Borough government of Petersburg, Alaska (Southeast). Assembly meetings, public hearings.
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Tom Kowalski
“I believe that hospitals where patients are hard to move and also living, assisted living facilities, the fire hall, places like that, very important infrastructure should be protected even more than just the average structure, building, or whatever.”Petersburg Borough: 7.6.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jul 7, 2026
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Stanton Gregor
“My take is, if we have to do 15 amendments, we should have not brought it forward until it was done. It's not a good ordinance, not a good piece of legislation. So I wanted to be very clear on the record. I think this process is and has been deeply flawed in how we got there.”Petersburg Borough: 7.6.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jul 7, 2026
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Tom Kowalski
“These setback requirements are very important here in Petersburg, and one of those rationales being that there's safety issues, including ice buildup. We had a lot of ice this year, and that's something that needs to be considered with setbacks.”Petersburg Borough: 7.6.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jul 7, 2026
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Tom Kowalski
“Our group— we're formalized now and it's called Alaska for Safe Tech. And we're also connecting with other organizations to help our efforts.”Petersburg Borough: 7.6.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jul 7, 2026
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Stanton Gregor
“On the first reading we had 5 amendments, and now here we have 10+ again because there's subsets A, B, and C. I think this is a very rushed ordinance that due to all these amendments can appear that it lacks transparency. I don't think that is the intent of this, but I think it feels that way. During my time on the assembly, I've never seen 15 amendments on an ordinance.”Petersburg Borough: 7.6.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jul 7, 2026
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Stanton Gregor
“I do support this amendment. As those who are listening at the last meeting when we discussed this ordinance, that was my primary reason of voting no. I didn't feel like going through a full amendment process during that meeting. My time— my thinking at the time was to either have Planning and Zoning looking at— look at it, or legal counsel. So, um, uh, I feel like this is an important amendment for the very specific reasons Member Newman mentioned.”Petersburg Borough: 6.15.2026 Assembly Meeting · Jun 19, 2026
Petersburg trades a sliver of land for a place to put its 911 gear
Petersburg's borough assembly voted 6-0 to sell a 0.23-acre parcel to Tidal Network, giving the borough space for public-safety communications equipment.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min readAIPetersburg, Alaska
