May 20, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
Congratulations Graduates!
I'd like to start out by recognizing this is graduation season. This past week, we graduated 17 new cadets into the Anchorage Fire Department into probationary firefighters. So we have new and very excited individuals who are now providing services to our Municipality and getting training in the best fire department in the world. The Anchorage Police Department Academy graduation is next week and it's exciting that we have our first full class a number of years with another full class in coming this fall, which is helping us to get back to a position where we have full staff in both these critical public safety and EMS branches. One of last year's Assembly priorities was to develop the municipal workforce, so it's great to see all of our departments starting to fill back up with staff over the past year. Having strong classes of first responders coming to work in our fire and police departments is important because public safety and emergency services are high priority in our community and success depends on having for a long train staff to carry out their missions.
It's also high school and college graduation season. The Anchorage School District is graduating this month 2,950 seniors from the high schools in the Municipality. And this spring, UAA graduated more than 950 students. So with that, to all of those individuals who are starting their careers or finishing their high school experience and their college expenses, I want to say congratulations and thank you for the commitments he'll be making to our community.
Happy Municipal Clerks' Week!
Also last week was Municipal Clerks’ Week. We had a large number of recognition resolutions at our last meeting and we weren't able to fully recognize one important group. I'd like to do that now. Municipal Clerks’ Week took place earlier in May. The Assembly couldn't do our work without having an extremely competent and well-organized Clerk's Office. From supporting our meetings to manage and public records and overseeing elections, their work ensures that the work of this body function smoothly. So thank you to our Clerk's Office.
Youth Member Application Now Open
Speaking of graduates, we had our youth members graduate off of our Assembly’s body at our last meeting. And so now we are going to open the solicitation application for new youth representatives. We're recruiting openly right now. The application could be found at www.muni.org/assembly. The seats are open to youth ages 16 to 19 and applications are due next week on May 31st.
Memorial Day
Also, as the Mayor noted, Memorial Day is coming right up. And as we look forward to the long weekend, I’d like to remind our community of the annual Memorial Day event, “Anchorage Remembers,” to be held at the Veterans Memorial on the Delaney Park Strip at 09:30AM on Memorial Day. I hope to see many of you there to honor the brave service members have given their lives in defense of our country.
Administrative Matters
Also tonight, members will note that you've received committee assignments on your desk, but mainly that's committee leadership. I think it's going to take a little bit of time for membership to kind of fill out into the committees and for new members to figure out where they want to serve. So this list is not set-in-stone, it's just so that the committees can have their leadership to begin organizing recruiting members and starting to do their business as well.
Tonight, item number 18 is a standing item on our agenda and its executive session. The Municipal Department of Law has requested that we consider the question of shall we convene into executive session over the dinner hour to provide us a briefing on certain legal matters. So as we conclude the consent agenda, we will begin a conversation about that.
May 6, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
Tonight’s Agenda
Tonight, I’d like to give a warm welcome to all the new members who are here for their first full meeting of the Anchorage Assembly. I’d like to specifically welcome Member Brawley in her first full meeting as Vice Chair.
To the new members, I will be going slow tonight, and I'll do my best to help you along, as will your neighbors on the dais, to ensure that you are up to speed on procedures. I know it probably won't be a real issue, but getting up to speed can be really challenging, so if you're unsure of anything, you can always ask point of information from me or talk to your neighbor to get clarification. We'll just work through it as we go. And it won't be long before everybody's up to speed.
Visit with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary
This last week I took a very rapid trip to Washington, D.C., with a delegation from Anchorage and statewide that Senator Sullivan organized – the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, the Balance of State Coalition, the Anchorage Affordable Housing and Land Trust and Cook for Housing Authority – to meet with HUD Secretary Scott Turner.
It was really great meeting. The highlight of the visit was that we're working on figuring out how to address the HUD funding formula, because the HUD funding formula disadvantages small states and Alaska very dramatically. It doesn't reward performance of your local continuum of cares, even though ours in Alaska are very successful in moving people from camps to housing. We have a 90% success rate of moving people out, but we have this continuous flow into the system which proves to be a challenging. And the formula doesn't award funds based on the severity of the issues, it's just a strict overall population-based formula.
