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

Clips from Mat-Su BoroughClear
0:06
Tyler Young“That person has not indicated that they wish to speak at this time. Okay, I am closing public hearing.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 ·

0:19
Tyler Young“Nobody's here. Anybody online that wants to speak? We have one person online. To the person online, if you press star 3 on your keypad phone, it will raise your hand and we will begin the process of speaking if you wish to speak.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 ·

0:38

Chris Kerlin

“A topographic narrative was submitted by the surveyor pursuant to MSB 4320.281, and it is at Exhibit C.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 ·

0:20

Chris Kerlin

“The request is to create 2 lots from Parcel 2, 40-acre exemption resolution number 2017-15. The petitioner's request of variance from MSB 4320.140, physical access. The variance request can be found at Exhibit B with Questions A through C answered.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 ·

0:16

Owen Dix

“Owen Dix, Resolute Land Surveying, for the petitioner. I just wanted to say thank you to the Planning Board for your service, and thanks to the planning staff for all your diligent efforts. And if there's any questions, I'm here.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 ·

0:22

Chris Kerlin

“Legal access and usable area exists. Staff recommends approval of the variance requests from 4320-140 Physical Access and the preliminary plat of Deception Bluff based on these 5 findings of fact and 7 conditions of approval.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 5, 2026 ·

0:34
Bill Gamble“ice is so desperately needed in the northern part of the valley, and this is really going to make, um, the Big Lake Lions Rec Center a year-round facility for our young athletes to get out there and spend time you know, doing healthy activities, time with their parents, interacting and just building relationships.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:14
Mike Brown“And, and for the record, there is actually a potential CDS grant coming, uh, through Senator Murkowski's office. It's not even represented on here.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:18
Mike Brown“you see it as individual legislation, accept and appropriates, like you're going to see tonight for the $2.5 million for the Big Lake Rec Center. You see it in pieces, but you never see it holistically.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:30
Mike Brown“But if you look beyond that, at the top right there, it talks about $386 million. There's another $137 million in grants that are coming to the borough that are improving upon primarily infrastructure and some programs in different areas across the borough.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:22
Mike Brown“This is a big deal for the community. This is going to allow us to do a lot that doesn't put the burden on property taxes, and that's significant.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:38
Edna DeVries“Ordinance 26107, an ordinance accepting and appropriating $2 million Excuse me, $2.5 million from the Mat-Su Valley Health Foundation for installation of a refrigerated arena dasher board and plexiglass system at the Big Lake Lions Recreation Center, with accompanying Resolution 2697, a resolution approving the scope of work and budget for installation of a refrigerated ice sheet, dasher board, and plexiglass system at the Big Lake Lions Recreation Center.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:12
Mike Brown“Pretty historic for the— I was going to say the borough— for the Alaska Railroad Corporation to receive a $240 or really about a $250 million grant. So a quarter of a billion dollars.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:19
Bill Gamble“this is just going to go a long way to helping our kids, you know, north and west of the core area where there's already two ice rinks. And I'm just so appreciative of them realizing the investment that they're making in our kids by investing into this refrigeration unit.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:10
Edna DeVries“is there any objection to the ordinance and resolution? I don't see any objections, so the legislation passes.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:16
Stephanie Nowers“I think that, uh, what you can see is tremendous support. Each of these kids here in, uh, their uniform probably represents at least 5 others, or at least 5 other families of people that will get use out of this arena.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:22
Mike Brown“In other words, outside of local tax dollars. That is a huge, significant investment.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:30
Mike Brown“And that is to complete the Point MacKenzie rail extension project, which stalled out years ago and has been in the makings for a couple of decades.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:18
Bill Gamble“the Susitna North Dam never got completed, the bridge across the inlet never completed, and for a long time PMRE wasn't getting completed. And now we are just moving forward and this is just going to steamroll.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:21
Mike Brown“It's crazy, um, what we're seeing. And but again, it didn't just happen. Folks had to go out and do some real hard work, uh, to put this together.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:09
Mike Brown“This does not include our non-federal match. This is, this is money that's coming in from outside of local revenues.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:35
Mike Brown“my understanding is from the grant side, when they awarded us the $2.5 million for the Big Lake Rec Center, it was a very significant portion of what they were allocating the year. So it was not a small ask from them, and— but they see what we're trying to do there, and so I really appreciate their leadership team, their board.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assemby Regular Meeting - Oct. 20, 2026 ·

0:21
Alex Strawn“My recommendation would be that you allow some pavement on the edge of the water body to allow for boat ramps.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:25

Patty Fisher

“I have been involved in two task forces, and they've basically gone nowhere. And I find it very frustrating that people spent so much time and effort on a task only to have the Assembly just basically put it aside for a year and ignore it.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:21

Alan Larson

“we presented that to DNR and DNR said, "We don't care. We're giving it to the borough. It's the borough's responsibility to make sure they're doing the best for the community."”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:37
Rod Hanson“We do agree with the recommendations that were put forth by the Planning Commission in their resolution in August of '25, Resolution 2515.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:12
Alex Strawn“this only included lakes. It did not include streams and rivers. So the, the actual reality of how many violations are out there is probably at least double this amount.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

