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

Erin Baldwin Day
“I'm curious, what does that capacity look like within the Office of Venues? Do we have the real human capacity to administer these contracts more thoroughly at this point? And it seems to have been kind of like a recurring question in the Audit Committee is, you know, is our contract administration on point sort of across across the board. So I'm wondering, you know, do we have policies and procedures for this? What do we think about the total workload of the person who will be shouldering this?”Anchorage Assembly: Special Assembly Meeting · Jun 26, 2026

Erin Baldwin Day
“going back to the audit findings, and this is really sort of an internal business question, but I think it's germane. a lot of those findings were really related to some challenges with contract administration and capacity.”Anchorage Assembly: Special Assembly Meeting · Jun 26, 2026

Trevor Storrs
“Just to remind folks, we— this used to be, again, also by the alcohol tax. It came over— this came over by an assembly member, and we had to adjust the budget.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026

Trevor Storrs
“ASD and Best Beginning funds may or may not, but we're going to base it off that we have those in our budget.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026

Trevor Storrs
“the baseline facts is we're working off of $5.2 million. That's what they're predicting. Fingers crossed that it's that and not lower.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026

Jessica Simonsen
“Who knew spending $5 million was so difficult, right? I think back to our, you know, first conversations as a board is it's a drop in the bucket, right? Yeah, it seems like a lot of money until it's not.”Anchorage Assembly: ACCEE Fund Board Meeting 2026-06-17 Meeting Recording · Jun 24, 2026
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.

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

The Anchorage Assembly approved management contracts for three city ice arenas, as officials acknowledged thin oversight staffing and questioned the aging Sullivan Arena's future.

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.

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

Anchorage homelessness committee testimony Wednesday sits inside a debate shaped by competing lived experiences — both unhoused and housed residents

Two Anchorage Assembly members publicly called Tuesday for Assembly Member George Martinez to resign after the Alaska Public Offices Commission found he willfully misused campaign funds and lied under oath, threatening formal removal proceedings if he refuses.

True North Recovery dropped crisis services from its Fairview plan after community pushback — replacing them with outpatient care and mobile outreach

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.

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.

The Anchorage Assembly votes Tuesday, June 23, on three IDIQ contracts totaling up to $2.4 million for tree removal and arborist services, targeting spruce beetle kill and hazard trees across the Anchorage bowl.

The Anchorage Public Library cut Hoopla borrowing limits and added a daily spending cap to control costs, and is seeking Assembly approval of a $150,000 contract for 2026.

Anchorage Assembly votes June 23 on $11 million in on-call engineering contracts for the Port of Alaska Modernization Program

A Seaview Street homeowner told the Anchorage Assembly her neighborhood's wells exceed arsenic limits and asked for help funding a costly city-water connection.

The Anchorage Assembly must act by July 21, 2026 — the last regular meeting before the deadline — or permanently lose its right to protest a new restaurant eating place license for El Green-Go's at 5305 E Northern Lights Blvd.

Nonprofit housing assistance request

The Anchorage Assembly heard a Thursday worksession briefing on proposed amendments to municipal child care licensing code that would eliminate annual physical exam requirements, remove outdated sick-child-center provisions, and modernize training rules to align with state regulations, with a public hearing scheduled for May 26.

The Anchorage Assembly votes June 23 on awarding management of Ben Boeke and Dempsey Anderson Ice Arenas to a nonprofit subsidiary of the Anchorage Hockey Association for $10 annually, paired with a one-time $450,010 transition grant, ending a for-profit arrangement that cost the city up to $108,663 a year.

Chugach Electric is asking the Anchorage Assembly for perpetual easements through Russian Jack Springs Park and Ira Walker Park to bury overhead power lines

The Anchorage Assembly voted 11-0 Tuesday to award True North Recovery Inc. a contract for deflection navigation services with APD, creating a formal system to divert people who commit low-level offenses into behavioral health treatment rather than prosecution.