And that issue has really disadvantaged us. The City of Houston receives funding at a level of approximately $23,000 per homeless individuals that they support, and we receive less than $2,000 per individual. So, it’s no question why we continue to face what feels like an insurmountable challenge when the funding that should be supporting communities to address the specific challenge of homelessness is just a general welfare program for large cities and that's not an acceptable alternative.
The HUD secretary did make the commitment work really closely and to help work with us to set up a pilot program that will ensure that we don't have to wait many years to see a change. If we can come up with proposal and get it back to the secretary, they will work with us. The Secretary’s staff reached out to me today, which was more than any outreach and from the previous secretaries, so I'm very and heartened that we're going to start to see some response out of D.C. Hopefully, before I leave this body.
Youth Representative Application
Also, for young members of the public, with the departure of our three youth members at the last meeting, we are now recruiting for next year’s class. The application is now open and can be found at
muni.org/assembly. The seats are open for youth ages 16-19 and applications are due May 31. So please get your applications in.
Seasonal Updates
As we approach summer, several municipal departments have some reminders:
- Solid Waste Services wants us all to be “Bear Aware” and secure our trash out of reach of bears and other wildlife, so we can ensure that our wildlife and community can continue to co-exist. They have a great video with tips (and I don’t mind the fact that part of it was filmed in my neighborhood)
- Also, as we approach wildfire season, our Fire Department has been busy helping us all prepare to be safe. They are hosting a Town Hall here at Loussac Library on Monday, May 19 at 6:30pm and there is a community survey available and lots of tips on wildfire safety on their website.
Now is the time for us all to prepare for a safe and fun summer.
City Nerd Nite
Finally, we’re back with another
City Nerd Night next Thursday, May 15. This time, the topic is “Hear Me Out” at King Street Brewing from 6-8pm. Locals have 7 minutes to talk about a topic they are passionate about and we hope to see you there.
April 22, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
Tonight’s Agenda
Tonight, we have a quite a packed agenda and all manner of good things to happen. We’ve had a good rhythm of working through items at recent meetings, so I hope we're able to keep up that pace tonight. We plan to take up the budget as close to 6pm as possible and all the public hearing items will flow from there. Shortly, you'll hear from the Vice Chair with a motion to change the order of the day to get through the items the outgoing members are interested in participating in before we take up the election certification sometime between 8 or 8:30pm. So, from an organizational perspective, we ask for some flexibility so we can get through everything in the order that is needed so that we can meet as many people's needs as possible for outgoing members, as we welcome our new members and their families to celebrate the certification and the swearing in.
Youth Representatives
Tonight is the last meeting for our three fantastic youth representatives Kynnedi Grady, Mika Bell and Bruno Bookman, who have all served admirably and have been great assets to this body.
We had a great tour last week to meet with the administration up in the Mayor's office, as well as our Fire Department, Police Department and Health Department. In the future as this program continues to evolve, we're going to do that part earlier and make sure that the Youth Reps coming forward have an opportunity also visit other municipal departments. I anticipate that there will be a few legislative items coming forward that the youth reps have worked on in the near future on how to shape the program in the future.
To the Youth Reps, we will greatly miss you. Thank you for all the work you've done. And hopefully we see you here in Chambers, and maybe some of you up here on the dais, in the future. We are going to begin recruiting for Youth Representative for 2025-26 school year, so keep your eye out for that on the Assembly web page for announcements from the Associate Ombudsman who has been stewarding of this program.
Passing of Former Assembly Member Tim Steele
I would also like to honor Tim Steele and note that the Assembly plans to take up some honoree action for him, but likely not until June to provide the family an opportunity to grieve, and then come forward to receive an honor for his service to this Municipality.
Port of Alaska
Next, I'd like to briefly talk about the Port of Alaska. This last week we took some momentous steps on the modernization of our Port. It's been years in the making and we arrived at a very substantial milestone last week with the approval of construction for Terminal one, as well as the financial arrangements to make it feasible.
That said, our work is not done. We as a body have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure construction is done in a manner that meets the financial goals the Municipality has set out. We'll continue to have conversations about how we might structure future oversight activities to ensure that the Port construction is delivered to meet the community’s future needs. And while we share great excitement for this project, it's something that hopefully people in our community will never notice as the goal all along has been consistent and affordable delivery of goods without interruption through the Port. This is critical because a 2024 economic study found that service disruptions of the Port would exceed 39 million dollars per week and economic damage to Alaska. With the work last week, we're one step closer to avoiding that potential future.
