Mandatory ID Check Passes Assembly, Memorial Weekend Crackdown

Andrea Gusty's exclusive interview with Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan. They discuss homeless camp eviction notices, the Port of Anchorage and the return of ML&P and AWWU to the muni.

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By Andrea Gusty

Story Created: May 26, 2011 at 1:59 PM AKDT

Story Updated: Aug 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM AKDT

Anchorage Assembly

Alcohol

  • Mandatory ID Check
  • Ethics board, ownership interest in bar/restaurant

Utilities - ML&P and AWWU

  • Up to six months for transition of police, procedures
  • Coming back under municipal oversight
  • Day to day operations won’t change
  • Still looking for cost cuts and efficiencies
  • IT systems, payroll and purchasing function consolidation
  • Encouraging efficiencies in every department

Homeless camp eviction notices

  • Over 100 notices posted
  • Finding them work, shelter and treatment
  • Top public safety priority
  • Concern for campers and patrons
  • 15-day notice, no storing of possessions
  • Work with Salvation Army and slow process of assigning responsibilities

Port of Anchorage

  • Corps of engineers
  • Old part butting up against new
  • About two feet of silt building up every week, must be dredged
  • Full dock expansion plan
  • Confidence of funders
  • Piling problems

OUIs, Memorial Day weekend crackdown

  • Operating under the influence
  • 24-hour bars, staggered closing times
  • Scarcity of cabs with unstaggered bar closing time

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Kevin said on Thursday, May 26 at 8:02 PM

During the winter, you should be able to keep warm in your car, drunk or not. We had 24hr bars. It caused enough problems to have closing hours established. Don't go back to a failed system.

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