The Assembly Infrastructure, Enterprise, and Utility Oversight Committee met on September 18, 2025, at 19:17 UTC to discuss port updates, emergency water and wastewater projects, and strategic planning for utilities. The meeting began with introductions, including Mike Gabbott, the new interim Port Director (day five/six on the job). Chair Constant noted the recent rededication of the Track J public park and requested that fence-moving continue with available budget.
USACE 7001 Requests
Port of Alaska Updates (General PAMP Update)
Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility (AWWU) Emergency Projects
Other
We're just resolving some last minute technical issues and then we'll get started here. We're on the record though. All right. Thanks for being patient, everybody. I'm gonna go ahead and call the community order. We're here for the assembly infrastructure enterprise and utility oversight committee, the whole meeting. We are notice today until 1215 p.m. I'd like to start first with introductions with the members in the room. Felix Rivera. Anna Brawley. Christopher Constant. Aaron Baldwin Day, Yaro Silvers. Thank you. And then uh by way of introduction, we have a um not new face per se, but new role. Would you go ahead and introduce yourself and then speak briefly to your capacity and function here? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um my name is Mike Gabbott. I'm the uh new interim port director. So this is day five, maybe six on the job. So uh I've worked for the municipality before in a couple of different gigs uh in a couple of different administrations and uh happy to be back and helping out um briefly briefly at the at the port. Okay, thank you. And do you have something to add? I just want to add for the record how grateful we are that we to have Mr. Abbott here. For those who don't know him, he has served twice previously in my role as the municipal manager, has served in other leadership positions in the community in the interim capacity since attempting to retire. Uh and we were very thankful to be able to have him come and uh serve uh as the uh acting port director while we complete what is now a very active search um for the permanent next director of the port of Alaska. So thank you, Mr. Chair. All right, thank you. And just before the record, those municipal manager uh Beggy Went Pearson. I will um before we move to the next item, Mr. Costson. So um I pre-briefed Mr. Abbott about a question I was gonna put on the record here that he doesn't need to answer. Um really the question is uh have you been briefed on the track J Fence conversation that Miss Wynn Pearson and I have been having that the previous port director and I had had for a number of years. We just finished the rededication of the track J to public park and the original ordinance passed in 2023 and negotiations kind of took until last week to get to the point where all are in agreement and the rededication happened. So Mike, um I'm just putting you here on the record to know that there is a piece of your budget, I'm told that is available to move the fence, take down the old fence, put in the new fence. I want to make sure that that continues until we get to done. Um I'm now officially aware of it. And thank you. Uh I'll uh I'll ask some smart people that I work with uh what's going on. Perfect. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. And let's go ahead and roll into new business. We have the USACE 7001 requests. Yeah, this is just an informational item. I wanted this committee to be aware of, and that that is that um in conjunction with Mr.