Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Kodiak Island BoroughClear
0:08
Zac Johnson
“It's kind of appalling that Sourcewell wasn't being used before.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:07
Jeff Woods
“I don't like a system where we take, take, take without a dedicated way to repair, replace, or replenish.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:20
Jeff Woods
“I understand lodges are concerned and charter boat operators are concerned about a $10 box tax.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:17
Jeff Woods
“Sitka currently has a fish box tax where they levy $10 a box for seafood leaving the Sitka Borough. We have a much larger natural resource extraction footprint than Sitka does, I would wager to say.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:31
Bo Whiteside
“there's the amount of time, as Director Allen said, that they can be dedicating to much more important things than going through, through the procurement process for 7 hours to purchase a weed whacker or a truck. They can be spending on much more important items. But there's also a fiscal note attached to that. How many people, you know, 7 hours of staff time, how much did that cost us in salaries and benefits just for that procurement item for a weed whacker? Probably more than the weed whacker cost itself, I can assure you that.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:34
Jeff Woods
“if you were trying to, say, ship something out, you had to have a hunting/fishing license to go ahead and obtain whatever resource most likely that you're trying to extract. Theoretically, one could use the resident's address put on said hunting or fishing license to determine whether or not that would potentially fit as a resident of Unit 8 or not. There's that, assuming such a step would be legal. Uh, second off, if you're trying to collect such a tax, uh, the most obvious points of collection would either be through the shipping companies or through the airport, primarily.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:12
Jeff Woods
“This seems like a total no-brainer to me. It's efficient. It's kind of scary that we're actually looking at efficiency to me a little bit. But yeah, this will be getting my support.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:12
Bo Whiteside
“I support this as well. I mean, there's, there's the fiscal savings which are obvious, but factoring in the administrative burden, it's— there's two parts to that.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:23
Zac Johnson
“all it does is save staff time from going through the bidding process because the agency has already done the bidding for you. That's why we get to realize those sales. Something I think, for me at least, it would be a no-brainer.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:18
Zac Johnson
“The bidding's already been done. We've already approved it, right? I would like the assembly to reconsider a budgetary— a budget-approved item through a negotiated procurement contract has already met all the requirements of that purchase. Just seems like unnecessary bureaucracy to me.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:29
Charles Glagolich
“fundamentally We're behind the curve in our community in many regards if in fact that fish box fee, I hate to say tax, is not imposed.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
1:31
Charles Glagolich
“There's already two communities in Alaska, Sitka I'm more familiar with than any of them, which have imposed a fish box tax for all good reasons.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:10
Jared Griffin
“it sounds like there's consensus to move forward with it.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:39
Bo Whiteside
“if the administrative burden and the burden of enforcement can be addressed, including exempting our local residents from harvesting some fish and game for their freezers, then, then I'd support it going to the ballot.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:42
Jeff Woods
“Fish and Game information indicates that roughly 74% of the deer harvested in the Kodiak Island Borough are harvested by people who do not live in the Kodiak Island Borough. That makes— there's about 8,000 blacktail harvested a year in the Kodiak Island— in the borough, or Unit 8, let's just call it Unit 8. So assuming that I've never once seen somebody put their antlers in the same box that they put their meat in, because that would be weird, uh, you're looking at a substantial potential revenue stream there. That's not touching fisheries at all.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:23
Jared Griffin
“this and the next item that we are going to be looking at is about kind of like diversifying, not necessarily expanding, but, right, but diversifying our financial foundation, you know.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:17
Charles Glagolich
“It's happening in Sitka and Gustavus. I've never been there. I can't even pronounce it. They have realized that that's the direction to take, and you get pointed for our local community in the right direction.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:37
Valerie Erson
“They have concerns about the impact of a fish box excise tax on their businesses. We are also concerned with the idea that an excise tax is being discussed with the specific goal of bypassing a public vote. While we can appreciate that the Kodiak Island Borough needs to identify funding to support its activities, there should be an opportunity for the public and small businesses that would be impacted to have input into discussions on tax matters, review any proposals, and ultimately vote, as this could impact many families.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:36
Bo Whiteside
“I think the biggest hurdle for this would be the burden of enforcement. I mean, you have— I don't know how the state would— respond to, I guess, a cooperative approach to this and, and sharing records with us. But I do agree that there's a very high amount of transporters coming from the mainland down here to extract fish and game resources, a very, very high amount.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:34
Scott Smiley
“I'm not sure that we can have a rule that says if you're a Kodiak resident, you don't have to pay a tax, but if you're not a Kodiak resident, you do have to pay it. I think it came up with regard to fishing licenses for state residents and non-state residents. And there was originally— it was a huge amount of money for out-of-state, and the state Supreme Court said no, it has to be balanced in some way.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:50
Jeremiah Gardner
“My big concern here— excuse me— is for locals. I think language should be in here where if you are a resident of Kodiak, that I don't think that this should apply to you to some degree. There's, there's got to be a concession in there.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of June 25, 2026 Part 1 · Jun 25, 2026
0:24
Nova Javier
“If you're not ready, we can call a special meeting the following week. But by code, we need to make the appointment 30 days after you declare the seat vacant.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Meeting of June 25, 2026 · Jun 25, 2026
0:31
Nova Javier
