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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from City of KetchikanClear
0:32
Abby Bradbury
“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
0:40
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
0:56
Speaker A
“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
0:29
Dick
“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
0:40
Jay Matani
“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
0:09
Abby Bradbury
“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
0:29
Speaker A
“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
0:38
Speaker A
“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
0:19
Speaker A
“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
0:31
Speaker A
“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
0:23
Speaker A
“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
0:23
Speaker A
“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
0:02
Speaker B
“That rate is set by ordinance, just so you're aware.”Port & Harbors Advisory Board Meeting of May 12, 2026 · May 13, 2026
0:21
Speaker B
“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
0:25
Speaker B
“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
0:17
Speaker B
“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
0:13
Speaker B
“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
0:22
Speaker B
“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
0:32
Speaker B
“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
0:29
Speaker B
“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
0:13
Speaker A
“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