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George Martinez

George Martinez

Assembly Member · Anchorage Assembly · District 5

Elected OfficialVerified

9 articles · 20 transcripts · 5 clips

Also known as:Assembly Member MartinezMartinez
www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Pages/About%20Us%20-%20Member%20Profiles.aspx

Self-employed strategic consultant. Former college professor, artist, and U.S. cultural envoy. Previously Special Assistant to the Mayor. BA and doctoral fellow in political science. Term expires 2026.

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Assembly Member · Municipality of Anchorage AssemblyMember · Assembly Member · Petersburg Borough AssemblyMember · Anchorage AssemblyAssemblymember · Anchorage Assembly

Anchorage Assembly will vote June 23 on $214,684 for a pedestrian safety campaign

“I'm more interested now in beginning to have a more holistic look at the relationship between traffic calming, safety improvements, and economic development.”
Alaska News1w ago

Anchorage Assembly reviews missing middle housing overlay for transit corridors

“this is really old language that we're bringing to implementation, and Anchorage seems to have a problem where the rubber meets the road. That's where we often seem to not be able to get past.”
Alaska News1w ago

Anchorage Platting Board to consider removing 1954 plat notes for ADU

“We're rolling back barriers. And that seemed like an arbitrary barrier.”
Alaska News2w ago

Mat-Su correctional-officer recruiting sessions run weekly

“struggled to find people to apply”
Alaska News2w ago

Alaska Corrections holds weekly recruiting sessions in Wasilla

“struggled to find people to apply”
Alaska News3w ago

Anchorage faces $1.3 billion stormwater infrastructure deficit

“I notice areas of regular, recurring maintenance problems with flooding for years on some of the areas that that seem to have the dots in my district.”
Alaska News1mo ago

Petersburg sewer rates to rise 20% as EPA bans mixing zone

“I had a horrifying fascinating tour of the sewer treatment plant a few months ago, and there's nothing luxurious going on out there.”
Alaska News1mo ago

Assembly advances cell tower ordinance requiring conditional use permits

“if the public has something they would like different, can that happen, uh, during the 3-reading process, or does it, does it reset anything?”
Alaska News1mo ago

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

“AR 2026-52, resolution of the Anchorage Assembly declaring intent to evaluate a wildfire interface service area to support long-term risk mitigation, fiscal, fiscal sustainability in high-risk wildland urban interface zones”
Alaska News2mo ago4 attributions