Assembly - Regular
6/10/2025 5:00:00 PM


1. CALL TO ORDER

2. ROLL CALL

3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

4. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

4.A. Regular Meeting - April 22, 2025
4.B. Regular Meeting - May 6, 2025
4.C. Regular Meeting - May 20, 2025 (Addendum.)
4.D. Special Meeting - May 30, 2025 (Addendum.)

5. MAYOR'S REPORT

6. ASSEMBLY CHAIR'S REPORT

7. COMMITTEE AND LIAISON REPORTS

8. ADDENDUM TO AGENDA

9. APPEARANCE REQUESTS

9.A. Michael Patterson.

10. CONSENT AGENDA

10.A. RESOLUTIONS FOR ACTION - PROCLAMATIONS AND RECOGNITIONS

10.A.1. Resolution No. AR 2025-179, a resolution of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly proclaiming June 21st as ALS Awareness Day in Anchorage. Assembly Member Volland.
10.A.2. Resolution No. AR 2025-184, a resolution of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly recognizing June 20, 2025 as World Refugee Day. Assembly Chair Constant, Assembly Vice Chair Brawley, Members Baldwin Day, Goecker, Johnson, Martinez, McCormick, Perez-Verdia, Rivera, Silvers and Volland and Mayor LaFrance.
10.A.3. Resolution No. AR 2025-185, a resolution of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly recognizing and celebrating June 2025 as Pride Month in Anchorage. Assembly Chair Constant, Assembly Vice-Chair Brawley, Assembly Members Baldwin Day, Johnson, Martinez, Perez-Verdia, Rivera, Silvers and Volland.
10.A.4. Resolution No. AR 2025-187, a resolution of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly recognizing and celebrating June 19, 2025 as Juneteenth in Anchorage. Assembly Chair Constant, Assembly Vice Chair Brawley, Members Baldwin Day, Goecker, Johnson, Martinez, Perez-Verdia, Rivera, Silvers and Volland and Mayor LaFrance.

10.B. RESOLUTIONS FOR ACTION - OTHER

10.B.1. Resolution No. AR 2025-191, a resolution of the Anchorage Assembly recognizing an ongoing public health and safety crisis resulting from systemic failures in the State of Alaska’s behavioral health system, acknowledging its disproportionate impact on Anchorage’s communities and economy, and directing the Municipal Attorney to pursue all legal remedies. Assembly Member Martinez. (Addendum.)
10.B.2. Resolution No. AR 2025-192, a resolution of the Anchorage Assembly strongly encouraging the Administration and the Anchorage Health Department to develop a dedicated strategy for engaging individuals living unsheltered who suffer from untreated serious mental illness or behavioral health conditions, and to collaborate with partners to advance health-based interventions and stabilization facilities. Assembly Member Martinez. (Addendum.)

10.C. BID AWARDS

10.C.1. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 467-2025, Recommendation of Award of a purchase order with Swickard Chevrolet to provide eight 2025 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD Trucks with Knapheide Service Bodies for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility (AWWU), Not to Exceed (NTE) $570,864.00.
10.C.2. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 473-2025, Recommendation of Award of a contract with North Star Fire Protection (NSFP) to provide fire sprinkler system inspections and maintenance for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Maintenance and Operations Department (M&O), Not to Exceed (NTE) $1,250,000.00.
10.C.3. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 479-2025, Recommendation of Award for a contract with Premier Electric LLC (Premier) for headquarters lighting upgrades, for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility (AWWU) (ITB 2025C008) ($598,565.00). (Addendum.)
10.C.4. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 483-2025, Recommendation of Award to Quality Asphalt Paving (QAP) for Dowling Road Surface Rehabilitation, Lake Otis Pkwy to Elmore Rd, PM&E Project No. 22-12, for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Project Management & Engineering Department (PM&E) (Invitation to Bid 2025C028) ($2,012,851.86). (Addendum.)

