Anchorage 12-member elected legislative body, meeting weekly in the Loussac Library chambers. Passes ordinances, approves the municipal budget, and confirms mayoral appointments.
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Anchorage, AK, USA
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Kevin Berry
“if we've got increased uncertainty in the future, if we can buy capital things, which I think of as one-time purchases, right, that make things better, that's maybe more effective if we can't actually do the operational grants in a consistent and reliable way.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-07-15 Meeting Recording · Jul 21, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“I'm feeling more comfortable with 75 ASD, just has a well-set-up system. High quality, very functional, and 50% really drops the impact. And it's in Title I schools, the highest rate.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-07-15 Meeting Recording · Jul 21, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“we will be drafting a letter, and today we're going to go through 2 scenarios. One is ASD and best beginnings remains within our budget and what that looks like and how does that play into the overall look.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-07-15 Meeting Recording · Jul 21, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“operational grants, were at $2.4 million, and then pilot this year was just, was at one, how many, $1.1 million. Christina? 1.25.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-07-15 Meeting Recording · Jul 21, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“$480,000 is basically 20% of what was available. So we're actually decreasing things by 80% in that category.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-07-15 Meeting Recording · Jul 21, 2026
Trevor Storrs
“the operational was $2.4 million. Okay. So this is, uh, $765,000 divided by— it is, uh, basically a decrease of just shy of 70% of what people got.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-07-15 Meeting Recording · Jul 21, 2026
The Assembly says Anchorage hunger is rising. Its resolution does not say how it knows.
A Hunger Action Month resolution set for reading at the Anchorage Assembly on Aug. 18 says nearly 40,000 Anchorage residents, including more than 12,000 children, face food insecurity, with the overall rate at 13.8 percent and the child rate above 18.4 percent.
by Walter AlaskaNews2h ago1 min readAI
Anchorage pushes for an emergency boat launch on Turnagain Arm after a drowning
An Anchorage Assembly resolution urges Alaska's congressional delegation to fund an emergency boat launch on Turnagain Arm, citing a 2026 drowning where rescuers had no way to launch.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago4 min readAI
An Anchorage cannabis grower's license renewal turns on a $12,760 tax bill
AK Legend Gardens owes the Municipality of Anchorage $12,760.98 in delinquent property taxes and collection items. The Anchorage Assembly entered a protest of its state cultivation license renewal Tuesday until the debt is paid and a site inspection is completed.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago1 min readAI
A former legislator asks the Assembly to judge a Muldoon marijuana permit by the usual rules
Les Gara wrote the Anchorage Assembly in support of Baltazar Arias, who has run Baltazar's Tire Shop for 25 years and wants a marijuana retail license at 1431 Muldoon Road. The letter is in the Assembly's file alongside written opposition from the Northeast Community Council area.
by Walter AlaskaNews22h ago2 min readAI
The same water-chemical contract came back $855,400 higher, with no explanation
The Anchorage Assembly is scheduled to vote Aug. 18 on two AWWU chemical supply contracts worth up to $4.34 million combined: fluoride additive for Eklutna and the coagulant used to clarify water at Eklutna and Ship Creek.
by Walter AlaskaNews13h ago2 min readAI
Former Anchorage Assembly member Karen Bronga killed in Sterling Highway crash
Former Anchorage Assembly member Karen Bronga was killed in a head-on crash at mile 62 of the Sterling Highway near Cooper Landing on July 24, 2026, according to Alaska State Troopers.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
A missing health certification is holding up the Homestead Lounge's liquor license transfer
A missing Anchorage Health Department certification would hold up the sale of the liquor license at The Homestead Lounge in Eagle River. The Anchorage Assembly holds a public hearing Tuesday, its last regular meeting before a Sept. 5 protest deadline.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago1 min readAI
A faulting cable under the Loussac Library would cost the city a permanent easement
An ordinance before the Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday, Aug. 18, would grant Chugach Electric a free perpetual easement across about 49,780 square feet of the Loussac Library grounds to replace faulting buried cable the city calls the only alternate feed for the area.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago1 min readAI
A Midtown hotel vacant since a 2019 fire seeks approval to serve alcohol
The Anchorage Assembly is scheduled Aug. 18 to act on an alcohol special land use permit letting the Courtyard by Marriott Midtown sell drinks on site seven days a week. The Planning Department mailed 121 notices and received no public comments.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago1 min readAI
Anchorage is considering expanding its surveillance network. The privacy rules are still a draft.
