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

Clips from City of KetchikanClear

Sarah Cook

“So the average for that is $3,370,000.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“We did over 1,200 more than we expected last year. Yeah, so that's one of the asks for Rural Health Transformation Funds next year is funds to expand our chairs and space”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“The 3-year average is still a negative because of the negative first 2 years. And then even with the negative, it shows the 3 years of annual capital investment. So $6 million in— a little over $6 million in fiscal year '24, almost $2 million in '25, and $1.7 million in '26.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“just better management of our budgets and our expenses and watching things a little bit more closely. Also filling full-time positions. We normally run at 35 travelers and we've kept it under like 12.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“we have been not doing great this fiscal year. We did really well, um, comparatively, so we actually had a positive, um, operation this year.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Kathy Bolling “What is tightly woven into this challenge, this argument between city and borough and people not wanting to pay a non-area-wide fee, is they want control of collection development, which is so offensively absurd to me.”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

Pat Bowling

“due to concerns over the recent increases in the borough's contribution, the borough assembly voted to terminate the current library services agreement effective December 31st, 2026. This gives the assembly time to consider their options, which are option 1, to renegotiate the library services agreement, uh, with a view to limit the amount that the borough is contracted to pay the non-area-wide library services. Option 2, put a measure on the October ballot for the borough to adopt area-wide library powers. If passed, the borough would provide and pay for library services for all residents of the borough.”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

Pat Bowling

“The assembly will next take up this issue at their July 20th meeting when they will hold a public hearing and work session. The citizens' petition to put on the fall ballot a measure for the borough to adopt area-wide library hours is going around.”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

Kathy Bolling “just last year, Assemblymember Arntzen made a move to, to pull all funding for the library, right? Reduce that library levy to zero and give notice to cancel the contract.”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

Kathy Bolling “If it just caps at, uh, $0.7 mil, that's already not enough.”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

Kathy Bolling “my understanding in response to my colleague's question is that that non-area-wide tax will be collected. The borough is still obligated. To fund the library. It just depends at what, at what level.”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

Kathy Bolling “the borough, whether or not it— the library's gonna be a borough department, may decide to only allow the budget to increase 3%, 4%, 5% a year. And if you're If your costs are 8-10% in 5 years, are you also thinking about the impact if your budget gets reduced 15-20% in 5 years?”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

Pat Bowling

“The whole borough discussion is the big unknown. Will the library become a department of the federal? If not, will the terminated borough-city library services agreement be renegotiated by the December 31st deadline? According to the old agreement, which remains in place until the end of December, the borough pays a percentage of the library's budget that is the same as the percentage of the borough population who lives outside the cities of Ketchikan and Sassafras.”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

Kathy Bolling “whether it stays as a city department or moves to the borough, you have a borough assembly who is not interested in spending very much money on the library. So it's going to be a battle no matter what.”

Ketchikan: Library Advisory Board Quarterly Meeting of July 8, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026

“I do know that they have been slowly moving vehicles out. And I will make sure that I make a note of, of that vehicle for you.”

Ketchikan: Port & Harbors Advisory Board June 2026 Meeting · Jun 9, 2026

“allowing temporary measures such as cones, stanchions, removable barriers during loading and unloading, provided they do not block access or vessel operations. Any operator could also consider using a short gangway ramp or boarding aid from their vessel to provide a more controlled transition for passengers.”

Ketchikan: Port & Harbors Advisory Board June 2026 Meeting · Jun 9, 2026

“Derelict cars in our limited parking For the harbor, I think that's, that's borough responsibility. And I think they're removing the derelict cars. We've had one there at that little lot next to Kate.”

Ketchikan: Port & Harbors Advisory Board June 2026 Meeting · Jun 9, 2026

“Tender Float 3 safety improvements, that also was brought up with the Aleutian Ballad.”

Ketchikan: Port & Harbors Advisory Board June 2026 Meeting · Jun 9, 2026

“the borough does have that enforcement where they can come and take, take vehicles away, but we also do that, and they're slowly working on that.”

Ketchikan: Port & Harbors Advisory Board June 2026 Meeting · Jun 9, 2026

Dick Coose “we had the big contract go out and looking for partners and it was going to be a floating dock off of both 1 and 2. And what it did is it gave them easier access to the dock and it also gave us more space on the dock because we don't have enough space down there for all the buses and vans right now.”

Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026

Abby Bradberry “I just don't think this is the right climate for the expansion of birth one.”

Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026

Jai Mahtani “I also think our cruise line partners, if they are going to bring in bigger ships, should pony up.”

Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026

Bob Svenson

“Has any thought gone into that process in regards to this type of expansion? I have certainly thought about that. I, I think the initial, my initial idea is to get, get the design and then once that's done, if we decide we want to go with that, then we can certainly reach out to, to the particular cruise lines to see if there's interest.”

Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026

Abby Bradberry “I'm also really more focused on shoring up docks one and two. They haven't had a lot of maintenance underground, like proper maintenance to shore it up in a long time. And I would prefer to see this money move to just making sure that dock is gonna hold”

Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026

Jack Finnegan “I move that the city council Authorize contract number 2639, Professional Services Agreement Birth 1 Expansion Dolphin and Dock. PND Engineers incorporated in the amount of $290,000”

Ketchikan: Recurring City Council Meeting of June 4, 2026 · Jun 5, 2026

“this grant will get us first, this gets us the system-wide system study by Schweitzer Engineering, and that's where this is really the backbone of all major projects for a utility. You need a good system study and a good protection system.”

Regular City Council Meeting · May 8, 2026

“right now it's inefficient. The backbone's inefficient. If we had power at the dock right now for cruise ships, we couldn't do it. With this, we can supply that power.”

Regular City Council Meeting · May 8, 2026

“my ask for you is to help me bring this grant home. Uh, these grants are highly competitive and, uh, the reviewers look at them and, uh, they look for local, uh, commitment to, uh, matching funds. So if they don't see the resolution in my grant application that has a matching funds resolution in there, they may deem it noncompliant or they may dismiss it. So having this support from the council really gives me a fighting chance for these grants”

Regular City Council Meeting · May 8, 2026

“74% Paid for and enables the load and enables us to sell the power in the future date. The project goes over 48 months. So, with the first year, it would be the engineering and the planning, and the years 1, 2, and 3 would be the construction and the commissioning in the very last year.”

Regular City Council Meeting · May 8, 2026

“We also get, as part of this project, we get the 5 new breakers, and we get the relays and the automation to go with those 5 breakers. We get 9 automated pull-top reclosers. We get the SCADA and the PLCs to go with that. And we have money in there for the fiber optic backbone going to those components”

Regular City Council Meeting · May 8, 2026

“the council met in an executive session. Uh, we worked on negotiations with Mr. Adams and did not reach an agreement. Mr. Adams turned down our final offers.”

Regular City Council Meeting · May 1, 2026

“I'd like to thank all the councilmen for their due diligence and hard work in this matter. It's not easy”

Regular City Council Meeting · May 1, 2026

“the bottom line is when we— this reverted back You know, what's supposed to happen is all these boats get treated the same. Anybody that pulls in there gets charged the daily electrical rate and the daily carport rate. And that's, you know, there is, um, there should be nobody getting a special rate because, you know, if this person gets it, then why is this person getting it?”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“Legally, there's not supposed to be any special rate for one person. It's supposed to all be at the daily rate.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“They actually spoke with them last year. They had a special rate that was given to them, and we don't know exactly how that was done in the past. It was a pass-through rate of some kind that should have not been given for electrical, for electrical, correct.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“motion passes.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“No, there's a, there's a set rate that they get charged. Anybody that ties up there gets a set rate based on their vessel, based on the footage, not consumption.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“The only thing that would be different is if you had, you know, you were moored, you know, for a long period of time, if you had your own slip or something like that, then you could set up your own electricity, which a lot of you folks do. But transient, they get charged the daily harbor rate and the daily electrical rate.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“if you recall, this all started when we had, uh, we had people that came and complained. Yeah, you know, and that's where this all took off from. And, uh, you know, researching, there's no lease, there's no permit, there was never anything that said Lucian Ballard could, could be here.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“That rate is set by ordinance, just so you're aware.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“Is this more of an issue on the town side or on the, the narrow side? The narrow side. The narrow side. Yeah, the narrow side, because nobody can move.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026

“it would have to be brought up through engineering and so on. We— I, I don't think I would do anything without, uh, you know, talking to P&D.”

Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026