I want to congratulate everybody who worked on this project. I especially want to recognize both Municipal Manager Wendt Pearson and Chief Administrative Officer Falsey for your exceptional work in the last year to get this project before us. I also want to thank my colleague, friend and partner in this work, Assembly Vice Chair Meg Zaletel. Thank you for your leadership on this issue with this body.
Last Meeting for Outgoing Members.
This is it – the last meeting for our outgoing members. Thank you all for your service. I'll save my remarks for later on when we get to certification, but I do want to again acknowledge my gratitude to the Vice Chair for her service and leadership, as well as to members Sulte, Bronga and Littlefield who stepped up and have led the city over the last three years and more, and also to all the family members of outgoing Assembly Members who made all the sacrifices needed for your family member to participate in this very challenging and amazing work. That makes our community a better place. And to those new members coming in this week, we thank you and your families for your sacrifice that has just begun.
April 8, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
Tonight’s Agenda
Tonight, we have a very long agenda and the culmination of some big projects that members have been working on for a long time. As this current Assembly body comes to a conclusion on April 22, lots will need to be taken care of. Tonight, Members should note any items that need to be done before the end of our business on April 22 and if we don’t get through it all tonight or at the special meeting on April 16th, there may be a need for a Friday meeting. If we work efficiently tonight, we can hopefully avoid that need, but tentatively, a special meeting is scheduled for April 16th, but if we don’t get it all done then, we may need to extend that meeting to Friday.
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Presentation
Yesterday afternoon, I presented the Assembly’s annual Progress Report to the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce and I shared our accomplishments from 2024 and our plans for the upcoming year. Our 2024 highlights include housing, Port of Alaska modernization, getting the Mobile Crisis Team to 24/7 service, and helping neighbors solve problems that vex them in their daily lives. In the year ahead, we’ll be working on housing– cutting red tape, funding rental assistance and hotel conversions, tax incentives to get the housing we need. We’ll also work on Eklutna River restoration, fixing HUD issues and on and on.
The year ahead will be an interesting challenge as we continue to face uncertainty and chaos coming out of Washington. Thankfully the local government is strong and we will continue to be a steady hand on the till.
Elections
Last week, we concluded another successful Vote at Home operation. All ballots have been cast that are legally allowed to be counted and all things are going smoothly in the process. We maintained a high standard that Anchorage elections demands for its elections for transparency and access. Turnout was steady for an Assembly-year election – we’re expecting about 62,000 ballots cast and 60 to 65 thousand ballots is average for a vote at home election with Assembly races.
The voters approved of all but two of the bonds and levies, which shows that Anchorage still believes in itself and wants to invest in making our community a better place to live. Certification and swearing in of new members is on 4/22, which is our next regular meeting. It will probably happen later in the evening after we take care of the budget and other matters.
Education Funding
Last week, the Assembly held a special meeting to approve the School District’s Budget and I’ve said it before, but it was incredibly sobering to hear just how bad the school district’s financial challenges are in light of years and years of reduced state funding. If the State isn’t able to deliver adequate funding to our schools, we are going to see 558 positions eliminated next month, and that includes librarians, library assistants, nurses, counselors and principals, and cuts to activities, programs and electives like IGNITE, Special Education, Immersion, Summer School and Battle of the Books and the West High theatre program. All of this is on top of the need for higher classroom sizes that are being forced on our community.
The Assembly passed the budget, but this is really in the hands of the Alaska Legislature and the Governor to fix this enduring problem and get our schools back on track.
March 18, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
National League of Cities Conference
Last week, several of us attended the National League of Cities Congressional Conference in Washington D.C. and held meetings with the members of the Alaska delegation to Congress. I’ll leave it to Member Brawley to address that topic in her committee report.
Elections
Last week, ballot packages were mailed to all qualified Anchorage Voters for the April 1, 2025 Regular Municipal Election.
If you haven’t yet received your ballot, please call the Voter Hotline – that’s 907-243-VOTE – to order a replacement ballot. The Accessible Voting Centers open next week if you would like to vote in person.
As I’ve said before, Anchorage has one of the best voting systems in the country and we can all be really proud of the transparency, accessibility and security of Anchorage elections. In the past year, the Election Team has added equipment to make it easier for people with disabilities to vote and has advised the State Legislature on ways the state can improve their elections.