10.D. NEW BUSINESS

10.D.1. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 455-2025, Grant Agreement with Volunteers of America Alaska (VOA) for Adolescent Residential Center for Help (ARCH) security door upgrade with the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Health Department (AHD) (Not to Exceed (NTE) $100,000.00).
10.D.2. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 456-2025, Sole Source Contract with Midwest Tape LLC to provide one year of Hoopla Media on Demand products for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Public Library (APL), Not to Exceed (NTE) $340,000.00.
10.D.3. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 457-2025, Sole Source purchase with Alaska Roteq to furnish a Franklin Taskmaster Grinder to the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility Department (AWWU), Not to Exceed (NTE) $81,285.02.
10.D.4. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 460-2025, Amendment No. 2 to the professional engineering services contract with Tetra Tech, Inc. for the Anchorage Regional Landfill Leachate Upgrade Project for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Solid Waste Services (SWS) (2021000619) ($1,150,000.00).
10.D.5. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 461-2025, Cooperative Purchase with NC Machinery through State of Alaska (SOA) Contract #CA2403-24 for three 2024 Caterpillar 140 motor graders for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Maintenance & Operations Department (M&O), Not to Exceed (NTE) $948,567.00.
10.D.6. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 463-2025, Executive Appointment (Mark W. Spafford, Director of Anchorage Hydropower Utility) Municipal Managers Office.
10.D.7. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 466-2025, Americans with Disabilities Act Advisory Commission Appointment (Bridger Reed-Lewis). Mayor’s Office.
10.D.8. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 471-2025, Anchorage Equal Rights Commission Appointment (Stephanie Harrod). Mayor’s Office.
10.D.9. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 468-2025, Rockhill Limited Road Service Area (LRSA) Board of Supervisors Appointment (Eugene Desjarlais). Mayor’s Office.
10.D.10. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 469-2025, Birch Tree/Elmore Limited Road Service Area (LRSA) Board of Supervisors Appointment (Brandon M. Unger). Mayor’s Office.
10.D.11. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 470-2025, Sequoia Estates Limited Road Service Area (LRSA) Board of Supervisors Appointment (Brett Bingham). Mayor’s Office.
10.D.12. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 465-2025, 2025-2026 Alcohol License Renewals: Beverage Dispensary Tourism License: Hyatt Place Anchorage, #5794; Recreational Site License: Frosted Axe Throwing, #6164. Municipal Clerk’s Office, (Midtown, North Star Community Councils)
10.D.13. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 475-2025, Recommendation of Award of a Contract to MASH Property Management LLC (MASH) for non-congregate shelter operation services for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Health Department (AHD), (Request for Proposal (RFP) 2025PO18) (Not to Exceed (NTE $2,309,568.000). Anchorage Health Department. (Addendum.)
10.D.14. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 480-2025, Recommendation of Award to Electric Power Constructors (EPC) to provide design/build services for the Electrical Substation Project for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Port of Anchorage Modernization Project (PAMP) (RFP 2025P003) ($25,646,315.73). Port of Alaska. (Addendum.)
10.D.15. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 481-2025, Amendment No. 6 to contract with Vera Whole Health, Inc. (Vera) to provide annual medical screenings and medical evaluations for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Fire Department (AFD), (Not to Exceed (NTE) $100,000.00). (Addendum.)
10.D.16. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 484-2025, Amendment No. 1 to the contract with Marsh McLennan Agency, LLC (MMA) to provide professional insurance brokerage services to the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Risk Management Division (Not to Exceed (NTE) $970,000). Chief Administrative Office. (Addendum.)

10.E. APPROPRIATION ITEMS

10.E.1. Resolution No. AR 2025-180, a resolution of the Municipality of Anchorage appropriating a reimbursable grant of up to eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500) from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Retail Flexible Funding Model (RFFM) Grant, track 2 development base, to the Federal Grant Fund (241900) for the completion of the Standardization Plan (standards 1-8) within the Municipality of Anchorage Health Department. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 458-2025.
10.E.2. Resolution No. AR 2025-188, a resolution of the Municipality of Anchorage appropriating a reimbursable grant for sixty thousand nine hundred seventy dollars ($60,970) from the State of Alaska, Department of Transportation and appropriating a transfer of one thousand three hundred forty-one dollars ($1,341) from the Anchorage Metropolitan Police Service Area Fund (151000), Anchorage Police Department 2025 Operating Budget, all to the State Grants Fund (231) Anchorage Police Department for impaired driving enforcement. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 474-2025.
10.E.3. Resolution No. AR 2025-190, a resolution of the Municipality of Anchorage appropriating a reimbursable grant when tendered in the amount of two million four hundred twenty-two thousand eight hundred and six dollars ($2,422,806) of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant COVID-19 Relief (CDBG-CV) from the State of Alaska Department of Commerce as a Reimbursable Grant to the State Grants Fund (231900) to operate Non-Congregate Shelter (NCS) services in the Anchorage Health Department. (Addendum.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 477-2025.

10.F. INFORMATION AND REPORTS

10.F.1. Information Memorandum No. AIM 117-2025, 2024-2025 Warming Center Operations Update. Mayor’s Office.
10.F.2. Information Memorandum No. AIM 118-2025, Internal Audit Report 2025-03 Anchorage Equal Rights Commission Anchorage Assembly. Office of Internal Audit.
10.F.3. Information Memorandum No. AIM 119-2025, Multi-Agency Report: Taking Action to Prevent Roadway Deaths, Month 6 Update for May 2025. Traffic Department.
10.F.4. Information Memorandum No. AIM 120-2025, Public Testimony for May 20 and June 10, 2025 Meetings. Municipal Clerk’s Office. (Addendum.)

