Daniel Volland

Who controls Chugach access spending: trail advocates or the neighborhoods next door?

“we do not believe a small number of people should be able to leverage a large number of people by withholding entering into cooperative agreements.”

Anchorage Assembly rejects investigation into member Martinez's travel, 5-6

“I no longer believe the accusation document knowing what I know now. I think it is flawed.”

Anchorage wants a public board to steer its Chugach access money — and set qualifications for who runs it

Anchorage police oversight proposal dies without a second

Anchorage Assembly members frame Fairview grant as a civil-rights question

“Continuing to concentrate high-impact public services there risks repeating a pattern in which politically and economically marginalized neighborhoods are asked to carry burdens for the broader municipality.”

Anchorage Assembly resolution seeks school-funding scenarios and deferred maintenance analysis

Fairview grant dispute heads to Assembly with two members urging no vote

“The policy question is not whether the service is valuable. The question is whether the Municipality should continue placing region-serving social services in the same small geography, particularly Fairview and east downtown, when the Assembly has already adopted a policy of dispersed placement.”

Anchorage Assembly approves $750K True North grant after amendments fail and crisis-care dispute divides members

“I am flabbergasted and offended, and the trust that Member Scout mentions, I do not share anymore. We had multiple conversations where you intimated to us as the representatives of this neighborhood that you would not provide crisis care at this location You described the model that you described here tonight, but now you're saying, oh no, we will provide crisis care.”

Anchorage approved three ice-arena contracts. The office that oversees them has one employee.

Anchorage child care fund squeezed by programs moved from alcohol tax

Anchorage budget trade-off: schools OR general government, not both, may be coming

Anchorage Assembly postpones public safety commission to July

Anchorage Assembly recognizes Gun Violence Awareness Day after contentious debate over statistics

Anchorage School District to receive $37 million from state education funding increase

Anchorage secures $25M for Port of Alaska in state capital budget

Kenai approves $30K more for gas storage lease consulting

Assembly rejects resolution seeking larger Basher Trailhead parking lot

Assembly Approves Study of Wildfire Service Area for High-Risk Zones