Education Funding
Tonight, the Assembly will take up the hearing on the Anchorage School District budget. We have through April 3rd to past the budget. As I mentioned last week, when it comes to this year’s school budget, the Assembly’s power is very limited.
Essentially, we can vote to approve the budget, approve it with reductions, or not approve it at all. If we don’t approve the budget at our next meeting, it will go into effect anyway as an operation of code. The Alaska Constitution sets the maximum local contribution, and the Municipality invests the maximum allowed annually, so there’s no way for us to increase the budget.
However, the Assembly has been hearing from a lot of people who have voiced their concerns and unhappiness with the School District’s proposed budget. This budget is shocking and devesting to our community. It will be devestating if you participate in charter schools, if you participate in after school activities, if you participate in sports.
For those of you who are concerned about this, I encourage you to join the Assembly in contacting your legislators and the Governor and to keep the heat on them to increase school funding.
Special Assembly Meeting
Finally, I want to give everyone an early forewarning that we may have a need to add a special meeting to the Assembly calendar in the next few weeks. If we are not able to hold a vote on the School District budget tonight, we will hold a special meeting in the next few weeks, likely April 2nd, the last day we have statutorily to act on it. Additionally, there are several big items that our current body has been working on that might not be dispensed with before the April 22nd meeting, so there could potentially be a second special meeting to wrap up projects.
March 4, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
It’s a rare occurrence to have two Assembly Meetings scheduled on back-to-back Tuesdays, and I appreciate everyone’s accommodating this schedule as we look forward to spring break.
Elections
Here in Anchorage, spring break is synonymous with our local elections season. This week, the MOA Elections Team is getting ready to receive tens of thousands of ballots for the April 1, 2025 Regular Municipal Election.
Ballot packages will be sent to all qualified Anchorage Voters next week on March 11 and the last day of voting is Tuesday, April 1. Secure drop boxes open on March 12 and Anchorage Vote Centers will open on March 25.
It’s a big election with six Assembly seats, two school board seats, and many service area board seats on the ballot, as well as nine bond propositions, two levies and four service area propositions.
As I’ve said before, Anchorage has one of the best voting systems in the country and we can all be really proud of the transparency, accessibility and security of Anchorage elections. In the past year, the Election Team has added equipment to make it easier for people with disabilities to vote and has advised the State Legislature on ways the state can improve their elections.
Don’t forget to sign up for Ballot Tracks – you can get text, email, or voicemail notifications when your ballot package is mailed out, when it is received by USPS if returning by mail, when it arrives at the Election Center, and if your ballot package is counted or if it requires curing.
To learn more about the elections and sign up for Ballot Tracks, go to muni.org/elections.
Anchorage School District Budget
Next, we have the introduction of the Anchorage School District budget tonight, which will be heard at our next meeting when the Assembly will take up the School District’s budget for approval. We’ve received comments from people in our community who are justifiably concerned about school funding. Our schools have been underfunded for a decade and our education system is truly suffering.
However, when it comes to this year’s school budget, the Assembly’s power is very limited. Essentially, we can vote to approve the budget, approve it with reductions, or not approve it at all. If we don’t approve the budget at our next meeting, it will go into effect anyway as an operation of code.
As to increasing the budget, the Alaska Constitution sets the maximum local contribution, so the state caps the amount of funding local governments can contribute to school districts and the Municipality has invested the maximum allowed amount every year I’ve been on the body.
I say all of this to let school supporters know that while the Assembly cannot increase the school budget, we have been advocating to the Legislature for increased funding for many years, including it as a priority in our legislative program and issuing resolutions of support to the legislature. While we want to continue to hear from you on your concern for school funding, I also urge you to take this to the people who have the power on this issue – your legislators and especially the Governor.
Executive Appointments
Tonight, the body will consider confirming three Mayoral appointments for top leadership positions in the Municipality. We held confirmation hearings for those candidates on Friday, and you can watch the recordings on the MOA Meetings YouTube channel.
To the appointees, thank you for your time on Friday and thank you to you and your families for being here tonight. I intend to ask my colleagues to change the order of the day to take up the confirmations – items 10 D 1 thru 4 – as early in the meeting as possible.
February 25, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
Elections
I want to start with a reminder that the last day to register or update your voter registration for the upcoming municipal elections is this Sunday, March 2nd. You can register to vote by visiting the State of Alaska Division of Election online.
