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Anna Brawley
Vice Chair, Anchorage Assembly · Anchorage Assembly · District 3
50 articles · 20 transcripts · 24 clips
Anchorage, Alaska 99509
Planner, project manager, and small consulting firm owner. Background in history and urban planning. Former Anchorage Budget Advisory Commission chair. Lives in Turnagain. Term expires 2026.
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State decides to offer 50-year lease for gas-fired data center south of Deadhorse
“The math is 60 permanent jobs, Alaskans locked in for 50 years. That's not an economic development.”
Anchorage Assembly to take up Transgender Day of Remembrance resolution Nov. 17
The Anchorage Assembly takes up a resolution Nov. 17 recognizing Transgender Day of Remembrance. Nine members and the mayor sponsor it. Last year's passed 9-3.
Anchorage Assembly to consider awareness month for families of homicide victims
The Anchorage Assembly will consider recognizing a month for families of homicide victims. Its Anchorage homicide figures don't match the state's crime report.
Driver kills pedestrian at Airport Heights Drive and Debarr Road in Anchorage, flees
“Each incident is an individual story, but this continues a larger trend that has been well documented in the municipality and across the United States.”
Anchorage Assembly chair would cut crime victim grants to shift pre-K to alcohol tax
“So essentially the gist of this amendment is it is net zero”
Anchorage Assembly chair proposes conditional protest of Midtown hotel's liquor license
Anchorage Assembly Chair Anna Brawley proposes a conditional protest of a liquor license for Courtyard by Marriott Midtown. Assembly takes public testimony Nov. 17.
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
Anchorage has borrowed to buy ambulances for at least a decade. The mayor and an Eagle River Assembly member want voters to OK a $3.3M levy instead.
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
The Anchorage Assembly scheduled its Missing Middle housing vote for a Friday at noon, then unscheduled it. It's now Dec. 1, the second delay in four weeks.
Anchorage passes surveillance rules, rejects new limits on plate reader searches
The Assembly wrote police plate reader and crime center rules into code 11-1, but left the 14-day data limit in police policy and rejected new search limits.
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.
Assembly chair drafts ordinance to cut 24 of Anchorage's 51 comprehensive plan documents
“proposes repeal of right now 24 items that will be coming to planning and zoning for further discussion well before it comes back to the assembly”
Planners say Missing Middle overlay fits Anchorage's comprehensive plan
Anchorage planners say the Missing Middle overlay fits the city's comprehensive plan, a plan they also say contradicts itself. The Assembly gets the final word.
Anchorage Assembly to take up renaming Eagle River Commons Park for homestead family
Eagle River's Commons Park could be renamed Pippel's Field Park, after the homestead family who farmed the land that's now downtown Eagle River.
Anchorage Assembly leaders propose keeping multifamily design rules on hold through 2035
“whether it's cutting red tape on 3- and 4-plex development to pausing residential design standards”
Anchorage Assembly set to honor veterans and Purple Heart recipients in November
The Anchorage Assembly is set Wednesday to recognize Veterans Day and Purple Heart Month. About 1 in 10 Alaskans has served, its resolution notes.
LaFrance asks residents to help decide what Anchorage keeps as a 2028 gap looms
“Our tax cap growth has not kept up with the actual cost increases to run this city.”
Girdwood's new park pavilion could be named for longtime resident John Trautner
Girdwood's new park pavilion may be named for John Trautner, a former fire chief and Texaco owner who came to Alaska in 1953. The Assembly takes it up Nov. 4.
Assembly resumes hearing Nov. 4 on nine-seat Chugach park access board
“This proposal formalizes that process and ensures a variety of perspectives are at the table to make recommendations.”
Anchorage Assembly may hold the Crazy Horse's liquor renewal until fire officials sign off
The Assembly may hold up the Crazy Horse's liquor renewal until the fire department signs off on the Gambell Street club, in a building dating to 1955.
Anchorage parks would trade 32 seasonal jobs for nine year-round positions
“myself and former member Constant ran an amendment that was actually with full support in from the Parks Direct Department to basically remove a bunch of seasonal positions and convert that equivalent dollar amount into full-time positions”
Anchorage fire chief expects two recruit academies in 2027 as about 50 can retire
“regardless of what we would like to do, that decision is not reflected in our budget”
Anchorage budget office lists pool closures and bus cuts as possible options for 2028 gap
“So the buck literally stops with us.”
