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Erin Baldwin Day
Assembly Member · Anchorage Assembly · District 4
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Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska
Born and raised Alaskan. East High graduate. Fifteen years as policy advocate, community organizer, pastor, and nonprofit leader. Focus on housing, childcare, and transportation. Term expires 2028.
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Anchorage Assembly members push back on draft social media rules
Read literally, draft rules would bar Anchorage Assembly members from touting their records on campaign pages. Members balked. The attorney: "Not the intent."
Anchorage Assembly chair readies a plan to replace Zac Johnson if his ticket wins
The Anchorage Assembly is penciling in a December meeting to replace Zac Johnson in case he becomes lieutenant governor. The count so far leans his way.
Anchorage's water utility would cut its Eklutna hydro payments roughly in half
Anchorage's water utility would pay the Eklutna hydro owners about half as much under new deals, then could own water rights at the lake in 2055.
Anchorage Assembly to weigh mandatory penalties for public intoxication and petitions for candidates
Anchorage's Assembly takes up mandatory penalties for repeat public intoxication, signatures to run for office and a mixed-use condo tax break Nov. 17.
Anchorage permits more new housing than in any year since 2015, mayor's office says
“So 261 residential permits, residential units permitted in 2023, 299 in 2024, and 393 in 2025. And I'd like to posit that that trajectory does not get us to 10,000 homes in 10 years.”
Anchorage Assembly members want behavioral health care on the city's list for Juneau
Anchorage's wish list for the Legislature asks for tougher drug penalties but makes no specific ask for behavioral health care. Assembly members noticed.
Anchorage proposal would replace yearly ambulance bonds with a $3.345 million levy
“we are moving to a system where we know what it costs and we are going to pay upfront for those things”
Assembly shelves salary commission pick after questions over his firm's city contract
Anchorage's mayor picked a consultant for the panel that sets officials' pay. Then his firm's $86,899 city contract came up, and the Assembly shelved the pick.
Anchorage Assembly delays Missing Middle housing vote again, this time to Dec. 1
“we're trying to do this in a way that gives you and the public the most possible visibility into an S-1 version before deliberation”
Alcohol tax advocates ask Anchorage to put more into prevention and treatment
Groups behind Anchorage's alcohol tax say it put nothing into substance misuse treatment in 2025 or 2026, with none planned for 2027. They want a change.
Anchorage overlay developers would pay full cost of water and sewer extensions, AWWU says
Anchorage's water utility says Missing Middle builders would pay for new water and sewer lines themselves, and the price can change across a street.
LaFrance asks residents to help decide what Anchorage keeps as a 2028 gap looms
Anchorage's mayor asked residents to help decide which city services to keep and how to pay for them, with a roughly $30 million gap projected for 2028.
Anchorage developers still build parking without a mandate, planners say
“And what we're seeing from the developments that have happened is that that's fundamentally false. It's not actually happening.”
Anchorage fire chief expects two recruit academies in 2027 as about 50 can retire
“we really do have a lot of folks who are set to retire in the coming year, and that is, that is going to create some additional complexities for you all”
Anchorage budget office lists pool closures and bus cuts as possible options for 2028 gap
“I mean, it's 1.8 million, and I think there's a calculus to be done there about what does that mean in terms of economic value?”
Willow Commons stays full in its first six months, health department says
“Do we know what that, what that looks like as far as utilities, security, snow removal?”
East 56 shelter will reach 200 beds by Nov. 30, a month earlier than last year
Anchorage will add East 56 shelter beds every other week to hit 450 citywide by Nov. 30, about a month before it reached 200 at East 56 last winter.
Anchorage's water utility could own the rights to most of the city's tap water in 2055
Most of Anchorage's tap water comes from a lake whose water rights belong to the hydro owners. A deal OK'd 12-0 lets the city's water utility own them in 2055.
Anchorage Assembly amends proposed police surveillance rules, then runs out of time
The Assembly agreed an administrative warrant isn't enough to share surveillance data the rules bar, made it easier to pause a tool, then ran out of clock.
Downtown business leaders ask Anchorage Assembly to make police foot patrol permanent
Downtown business groups asked the Assembly to make APD's foot patrol permanent. The bed tax money paying for it is nearly gone, and the 2027 budget has none.
Anchorage Assembly to consider study of building rules in high-hazard earthquake zones
“is a policy decision that should not be undertaken without careful study by municipal staff, community experts, and emergency management professionals”
Anchorage officials propose asking voters to fund an ambulance and its crew
“1.35-ish million to staff the thing we just asked you if you wanted to buy”
Anchorage Assembly approves Tozier Tract land swap with nonbinding housing targets
Anchorage agreed to trade the Tozier Tract, land it spent decades trying to get, for four downtown parking lots. Its housing targets are only recommendations.
