decision if we decide, because the e-motos are— is where we want to put our focus, if we table the other one. It is kind of getting out of the e-bike game entirely.”Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026
Nano Brooks
“when mentioning the, uh, permissible use areas of Montana Creek and Area 35, the amendment would be to add, and all other aerial areas where similar use is permitted.”Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026
Alicia Hughes-Skandijs
“I would move that we direct staff to postpone the PRAC ordinance 2020— or sorry, not PRAC, uh, ordinance 2026-41 to align with when this will be heard so they can both be heard at the same time.”Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026
Neil Steininger
“kind of the end result here is e-motos would be treated the same as dirt bikes. Currently are treated. Is that accurate to say”Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026
Nano Brooks
“It was expressed that, you know, most of these vehicles don't have VIN numbers.”Juneau: September 21, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Sep 21, 2026
Beth Weldon
“if we get money for this, it would be one-time money, and we have a structural deficit in our budget, and we have $7-8 million that we have to come up with.”Juneau: August 17, 2026 Regular Assembly Meeting · Aug 17, 2026
Wall
“The city does get sued every day. That cannot be how we make our decisions.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Steininger
“we still need both parties to show up for our negotiations over the use of the marine passenger funds. And I'm not saying we're bowing in to the industry. I'm saying I think we have a lot to gain by continuing with collaboration.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“there are lots of people in this community paying attention to the case law. We will see an initiative from our citizens.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Ella Adkison
“now we have the opportunity to make this very popular public good ironclad, and we're hesitating. And that seems to me like we were just wanting to kick the can down the road, like we're not wanting to make this official.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“I think we are losing it. We have data that shows that, and this is one middle of the road thing that we can do to help keep that on board.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Ella Adkison
“for the many years that I've been on the Assembly, I have seen overwhelming support for the 5-ship limit. It's consistently a thing that scores very highly in all of our surveys.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Zen Kelly
“I am going to move to amend the mayor's motion to send this to public hearing and then back to committee.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“this is about community trust. You all might trust the industry, the, the larger public does not.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Wall
“there is nothing in the VITIF's charge that has anything to do with a 5-ship limit and whether it should be legislated. It has nothing to do with their work.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Greg Smith
“I guess I'm kind of like don't kick the dog if it's not misbehaving.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Kester
“I don't want to waste a lot of money on attorney work if we haven't done the homework ourselves before we jump into a decision.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Wall
“when it comes to exerting local control as a local government, this is absolutely a policy decision that the Assembly needs to make. It is not going to come from an advisory body that is set up.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Wall
“if after the case law that we have in Maine, we can't take what what I wanted to keep as kind of like the light version of like, let's just say 5 ships and put that in ordinance. We can't do that, then I question whether the city will ever be ready.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Kester
“And so I think it's prudent to wait.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Wall
“if that is a reason to make you put everything in your back pocket, as a member of the public, as someone who doesn't sit on a dais, I would absolutely not have trust of that industry, and I would absolutely want my local elected leaders to do something about it.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Alicia Hughes-Skandijs
“knowing that it has that strong community support for the 5-ship limit, And then by putting it in ordinance, really formalizing that local control, um, is what this is about for me.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“They've had an MOU in place for 2 years. They knew there'd be about 2 years of grace period for their MOU, which had visitor caps. And what I heard was their— the initial schedule has 23 days over their caps.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“Of course, we, we suggested the language, but it didn't already get sent for public hearing. It just got sent to the committee. Is that correct?”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Greg Smith
“this has been seemingly a collaborative process. We've gotten, you know, agreement with the main lines. I guess, I guess I'm just kind of curious again, like, why seemingly we are... why, I guess, why legislate and maybe kind of I guess I don't want to say sour the relationship.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Nano Brooks
“if at any point in the future our, you know, dock or harbor infrastructure wasn't able to support what we currently do, could they then use this enshrined litigation as a means to being like, no, you're going to take our ships even though you don't have the capacities or facilities to.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Alicia Hughes-Skandijs
“I would move that we forward the Cal Forward Ordinance, uh, 2026-39 to the full assembly, and I ask unanimous consent.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“I heard some people say it was permanent. It's not permanent. It's an ordinance. It can be changed. It doesn't have any impact on Gold Belt's development or prevent that development.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Ella Adkison
“We have specifically not taken up whether to put our current limits into code or not because that is really an assembly policy decision.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“This legislation would require only one party, um, to, to make a decision.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“The community does not trust that the industry does not want to grow beyond 5 ships. They hear some of the same things I do.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“my intent was not to relitigate the 5-ship limit. We have heard a lot of, I think, misinformation about what this ordinance would do. It wouldn't change anything about the current policy that we have in place that is well supported. Um, so same boundaries, same number of ships.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“the answer I've had to give them always is because of the law. Because when, um, if we were to limit how much tourism we had in our community, um, we would get sued and we would lose. Um, a year ago we had the Bar Harbor decision.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Christine Woll
“I think that question is really about who gets to set the limits on tourism in our community. Is it Juneau? Or is it the industry?”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Alicia Hughes-Skandijs
“But I think for a government to do an ordinance, if that sours a relationship, then I would question personally how good the relationship was in the first place.”Juneau: August 31, 2026 Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession · Aug 31, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“We do not have active tracking of who's evacuated or who hasn't evacuated. And again, this is one of the primary reasons that we're asking folks to self-evacuate before the event.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“We're talking about tens of thousands of cubic feet of water per second.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Loren Joseph
“We have trailer supplies on site for 50. The gym probably maxes out around 75 people. We could get a little bit more if needed.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Travis Eckhoff
“we will close the back loop bridge at 8:30 PM tonight, and we will be closing the pedestrian paths on the Brotherhood Bridge around 5:15, or when the lake gauge hits 10 feet.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“We're tremendously confident in the HESCO barriers. We're tremendously confident in the pumps that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has provided. None of this is worth betting your life. Please evacuate.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“we anticipate there's an average of around 2.5 folks per dwelling. We have around 2,000 residences in the area, so that would come out to around 5,000 folks.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Ken Murphy
“Slow is fast. Slow down. Take your time. If you're evacuating, thank you.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Sabrina Grubitz
“we've all come to the same conclusion that evacuation is the best way to keep yourself safe. So we do ask you to heed those suggestions and those requests from Unified Command in this response.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Brian O'Shaughnessy
“in the event of a HESCO failure, folks would only have minutes before the area could be inundated. This could potentially be a truly massive amount of water coming through... folks would not have time to evacuate. That flash flood warning product would contain the instructions of shelter in place.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Denise Koch
“We know that there are potentially some encampments in that area that keep popping up. There are some knife slits to the face of the HESCO barriers.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026
Ginu Nidolny
“The best thing this community and the citizens can do to maintain their safety is to evacuate as the city has recommended. Again, that's an evacuation request by 3— no later than 3 PM today.”Juneau: August 12, 2026 Unified Command GLOF Press Briefing · Aug 12, 2026