The Anchorage Assembly weighs $1.4 million for APD, including a Real Time Crime Center tied to license-plate surveillance, funded entirely by forfeiture and federal money that bypasses budget scrutiny.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago3 min readAI
A matter the Anchorage Assembly declared closed still draws a request for five minutes
Pastor Leon D. May filed an appearance request Aug. 12 seeking five minutes at the Anchorage Assembly's Aug. 18 meeting to speak about Assembly Member George Martinez, saying audience participation timed out at the last two meetings.
by Walter AlaskaNews13h ago2 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly weights resolution would back JBER buildout as base housing nears full
An Anchorage Assembly resolution would commit the city to planning for a projected JBER buildup, on a base whose family housing is already about 98% occupied.
by Walter AlaskaNews5d ago2 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly to weigh $77,500 increase to SRW Homeowner's road contract
Ice and spring runoff eroded roads in the SRW Homeowner's Limited Road Service Area, and the administration is asking the Anchorage Assembly on Aug. 18 to raise a Snowline Alaska maintenance contract from $21,450 to $98,950.
by Walter AlaskaNews1d ago1 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly to take up nearly $954,000 for Merrill Field planning work
Two resolutions before the Anchorage Municipal Assembly on Aug. 18 would appropriate nearly $954,000, mostly federal FAA grant money, for a Merrill Field master plan phase and an Airport Layout Plan update required after six new instrument flight procedures were published in 2024.
by Walter AlaskaNews3d ago1 min readAI
Anchorage wants a public board to steer its Chugach access money — and set qualifications for who runs it
An Anchorage ordinance would create a formal, public advisory board to prioritize Chugach State Park access projects funded by a 2023 voter-approved tax, replacing an ad hoc working group.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Who controls Chugach access spending: trail advocates or the neighborhoods next door?
Road service areas, neighborhood residents and community councils split over who should sit on a proposed Chugach State Park Access Advisory Board and whether the ordinance strips their consultation rights. The Anchorage Assembly voted 12-0 Tuesday to continue the hearing to October 6.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Two Assembly members want Martinez out. The removal law may not reach him
Donald Handeland, Jared Goecker call for Anchorage Assembly's George Martinez to resign over APOC fines; AMC 2.70.030 removal law faces private-capacity carve-out
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago4 min readAI
A year in, Anchorage's camping ordinance mostly moves people along, not into services
Anchorage's first-year camping ordinance report shows high voluntary compliance and few arrests, but that most people contacted left without any documented referral to services.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly unanimously passes veteran-owned business preference ordinance
The Anchorage Assembly voted 12-0 Tuesday to create a veteran-owned business preference program for municipal contracting, with a key 'right to match' amendment requiring qualifying businesses to accept contracts at the lowest competing bid price rather than automatically winning at a higher amount.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly rejects investigation into member Martinez's travel, 5-6
The Anchorage Assembly voted 5-6 Tuesday against directing an independent investigation of Assembly Member George Martinez's taxpayer-funded travel, then declined 3-8 to reconsider. Vice Chair Daniel Volland said he no longer believes the accusation document behind the case.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
APOC fines George Martinez after campaign-paid flight to Florida
The Alaska Public Offices Commission fined Anchorage Assembly member George Martinez $3,050 and ordered him to repay his campaign $2,255.70 after finding campaign funds improperly covered a Florida flight and emissions payment.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readAI
The military is adding a thousand people to a base that's already full
JBER family housing is nearly full as the military plans to add about 1,050 personnel in Alaska. An Anchorage Assembly resolution weighs the added housing pressure.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
A Muldoon pot shop clears the park buffer, by measuring to the playground
A marijuana store proposed inside a Muldoon Road tire shop meets Anchorage buffer rules by measuring to park playground equipment. The Assembly hears it Tuesday.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly recognizes four Eklutna youth interns for Elders meal program
The Anchorage Assembly passed AR No. 2026-220 on Tuesday recognizing four Native Village of Eklutna Rural Youth Services interns who built an Elders Freezer Meal program, repaired village sites, and are preparing to seat a planned Eklutna Youth Council.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Girdwood's park plans would move to Anchorage's standard public review
An Anchorage ordinance up for a vote Aug. 4 would route Girdwood's park master plans through the citywide review process, which includes a public hearing with oral comment.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Anchorage resolution would steer infrastructure to neighborhoods absorbing new housing
A resolution set for an Anchorage Assembly reading on July 21 would make it formal policy to prioritize sidewalks, drainage, lighting, and transit upgrades in neighborhoods designated for housing growth, but it appropriates no money and sets no deadline for the administration to act.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min readAI
Two Anchorage housing votes on June 23: a tax break and new fees on the same new homes
Anchorage will vote June 23 on a 10-year property tax break for starter-home buyers and new utility connection fees on the same new construction
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readAI
Anchorage proposes tax break for mixed-use buildings with owner-occupied units
The Anchorage Assembly took up AO 2026-93 on Thursday, a Mayor LaFrance ordinance that would give developers a 10-year property tax exemption on owner-occupied units in mixed-use buildings, targeting high-vacancy commercial properties from the 1970s and 1980s that current law leaves out.
