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Hoping to attract and retain more workers, the Municipality of Anchorage expanded remote work options to the Anchorage Municipal Employees Association, a union of about 500 staff.
Farina Brown, special assistant in homelessness and health for Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance, is tasked with tackling some of the city’s most complex challenges.
The city is preparing to open 500 emergency winter shelter beds next month.
The city has five years to complete the project, which aims to improve safety along a 1.5-mile stretch of Bragaw Street, between the Glenn Highway and Northern Lights Boulevard.
Anchorage Assembly Vice Chair Meg Zaletel has represented Midtown since 2019. She will not be running for a third term.
The city is planning to open 500 winter shelter beds in late October, according to a top administration official.
The Anchorage Assembly’s measure calls for short-term rental online platforms to give the city information on the numbers of rentals, their locations and the types of units rented, among other information.
The Ombudsman’s office determined that it is “unfair and unreasonable” to charge the owners $125 to get their belongings when a vehicle is impounded under public safety laws.
In 2023, Anchorage voters dedicated all of the city’s marijuana tax revenue to boost child care and early education programs. City leaders will soon decide how to best spend the money for 2025.
The Next Step initiative has moved 177 people into housing and provides them a year of rent assistance and case management support.
A statement issued Friday by the union president followed reforms announced by the mayor and police chief after an officer shot and killed a 16-year-old girl this week.
Police said they received multiple calls reporting that a man was firing a shotgun from a Chevy pickup truck near the 3300 block of Eagle Street just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday.
The mayor’s office said the administration is reviewing and considering the suggestions made by three community teams that focused on “safe streets and trails,” “building our future” and “good government.”
Church leaders say the encampment shows why the shelter village is needed. Neighbors want the city to clear out the encampment, worried it will harm the project.
Business owners say the new encampment has brought a surge of problems and crime to the area. Homeless residents say they moved there because they had nowhere else to go.