10.G. ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS FOR INTRODUCTION

10.G.1. Resolution No. AR 2025-181, a resolution of the Municipality of Anchorage appropriating two million one hundred fifty-three thousand dollars ($2,153,000) from earnings within the MOA Trust Fund (730000) for expert financial management and support services provided in calendar year 2025. Finance Department. P.H. 6-24-2025. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 459-2025.
10.G.2. Resolution No. AR 2025-186, a resolution of the Municipality of Anchorage re-appropriating an amount not to exceed five million six hundred thousand dollars ($5,600,000) of bond proceeds from the sale of the 2024 Port Revenue Bonds Series A for the payment of bond issuance costs, from the Port of Alaska Capital Improvement Fund (570800) to the 2024 Port of Alaska Operating Fund (570000). Finance Department. P.H. 6-24-2025. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 472-2025.
10.G.3. Resolution No. AR 2025-189, a resolution of the Municipality of Anchorage appropriating opioid settlement proceeds in an amount not to exceed two million four hundred three thousand five hundred sixteen dollars ($2,403,516), to the Opioid Settlement Fund (207000), Anchorage Health Department and revising the Anchorage Community Development Authority (ACDA) 2025 Operating Budget and 2025 Capital Improvement Budget all for allowable opioid remediation uses. Anchorage Health Department. P.H. 6-24-2025. (Addendum.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 476-2025.
10.G.4. Ordinance No. AO 2025-71, an ordinance authorizing the disposal of HLB Parcels 4-046 and 4-047, also known as the former Alaska Native Service Hospital site, and legally described as Block 35 and Lot 2, Block 36 East Addition to the Anchorage Townsite, by non-competitive 20-year ground lease with conditions to Anchorage Community Development Authority. Real Estate Department. P.H. 6-24-2025. (Addendum.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 478-2025.
10.G.5. Ordinance No. AO 2025-72, an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 21.05.070 to define and regulate bee colonies and waiving Planning and Zoning Commission review of certain provisions. Assembly Member Silvers. P.H. 6-24-2025. (Addendum.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 485-2025.
10.G.6. Ordinance No. AO 2025-73, an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 2.30, Rules of Procedure for Assembly, to clarify the procedures for the Chair granting appearance requests and to make a motion to postpone indefinitely nondebatable when it closes the public hearing on an agenda item. Assembly Member Rivera and Assembly Chair Constant. P.H. 6-24-2025. (Addendum.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 486-2025.
10.G.7. Ordinance No. AO 2025-74, an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 8.05 and Sections 8.45.015 and 15.20.020 to prohibit camping on public premises by providing criminal penalties and enforcement protocols consistent with city of Grants Pass v. Johnson and other law. Assembly Members McCormick, Goecker, And Myers. P.H. 6-24-2025. (Addendum.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 487-2025.

11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS AND UNFINISHED ACTION ON PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS

11.A. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 346-2025, Approval of three-year shelter licenses for Anchorage Rescue Gospel Mission, Brother Francis Shelter, Clare House, Complex Care and Covenant House. Anchorage Health Department. (ACTION POSTPONED FROM 4-22-2025.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 346-2025(A), Approval of three-year shelter licenses for Anchorage Rescue Gospel Mission, Brother Francis Shelter, Clare House, Complex Care and Covenant House. Anchorage Health Department.
11.B. Resolution No. AR 2025-159, a resolution of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly adopting the Anchorage Economic Development Framework - Core Principles as a guiding approach to strategic investment, local resilience, and fair opportunity for all residents. Assembly Member Martinez. Information Memorandum No. AIM 110-2025. (ACTION POSTPONED FROM 5-6-2025.)
11.C. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 431-2025, Amendment No.1 with Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. to provide strategic planning for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility (AWWU), Not to Exceed (NTE) $281,707.00. (ACTION POSTPONED FROM 5-20-2025.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 431-2025(A), Amendment No.1 [PO2024000627] with Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. to provide strategic planning for the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA), Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility (AWWU), Not to Exceed (NTE) $217,417.00 [$281,707.00]. (Addendum.)