Revised Chugach access board plan would bar CASA from taking over existing road upkeep
Anchorage Assembly leaders rewrote their Chugach access board plan again, barring the park access tax from taking over road upkeep. The hearing got bumped.
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 recognize Indigenous Peoples Day and welcome AFN delegates Tuesday
“It is a time to honor the generations who have cared for this land and recognize the important role Indigenous communities continue to play in shaping Anchorage and Alaska, as they have for thousands of years.”
Anchorage officials propose asking voters to fund an ambulance and its crew
Anchorage wants voters to buy one more ambulance for $380,000, then pay about $1.5 million a year for the crew. City officials call it a test.
Anchorage Assembly to weigh asking Congress to let disaster aid support relocation
A year after Typhoon Halong, an Anchorage Assembly resolution would urge Congress to let disaster aid help villages relocate, not only rebuild where they were.
Merrill Field planners propose King Air 200 as design aircraft for 20-year plan
Merrill Field's 20-year plan will be built around the King Air 200. Also learned: the first stop for many rural flyers landing there is Costco.
Port of Alaska asks federal regulators to shrink Terminal 1 beluga shutdown zone
“you meant kind of behind schedule, is that right?”
Anchorage Assembly takes up rewritten Chugach access board plan Tuesday
“This proposal formalizes that process and ensures a variety of perspectives are at the table to make recommendations.”
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 member proposes writing police surveillance limits into city charter
Anchorage Assembly member Keith McCormick wants police surveillance limits locked into the city charter, where only voters could change them, including warrant rules for tracking and biometric data.
Northeast Anchorage council urges "thorough and independent" study of Assembly spending
A Northeast Anchorage community council voted 19-0 to back the Assembly's spending study, and asked members and staff to skip the "half-hearted compliance."
AFN's 60th convention brings candidates, subsistence and resolutions
AFN marks 60 years at its Oct. 22-24 convention in Anchorage, with Alaska's congressional delegation, a candidates forum and resolutions on the agenda.
Anchorage Assembly chair proposes conditional protest of Circle K liquor license transfers
Anchorage Assembly Chair Anna Brawley proposes protesting Circle K's transfer of four package store liquor licenses. A public hearing is set for Oct. 20 at Loussac Library.
Anchorage voters could update ballot signatures with the clerk under proposed ordinance
Anchorage voters could soon update the signature their ballot gets checked against, instead of waiting on the state. Fewer newspaper ads, too.
Anchorage weighs requiring candidates to gather voter signatures to get on the ballot
Anchorage candidates may soon need 50 to 250 voter signatures to get on the ballot. The clerk says it's the first city she's worked in without them.
Appeals board chair says Anchorage cut most appealed values, expects more appeals
Anchorage cut values on most of a record 1,990 property appeals. The appeals board chair says few had good evidence and expects even more appeals next year.
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 approves standard hiring rules for clerk and ombudsman
Anchorage Assembly voted 12-0 to set one hiring process for the municipal clerk and ombudsman, requiring a selection committee for both offices.
Auditors link Anchorage's $25 million cash misstatement to how SAP closes the books
Anchorage's 2024 cash was misstated by $25 million. The city pays millions for SAP, and until it's fixed, the correction lives in an Excel workbook.
Port tops Anchorage's draft 2027 list of state and federal requests
Anchorage's 2027 wish list for Juneau and D.C. starts where it always does: the port. Housing near JBER and Cook Inlet gas come close behind.
Anchorage Assembly recognizes October as Filipino American History Month
Anchorage Assembly is set to approve a resolution Tuesday recognizing October 2026 as Filipino American History Month, a tradition it has repeated yearly since at least 2014.
Anchorage Assembly to consider Disability Employment Awareness Month resolution
The Anchorage Assembly is scheduled to consider a resolution on Oct. 6 recognizing October as Disability Employment Awareness Month. The Alaska Work Matters Task Force has separately reported lower employment among Alaskans with disabilities.
Anchorage plan narrows road service area seats on Chugach board
Anchorage Assembly narrowed who can fill two Chugach State Park access board seats to current or former road board supervisors instead of any road service area resident.
Anchorage mayor proposes 2027 budget that relies on one-time money, warns of 2028 fiscal cliff
Anchorage's mayor proposed a 2027 budget that plugs a $15 million hole mostly with one-time money, and she says the city hits a fiscal cliff in 2028.