Yesterday, February 24, 2025, 1,385 ballot packaged were mailed to military and overseas voters. On March 11, Municipal Elections will send out 204,493 ballot packages to all qualified Anchorage Voters. The last day of voting is Tuesday, April 1, with voting ending at 8:00 p.m. This election incudes six Assembly seats, two school board seats, and many service area board seats, as well as nine bond propositions, two levies and four service area propositions.
Anchorage has one of the best voting systems in the country and we can all be really proud of the transparency, accessibility and security of Anchorage elections. In the past year, the Election Team has added equipment to make it easier for people with disabilities to vote and has advised the State Legislature on ways the state can improve their elections.
One of the tools Anchorage elections use to increase transparency and accessibility is Ballot Tracks. It's an amazing tool where you can get text, email, or voicemail notifications when your ballot package is mailed out, when it is received by USPS if returning by mail, when it arrives at the Election Center, and if your ballot package is counted or if it requires curing.
You can register to vote by visiting the State of Alaska Division of Election online and you can learn more about the elections and sign up for Ballot Tracks at muni.org/elections.
Federal Workers
Next, I want to extend my support to the federal workers who have lost their jobs in recent weeks. From working with municipal employees all these years, I know that public sector workers care deeply about their communities and often sacrifice opportunities for higher pay and advancement to do the important work of providing critical services to our communities.
The loss of this many jobs is a huge blow to the fabric of our community, our public health and safety, and our local economy. We now have hundreds of workers who will struggle to pay their rent and mortgages and will have less disposable income to spend on local businesses. And now we have critical jobs to deliver federal services, fight forest fires, and protect our community that will go unfilled. My heart goes out to those workers and their families during this difficult time.
For those workers who find themselves unemployed and have a passion for hard work and community service, I encourage you to visit muni.org to see the jobs we have open at the Municipality. We have a number of job openings and would welcome the wealth of experience and knowledge that former federal employees would bring to the job.
Assembly Annual Workplan
Tonight, we have before us the Assembly's Annual Workplan that the Assembly has put together in our recent Rules Committee meetings. Each year we go through this process to help us focus our workload on the most pressing issues for our community.
And while any member may introduce their own legislation at any time, and new issues come up throughout the year, you will see the majority of our work this year focused on the Assembly's 2025 priorities, which are: Housing Action; Energy, Infrastructure and Transportation; Public Health, Safety and Quality of Life; and Good Government.
An important note is that the project list in the workplan is a compilation of individual member priority projects and does not necessarily represent the priorities of all Assembly Members. By adopting the workplan, Members are committing to support their colleagues' pursuit of their priorities, but are not endorsing each individual project.
While the Members on this body have very different viewpoints and political backgrounds, we have found that by coming together to develop a workplan, we can find opportunities for collaboration in the areas that are most important to our community. Not every item in this plan will make it to adoption, but by creating a method for everyone's ideas to come forward, we enable this body to be more collaborative, more productive and more responsive to community needs.
The plan and more information on the Assembly's priorities and current projects can be found at muni.org/assembly.
Nerd Nite
Last week, the Assembly held another City Nerd Nite. This time it was on the topic of “Won't You Be My Neighbor?" in collaboration with Anchorage Design Week and featured seven locals talking about their neighborhood-related work. City Nerd Nites are a great way to make new connections, meet new people and learn more about local government and our community.
If you missed it, you can watch the 7-minute presentations on the MOA Meetings YouTube page.
February 11, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
Juneau Visit
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go to Juneau to advocate for Anchorage’s legislative priorities, alongside Members Brawley and Johnson, and the Mayor and her team.
Our meetings with legislators went well and there is a lot of shared interest in the Municipality’s priorities of:
- Adequate funding of snow removal on state roads
- Securing our energy future
- Stabilizing funding for public schools
- Restoring defined benefit pensions for public employees
We also had great conversations about building more housing, improving state elections, improving the state’s mental health care system and addressing the threat of wildfires. I’m looking forward to working with the Anchorage delegation to the legislature over the coming session.
For more information about what we’re focused on this legislative session, visit www.muni.org/akleg.
Public Discourse
Next, as we grapple with the chaos and division coming out of our federal government, I’m heartened by the
findings of a recent study. An organization called More in Common recently released survey findings that indicate Americans want to foster a climate of understanding. Here’s what stood out to me:
- Most Americans want to connect with neighbors, even if they supported different candidates.
