The Anchorage Municipal Naming Commission met on September 11, 2025, but lacked a quorum, so no official business or votes could be conducted. The commission discussed several agenda items, including draft goals and strategies, a submission form for naming requests, a proposed calendar of activities, and potential renaming projects. Members also addressed the need to recruit additional commissioners to achieve a quorum and planned actions for the next meeting.
From Texas because I wasn't used to snow, but the community grew up over the years. And like you, Kevin, I I was concerned about how the city has been naming for the last few decades. And Cameron Peruzver D and I started talking about four years ago and started looking at what other communities were doing and realized that we need to change the naming system and that we had in code. So I'm excited to be part of this commission. And I think we're gonna we have a lot of good work to do in the community. So thank you for joining us. And Jane, you want to introduce yourself. And my husband works for First National, and he got another opportunity to promotion to get another job else in Q9. So I went down to K9 and I eventually became the clerk down there, and then another opportunity came back to Anchorage. Woohoo! And I have I'm happy you came back to get to work with you. So we don't have a quorum, so we can't conduct official business, but we can do like the same as we did at the last couple of meetings and discuss the items on the agenda. And we can't approve the agenda. We can't make but we can add things to our discussion. So we need to we need to discuss the calendar, which is not listed on the agenda. And then we need to talk about electing a vice chair. We can obviously can't elect the vice chair, but we can discuss it for uh uh item action item for the next meeting. So let's start by looking at the very rough preliminary draft, uh naming implementation goals and strategy development. Do you have the document, Kevin? Yes, I do. I have all those documents in front of me now. So any does it anybody have any thoughts on this document? We've discussed it a couple of times. Which one is I guess? The uh very rough draft for subcommittee discussion 611 25. Now we've approved the vision statement. It's the naming implementation goals and strategy that we have not finalized. I mean, I guess Jenny or Jennifer, because now he's knowing off of Jenny. I do go by most people call me Jenny. Um we kind of and what she did what what we did when uh we met uh that was it last week? Uh we kind of aligned the calendar with the goals and with everything else that we are minutes and what have you. So um this kind of aligned with what we have with our denominist calendar to the goals that we have drafted right here. Yeah, I I like these. I think they're uh I noticed there was an alignment with the calendar when I was going through the town, which is perfect. Any other thoughts? Anyone? Yeah. Um I'll just say the same thing I said last month when we didn't have a quorum. I kind of feel like this has been done uh for a while and that we have reviewed it with when others were here that aren't here now and they didn't have the edits at that time. So I kind of feel like um although we could always edit things to death, and I'm sure we could make better goals and better strategies. I kind of feel like we have other fish to fry and that this is um at least good enough to like move forward when we have the op when we have a quorum to move forward. Any thoughts, Kevin? Throwing the other bus today. I I know, I know, thank you. I mean I'm used to that. No, I'm just kidding. Um, Jasmine, Jasmine did an amazing job, and she got me the documents, but I was already committed to something last night and did not get a chance to review all of this between last night and the work day starting today, so um it's possible I would like to dive a little deeper when I have free time after this meeting today, so I can you know become a little bit more familiar with what you all have done and the you know work because it looks like you all put a lot of um a lot of work and uh and thought into a lot of the documents I see here. Thanks, Kevin. I you know, I I just want to touch on what you said, Jen. I think we need to we need to move forward as a commission and we could WordSmith and Wordsmith and Wordsmith.