12. RESERVED

13. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARINGS

14. NEW PUBLIC HEARINGS

14.A. Resolution No. AR 2025-158, a resolution approving administrative agreement AA # 2025-01 between the Municipality of Anchorage and the Anchorage Police Department Employees Association agreeing to wages for the Police Clerk III classification. Human Resources Department. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 412-2025.
14.B. Ordinance No. AO 2025-63, an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 21.05.010 to allow self-storage uses within a B-3 Zoning District only if reviewed and approved as a conditional use and waiving Planning and Zoning Commission review of certain provisions. Assembly Member Rivera. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 421-2025. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 482-2025. (Addendum.)
14.C. Ordinance No. AO 2025-64, an ordinance amending Anchorage Municipal Code Chapters 21.03, 21.04, and 21.07 to change standards related to site access, building frontage, driveway, and how private properties connect to the public street. (Planning and Zoning Commission Case No. 2025-0018). Planning Department, Mayor LaFrance, Assembly Vice Chair Brawley, and Assembly Member Volland. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 422-2025. Information Memorandum No. AIM 121-2025, Letter of Support for AO 2025-64, Site Access Update. Assembly Vice Chair Brawley and Assembly Member Volland. (Addendum.)
14.D. Ordinance No. AO 2025-65, an ordinance authorizing the extension of a lease by exercising the second of two (2) three-year options to extend between the Municipality of Anchorage (Landlord) and Alaska Pediatric Therapy (Tenant), an Alaska Limited Liability Company, for a portion of the Eagle River Town Center located at 12001 Business Boulevard in Eagle River (PID 050-111-22-001). Real Estate Services. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 424-2025.
14.E. Ordinance No. AO 2025-66, an ordinance of the Anchorage Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 8.35.416 to update the age that employees may sell, serve, deliver, or dispense alcoholic beverages within a premises licensed for the retail sale of alcohol and clarify the provisions for persons under 21 years of age to be present on a licenses premises; and general cleanup removing references to AS 04.11 and updating with “AS Title 04.” Assembly Vice-Chair Brawley and Assembly Members Goecker and Martinez. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 442-2025
14.F. Resolution No. AR 2025-175, a resolution of the Municipality of Anchorage appropriating two million three hundred thousand dollars ($2,300,000) as a transfer from the Equipment Maintenance Internal Service Fund (601000) Unrestricted Net Position to the Equipment Maintenance Internal Service Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) Fund (601800) all within the Maintenance & Operations Department, to purchase replacement vehicles and equipment. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 445-2025.
14.G. Ordinance No. AO 2025-67, an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Sections 1.15.090, 3.30.169 and 3.30.1511 to clarify certain municipal employees’ right to serve in public office at the state level, and waiving Personnel Rules Committee review. Assembly Chair Constant. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 446-2025.
14.H. Ordinance No. AO 2025-68, an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 10.50.036 to reverse the amendments to it by AO 2024-101(S), As Amended, and require mandatory ID checks for the sale of alcohol only at package stores, and repealing AMC Section 10.50.007 regarding the powers and duties of the municipal clerk and law enforcement to inspect licensed premises of alcohol establishments. Assembly Members Myers, Silvers, and Volland. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 448-2025. Ordinance No. AO 2025-68(S), an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 10.50.036 to reverse the amendments to it by AO 2024-101(S), As Amended, and require mandatory ID checks for the sale of alcohol only at package stores[, and repealing AMC Section 10.50.007 regarding the powers and duties of the municipal clerk and law enforcement to inspect licensed premises of alcohol establishments]. Assembly Members Silvers and Volland. (Addendum.) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 488-2025.
14.I. Ordinance No. AO 2025-69, an ordinance of the Anchorage Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Chapter 11.70 to establish permanent free fares for persons under 18 years of age on People Mover Transit and to update definitions, fare categories and rates accordingly. Assembly Member Martinez. Assembly Memorandum No. AM 449-2025.

15. QUASI-JUDICIAL OR ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS AND SPECIAL ORDERS

15.A. Resolution No. AR 2025-182, a resolution of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly approving a marijuana license and special land use permit for Croy’s Enterprises, LLC, a marijuana retail sales establishment with license number M39109, doing business as Pine Street Cannabis Company, and located at 3601 Arctic Boulevard, Suite B, in the B-3 District, within Lot 1, Block 1, Springer Subdivision; generally located east of Arctic Boulevard, south of West 36th Avenue, west of Springer Street, north of West 40th Avenue, in Anchorage. Planning Department, (Midtown Community Council) (Case 2025-0057) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 462-2025.
15.B. Resolution No. AR 2025-183, a resolution of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly approving a marijuana license and special land use permit for Catalyst Retail, LLC, a marijuana retail sales establishment with license number M31417, doing business as Catalyst Cannabis Company, located at 5305 East Northern Lights Boulevard, in the B-3 District, within Tract B1, Township 13 North Range 3 West Section 22; generally located north of east Northern Lights Boulevard, east of Glacier Street, south of East 26th Avenue and west of Boniface Parkway, in Anchorage. Planning Department. (Russian Jack Community Council) (Case 2025-0054) Assembly Memorandum No. AM 464-2025.

16. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

17. ASSEMBLY COMMENTS

18. EXECUTIVE SESSIONS

19. ADJOURNMENT