“June 26th and July 3rd, we're going to, um, advertise the seat on the Kodiak Daily Mirror. Starting on Saturday, June July 11th, we will be receiving applications. The assembly is scheduled to conduct interviews with applicants on July 16th. If the assembly is ready to make an appointment, they can do so on the July 16th regular meeting.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Meeting of June 25, 2026 · Jun 25, 2026
0:20
Jared Griffin
“Up first is accepting the resignation of Assemblymember Dave Johnson and declaring the Assembly seat vacant.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Meeting of June 25, 2026 · Jun 25, 2026
0:10
Jared Griffin
“I think that the best compliment that you can give somebody who's leaving a group or a committee or a board is that you made us better.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Meeting of June 25, 2026 · Jun 25, 2026
0:06
Nova Javier
“Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes 6-0.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Meeting of June 25, 2026 · Jun 25, 2026
0:25
Nova Javier
“On June 4th, 2026, Assemblymember Johnson submitted his resignation letter from the assembly effective today. There are still more than 90 days remaining in the term since the position he holds will not end until October 2027.”Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Meeting of June 25, 2026 · Jun 25, 2026
0:28
Chris French
“The Native Village of Akarlik requests a conditional use permit for a utility facility within the C Conservation District. The subject parcel is split zoned between the C District and the W Watershed District. The utility facility is permitted use within the W District, therefore, the conditional use permit is needed for the portion of the development that is within the Sea Conservation District zone.”Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Regular Meeting of June 17, 2026 · Jun 17, 2026
0:29
Chris French
“The applicant proposes improvements to the current water treatment facility including a new water storage tank and new water lines from the tank to the treatment facility. This facility is the primary source of drinking water to the Village of Carluck.”Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Regular Meeting of June 17, 2026 · Jun 17, 2026
0:20
Speaker A
“To bring the existing utilities facility into compliance with the Sea Conservation Zone, proposed project includes replacing the water tank, water mains, and service lines to provide year-round service— year-round source of potable water. Can I get a motion, please? I move to approve Resolution FY 2026-022.”Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Regular Meeting of June 17, 2026 · Jun 17, 2026
0:26
Speaker A
“We have case number 26-019. Native Village of Karluk requests a conditional use permit on Township 30 South, Range 32 West, TL-2001, Track C, Karluk.”Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Regular Meeting of June 17, 2026 · Jun 17, 2026
0:19
Chris French
“The staff finds that the application meets the requirements of the code based on the submitted plan and details provided and based on the proposed conditions of approval. Both the findings and conditions of approval have been incorporated into the proposed resolution FY20— Mr. Mayor, 26-22.”Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Regular Meeting of June 17, 2026 · Jun 17, 2026
0:06
Speaker A
“I feel like your application was pretty thorough. We appreciate it.”Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Regular Meeting of June 17, 2026 · Jun 17, 2026
0:26
Zac Johnson
“By failing to collect the full MAPTOR amount tonight, we would be voluntarily eliminating nearly $500,000 in revenue generating capability capacity in next year.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:23
Scott Smiley
“I'm most worried about next year. And if we don't get the full amount for baptor, then we are. At least there's the threat of problems next year.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:10
Tina Woods
“I can't support this. I seconded the motion specifically to bring it to the floor. I want the discussion. I like hearing different points. I think this is leaving just a little too much on the table.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:20
Zac Johnson
“move to amend the resolution. Sorry, right here. To include a total mill rate of 9.15 and move the remaining $475,981 to fund 201.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:04
Jeremiah Gardner
“Move to amend to adopt option D.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:29
Jeremiah Gardner
“There was a school board meeting and there is a recording that approximately $900,000 was cut from their budget and they were able to find, quote, unquote, inefficiencies. No positions were cut from the school district”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:30
Jeremiah Gardner
“I would like to see our taxes go lower and lower. I'm going to be in favor of our lowest option on the table here”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:18
Scott Smiley
“I do think that the idea of cutting taxes has been around since Ronald Reagan. That's 40 goddamn years, pardon my French, that we've been cutting taxes. There's not a whole lot left at the school district.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:27
Zac Johnson
“It doesn't take any money whatsoever from any account. Everything we funded last week remains in place. All this does is is collect the amount of revenue authorized by the borough to collect.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:22
Bo Whiteside
“I still feel the amount budgeted for the school district was appropriate, especially in light of recent events where the school district stated on record during the most recent Board of education meeting that $900,000 in budget deficiencies were discovered.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:11
Jeremiah Gardner
“I ran on wanting to lower taxes. I believe I'll say it over and over again. We got to tighten our belts. I want to see taxes go down. My family's back is breaking.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:37
Bo Whiteside
“I support option D. My logic behind supporting this option is this budget is balanced. It provides continuity for all borough services, represents an $800,000 increase in school funding, and it also increases our MAPTOR capacity by approximately a half a million dollars for next fiscal year.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:19
Bo Whiteside
“Kea raised their electric rates by 12.5%. The City of Kodiak recently is entertaining and I'm not quite clear if they've adopted it yet, but they are looking to increase the water and sewer rate by 5%. We've all been to the gas pumps lately. We've all been to the grocery store. Everything is getting more expensive.”Prefix - Kodiak Island Borough Livestream · Jun 4, 2026
0:37
Bo Whiteside
“it has a great central location, good access to local businesses directly here in town. It's flat. There's access to utilities, and as I understand it from Director French, there are no limitations that he is aware of as far as connecting to water, sewer, electricity for this parcel.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026
0:42
Bo Whiteside
“I understand it is being used for baseball practice, But I remember Dr. LeDoux stating that this was a temporary offer made some 15 years ago and was never rescinded.”Kodiak Borough: Borough Lands Committee Regular Meeting of June 1, 2026 · Jun 1, 2026