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Stephanie Nowers“I don't want to spit in the eye of people who have legally complied out here and just say, eh, sorry, you know, thanks for Thanks for doing the right thing. We're just going to give everybody else an ollie ollie and come free.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:17

Andrea Larson

“So I'm requesting the formal public meetings be held prior to November 17th, um, the November 17th Public Works Assembly informational meeting, which the Public Works Department is going to be presenting to you on November 17th.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:28

Alan Larson

“that's the map that she showed there shows that the, the railroad has a substantial part of Talkeetna, and that's all the wooded area, partly which is what the tourists come for. And since there's a 3% sales tax in Talkeetna, the tourism industry and the people that actually go through the sites and these woods are the ones that are paying a big portion of our public utility up there for water and sewer. So it's a valuable asset.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:10
Alex Strawn“So, So given that, we have a total of 763 structures that met that criteria of being likely illegal.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:59
Rod Hanson“We believe a new 6-month duration task force would be the best path forward to a pragmatic solution that addresses both the environmental protection issues and individual property owner rights. We strongly suggest the task force be asked to outline their findings and recommendations only in a resolution to the assembly. They should not be asked to get into the details of Robert's Rules and process of writing code, but simply think through the issues and bring forward their recommendations to you.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:12

Alan Larson

“There's both sides to the story, and I just think that'd be good for you guys to hear the whole story before we make a selection and start going forward.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:41

Andrea Larson

“I'm submitting a letter here of requests about the Talkeetna Bear Trail Woods site selection for the borough's Talkeetna Headworks project, the upgrade project. The request is for the residents, business owners, and neighboring properties to have formal input and participation, participation in this decision.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:31
Stephanie Nowers“if you're going to put a rule in place, you got to make sure it ties to the goal. The goal is to keep the water clean. So what we don't have is kind of a robust system in here for testing the water, because if the rules that we have now and the violations we have now aren't polluting the water, then maybe that's not a problem. Or if the water is more polluted than we think, then we need to tighten it up.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:12
Maxwell Sumner“I don't think you can put everyone in the— everyone in the valley that wants the 75-foot buffer maintained, I don't think you can put them all in the bucket of saying that their primary concern is the environment.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:26
Alex Strawn“they, of course, made recommendations, which was sponsored by Assemblymember Hale, which was very all-inclusive, touched many sections of code, and was a result of a couple of years of work. That failed.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:23
Bill Gamble“we've been— or the borough's been dealing with this issue for over 50 years now, and it keeps getting kicked down the road, and we can't do it anymore. It's time for us to do something. And after our last meeting, we did not accept the task force's resolution and recommendations.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:31
Bill Gamble“I'm willing to, um, to bend a little, I guess, to let the people that are within 75 feet that could meet some of our new regulations, if you will, I'm willing to bend to let that happen to get everybody into compliance.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:41

Alan Larson

“we went to the wrong people with the public comments about the use of a specific site. At this point, the site's been identified by the borough that we're going to go ahead— that they're going to go ahead and pursue that site. And I think that's what we need to do as people, is to go through the public opinion process”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:56
Bill Gamble“They just seem to be too onerous and too costly for people to comply with. So I put a call out to my constituents, my community, and ask for some suggestions on how we can go forward to deal with the waterfront setback issue without it being too difficult for people to comply with”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:13
Stephanie Nowers“this was voted in, and then the assembly decided to try to shrink the amount back to 45, and the voters by 2 to 1 said no, it should be 75 feet setback from the water.”

Mat-Su Borough: Assembly Special Meeting - October 20, 2026 ·

0:36

Terry Zell

“We have a subdivision all around us, and we thought it was really unfair to have traffic and perhaps stone people— you gotta know that's gonna happen— driving around when there might be children out there. And why, why upset your neighbors? So we said, let's just keep it at 8 o'clock.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 ·

0:47
Wade Long“Staff finds that the proposed conditional use permit amendment meets all applicable standards under MSB 17.60. Staff recommends approval of the requested 1-hour expansion of operating hours. Accordingly, staff is amenable to either of the following approaches, subject to the direction of the Planning Commission. Option 1, remove existing permit condition number 5 and allow operating hours at the owner's discretion, providing the facility remains in compliance with all applicable state and local regulations”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 ·

0:16
Kelly Allen“I will tell you, just reading the tea leaves here, I think this is a pretty reasonable request. You haven't had a violation in, you know, however long it's been, you never have had one.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 ·

0:14
Kelly Allen“I will ask you, um, so I found it interesting that you're asking to open an hour earlier when you close earlier than most stores. And so what was— what's that decision about? Is that the demographic?”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 ·

0:18
Brendan Carpenter“I think, um, just the fact that they've showed that they don't want to stay open so late, they did that themselves. I think the choice of 9 AM is prob— it's right after morning traffic, everybody trying to get out of the subdivision at 7 to 8. You open up at 9, so I'm inclined to agree with you.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 ·

0:28
Wade Long“State regulations currently permit marijuana retail facilities to operate between 8:00 AM 5:00 AM the following day. Or option 2, amend existing permit condition number 5 to allow the operate— to allow the hours requested by the applicant as follows: the hours of operation shall not exceed 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM daily.”

Mat-Su Borough: Planning Commission Meeting Oct 19, 2026 ·

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