by Walter AlaskaNews4w ago2 min readAI
Basher parking plan rises after city estimate showed need for more
Anchorage has increased the Basher Trailhead parking plan to 52 spaces after earlier reducing it to 45, though the revised design remains below the city's own demand estimate of 80 to 100 spaces.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly to consider letting licensed wildlife operators use air guns in city limits
Assembly member Zac Johnson has proposed letting state-licensed nuisance-wildlife operators use air rifles and air pistols inside city limits while performing licensed work. The ordinance would add an exception to existing municipal weapons code.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readAI
A Northwest think tank has ideas for Anchorage housing
The Sightline Institute, a Northwest think tank that advocates for denser housing, recommended Anchorage zoning changes to ease home prices. One was already adopted in 2025.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage homeless residents tell Assembly: shelters worse than jail
Anchorage homelessness committee testimony Wednesday sits inside a debate shaped by competing lived experiences — both unhoused and housed residents
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min readAI
UAA wants to pour wine at the gallery opening — under a 'sporting' license
UAA concessionaire seeks beer and wine permits for the Fine Arts Building and Wendy Williamson Auditorium; the Anchorage Assembly takes up the licenses Aug. 4.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago1 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly weighs 10-year tax break for first-time homebuyers of new starter homes
The Anchorage Assembly took up a proposed 10-year property tax exemption for first-time buyers of newly built homes, responding to a market where prices have climbed 40 percent since 2020. The ordinance caps eligible homes at the municipality's current average assessed single-family value of $496,746.
by Walter AlaskaNews4w ago3 min readAI
Anchorage Assembly weighs 10-year tax break for condos above shops and offices
Buyers of new owner-occupied condos above Anchorage shops and offices would owe no property tax on the residential value of their units for 10 years. The ordinance was scheduled for reading June 23 and remains before the Anchorage Assembly with no passage date on the document.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage police oversight proposal dies without a second
An advisory-only Anchorage police oversight commission died Tuesday without a second, leaving the city without any public safety oversight body since January 2024.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
Anchorage weighs $4M in park fencing as it works to hold reclaimed space
The Anchorage Assembly takes up two fencing contracts July 21 worth up to $4 million combined, awarding as-needed repair and construction work across Anchorage parks to McKinley Fence Company of Mat-Su and Acme Fence Company.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
The Anchorage Assembly studied how to remove one of its own. It never has.
An Anchorage Assembly briefing pegged the cost of removing a member at up to $210,000 and reviewed a removal process the body has never used. George Martinez took part.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAI
True North dropped crisis services from Fairview plan after months of pushback
True North Recovery dropped crisis services from its Fairview plan after community pushback — replacing them with outpatient care and mobile outreach
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readAI
Anchorage moves to sell an old Government Hill fire station to Chugach Electric
An ordinance before the Anchorage Assembly would sell the former Fire Station No. 2 on Government Hill to Chugach Electric for $470,000 without competitive bidding.
by Walter AlaskaNews1w ago1 min readAI