- Most (61%) say they want their political perspectives understood by those different than them.
- 3 in 4 Americans (75%) are open to listening to those with different political views.
I think you can agree that these findings reflect what I see in Anchorage. While there is a national narrative that we are a country divided, when I look at our own community, and our municipal government, I see people putting their political differences aside to work for the common good.
The big issues we are grappling with, like housing scarcity, energy security, and affordable delivery of our goods through the Port are not Democratic or Republican issues, they are community issues. I’m proud to see our community coming together to develop creative solutions to our shared problems and I hope we can continue the spirit of cooperation no matter what happens on the federal level.
January 21, 2025
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Good evening everyone and welcome to our regular business meeting.
MLK Weekend
Yesterday I presented the Assembly Resolution recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to the Alaska Black Caucus at the Third Annual MLK Cultural Solidarity Celebration. As I was standing in the room, surrounded by people of all walks of life, I had the profound sense that, despite all that divides our country, Anchorage is coming together.
We each have a choice to build lasting and meaningful relationships, to respect and appreciate our neighbors, and to work together toward Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of a beloved community. While everything happening on the national stage feels out of reach, this community is in our hands.
Which is why it's important to keep local government accessible to everyone who lives here.
Assembly Meetings in High Definition / Cancelation of GCI's Yukon TV
To that end, we have some big changes coming up for public municipal meetings held in the Assembly Chambers, beginning February 11.
After more than 40 years of recording in standard definition, municipal meetings in the Assembly Chambers will now be in high definition, providing a clearer view into the work of the Assembly and the boards that meet in Chambers. This investment reflects our commitment to transparency and accessibility, ensuring the public can engage with their local government with 21st Century technology.
Additionally, due to GCI's discontinuation of Yukon TV, the Municipality of Anchorage will no longer broadcast on Channel 9 after February 11. We encourage everyone to tune in by subscribing to the MOA Meetings YouTube Channel at youtube.com/@moameetings. This platform offers a convenient and user-friendly way to view live and archived municipal meetings anytime, anywhere.
First Meeting
This is the first meeting of the New Year and it’s going to be a full agenda. Hopefully, we get through everything tonight, but if we don’t, we will continue the meeting tomorrow evening, starting at 6pm, here in Assembly Chambers. I want to make sure we have ample time, so we don’t have to rush through really important matters. With that said, my remarks tonight will be short so we can get to the work in front of us.
Assembly Meetings in High Definitions/Cancelation of GCI’s Yukon TV
In regard to our meeting broadcasts, we have some big changes coming up for public municipal meetings held in the Assembly Chambers, beginning February 11.
After more than 40 years of recording in standard definition, municipal meetings in the Assembly Chambers will now be in high definition, providing a clearer view into the work of the Assembly and the boards that meet in Chambers. This investment reflects our commitment to transparency and accessibility, ensuring the public can engage with their local government with 21st Century technology.
Additionally, due to GCI’s discontinuation of Yukon TV, the Municipality of Anchorage will no longer broadcast on Channel 9 after February 11. We encourage everyone to tune in by subscribing to the MOA Meetings YouTube Channel at youtube.com/@moameetings. This platform offers a convenient and user-friendly way to view live and archived municipal meetings anytime, anywhere.
Martin Luther King Day Free Legal Help
Later this month, on January 20th, there is community event that is near and dear to my heart. It is the Alaska Bar Association’s MLK Free Legal Help Day. The event will take place at the Mountain View Boys and Girls Club on Monday, January 20th from 12-4pm, as well as locations across the state. This is where the Alaska Bar Association, Alaska Court System, Alaska Legal Services Corporation and local bar associations offer free legal consultation with volunteer attorneys to confidentially answer questions on Alaska-based civil legal issues for low to moderate income Alaskans attend a first come, first served basis.
The legal system is daunting to most of us, and for those with limited financial resources, it is even harder to access. If you have limited financial resources and are struggling with an issue with your landlord, child support, your place of employment or any other issue that you think my have a legal aspect, I strongly encourage you to attend this event and get the support you need and deserve. And to the attorneys of our community, I thank you for providing this valuable service and if you haven’t signed up to help, contact the Bar Association to see how you can get involved.