Anchorage Assembly postpones missing middle housing vote to Nov. 4
Anchorage Assembly delayed a vote on Missing Middle Housing rules to Nov. 4 to review amendments that would allow duplexes and triplexes on about 28,000 residential parcels across the city.
Anchorage Assembly to hear proposal capping city department staffing Tuesday
Anchorage departments have topped their budgeted staffing five years running. An Assembly proposal would make them get permission first. Hearing Tuesday.
Anchorage ordinance would raise transit-corridor density target from 8 to 36 homes per acre
“The updated map better reflects the intent of the ordinance to enable the development of creative multifamily housing that the average resident can afford to build, buy, or rent.”
Anchorage mayor proposes 2027 budget that relies on one-time money, warns of 2028 fiscal cliff
“about two-thirds of our needs are being funded by property tax, and we have double the infrastructure at this point to be able to maintain”
January count finds downtown Anchorage street parking peaked at about a third full
“illustrate whether we actually have parking challenges in Anchorage, and if so, where”
Montessori school's September repairs top yearly budget as child care fund grants face cuts
One break-in and a fire inspection blew through an Anchorage Montessori school's yearly repair budget in a month. The city fund that helps is facing cuts.
Anchorage schools model a $9 million budget gap for fiscal 2028
Anchorage schools project a $9 million fiscal 2028 gap after reserves and assumed energy relief. Officials say underlying cost growth is closer to $40 million.
Anchorage officials fail to agree on shared school-closure committee
The Assembly and School Board could not agree on giving both bodies votes on a school-closure committee. The existing board-led panel remains.
Anchorage schedules Oct. 6 hearing on transit-corridor plan
“This is what our plans say should have been happening all along.”
Anchorage service-area debate exposes unanswered questions about taxes and emergency coverage
“So there are some people who have a premium subscription to the Municipality of Anchorage and they're they're not paying for it, is what I'm hearing.”
Anchorage housing overlay hearing carries to Oct. 6 after divided testimony
Anchorage heard nearly 90 minutes of divided housing testimony, then ran out of time. The 30,000-parcel overlay returns Oct. 6
Anchorage police launch phased pre-arrest deflection pilot Sept. 23
Anchorage's deflection pilot begins Sept. 23. Police make the referral, True North handles navigation and community providers deliver treatment.
Anchorage named a day for Dolly Parton three weeks after her death
Anchorage kids get more than 73,000 free books a year in the mail. The Assembly named Sept. 25 for the woman behind it, three weeks after her death.
Anchorage wants 10,000 homes. Its zoning fight is over where they can fit.
“trying to walk that line between what is the minimum, minimum effective dose, as it were, of zoning reform versus what kinds of changes are acceptable to our neighbors”
Anchorage keeps funding a $5 million median barrier on 5th Avenue
“Building a $5 million wall down the middle of 5th Avenue is not justifiable and the data does not support it.”
An ordinance would tighten oversight of Anchorage's staffing overruns
“standalone but very much connected to the, the budget of the municipality and are under the purview of the Anchorage Assembly”
Anchorage wants city land sales weighed by housing, not price alone
Anchorage land sales now come with a written case for the housing they produce. The guidance is nonbinding, but it changes what the Assembly weighs.
Anchorage Assembly takes up next year's budget priorities
“The muni is doing a lot more with less dollars at this point.”
Anchorage could shrink its minimum lot size by two-thirds under a pending ordinance
Anchorage could cut its minimum single-family lot to a third of current size and let buildings cover 70 percent of it. The hearing is Sept. 15.
Some Anchorage homes went a month without running water last winter
Some Anchorage homes went a month without running water last winter. Frozen lines hit triple the usual number, and thawing them is the customer's expense.
Anchorage Assembly keeps a non-binding housing resolution moving
The Anchorage Assembly refused to delay a housing resolution that, by its own sponsor's account, does not require anyone at all to do anything.
Planners urged cutting the overlay's R-1 height break. The sponsors kept it.
Anchorage planning staff told the sponsors of a housing overlay to drop its special height rules for single-family zones. The sponsors kept them.
Anchorage will weigh housing density, not just price, when it sells land
The Anchorage Assembly voted 11-0 to tell the city to weigh housing density and affordability, not just price, when it disposes of municipal land.
Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their spending accounts examined in a 9-2 vote
“the public does not trust us when we say that we have our house in order”
Anchorage Assembly weighs $305,000 more for South Goldenview road repairs
“They're only responsible for paying for the maintenance on their little strip of road.”
Anchorage weighs $470,000 no-bid sale of Government Hill lot
“we don't have our own prioritized list of the types of housing that we want to be sure municipal land actually produces”
Anchorage weighs a fiscal summit as property taxes carry the city
“And about two-thirds of our needs are being funded by property tax, and we have double the infrastructure at this point to be able to maintain.”