Mayor Suzanne LaFrance introduced two property tax incentive proposals Tuesday aimed at encouraging starter home construction, mixed-use development, and conversion of vacant commercial buildings, framing attainable housing as foundational to workforce stability and local business health.

Anchorage city funds carry $45 million in combined deficits, with the workers' compensation and IT funds accounting for the two largest gaps

The Anchorage Assembly votes Tuesday on $1.35 million in supportive housing grants to five nonprofits, including a Bering Sea tribal organization, funded through federal HOME-ARP dollars and city operating funds.

The Anchorage Police Department recommended awarding a four-year, $1.66 million contract to True North Recovery for deflection navigation services on Tuesday, drawing the base-year cost entirely from the Anchorage Health Department's Opioid Settlement fund.

Anchorage Assembly debated Wednesday whether a proposed five-year eligibility window for veteran procurement preferences would exclude combat veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Anchorage Assembly is scheduled to consider AR 2026-178 on June 23, which would formally recognize ASEA/AFSCME Local 52 as the exclusive bargaining representative for municipal workers after AMEA merged into ASEA on April 1, 2026.

Anchorage School District confronts a $40 million structural deficit on top of $90 million in prior cuts, with uncertainty over both state energy relief funding (not known until August 31) and municipal contribution levels creating urgent budget planning challenges for FY28.

The Anchorage Assembly votes Tuesday, June 23, on a $7.3 million engineering contract with HDL Engineering Consultants that launches a safety overhaul of Bragaw Street, a 1.5-mile corridor with no bike lanes and only intermittent sidewalk separation from traffic. Total programmed funding is listed as $34.4 million in the Assembly memorandum and $35.4 million in the department recommendation memo.

Anchorage's $859,850 Eklutna River study contract is part of a multi-year decision about hydropower, fish restoration, and tribal interests

The Anchorage Assembly voted 11-1 Tuesday to transfer a 9.6-acre Heritage Land Bank parcel to Alaska Natural Burial, a nonprofit that will create Anchorage's first natural burial cemetery. The move addresses the city's burial space shortage after Anchorage Memorial Park reached capacity and a 2024 cemetery bond failed.

The Anchorage Assembly takes up AO 2026-94 on June 23 for a first reading, a measure that would ban all disposable wipes from the municipal sewer system and carry fines up to $1,000, as AWWU reports the habit costs ratepayers more than $200,000 a year at a single treatment plant.

Anchorage Assembly committee asks administration to model fully funding schools OR fully funding general government — signaling a potential FY 2027 fiscal cliff

Anchorage Assembly will vote June 23 on $214,684 federal funds for a pedestrian safety campaign — inside a contested Anchorage policy response

The Anchorage Assembly will hold a public hearing Tuesday on transferring a 9.6-acre Heritage Land Bank parcel to Alaska Natural Burial, a nonprofit that would operate Anchorage's first natural burial cemetery at no cost to taxpayers.

After hearing emotional testimony from families who lost loved ones to police shootings, the Anchorage Assembly voted 8-4 Tuesday to postpone debate on a substitute version of a public safety oversight commission that would give APD and other agencies voting seats.

The Assembly passed a resolution recognizing National Gun Violence Awareness Day and Wear Orange Weekend after contentious debate over statistical accuracy, with amendments made to address concerns about data presentation.

Anchorage Assembly to vote June 23 on $2.57 million HUD housing and homelessness plan, with nearly half the funds unassigned to specific projects

Anchorage ordinance AO 2026-69 would repeal local child care rules on physicals, nutrition and training that the city calls outdated or duplicative of state law.

The Anchorage Assembly votes June 23 on a road maintenance contract worth up to $76 million for the Chugiak-Birchwood-Eagle River area — with McKenna Brothers Paving the only responsive bidder on both the maintenance and paving contracts.

The Anchorage Assembly votes June 23 on a $1,773,605 contract with Pruhs Construction to repair deteriorated sidewalks and upgrade curb ramps along 3rd through 8th Avenues downtown, funded by ARDSA Bond funds.
