This meeting marked the fourth and final session of Phase Two for the Anchorage Public Safety Commission Task Force. The primary objective was to finalize draft recommendations regarding a new advisory commission, review nine proposed amendments, and conduct a binding vote on the full package. The session utilized a consensus voting model, which shifted to majority voting (50% plus one) when consensus was not reached. The meeting concluded with the unanimous passage of the final recommendations, which will now be forwarded to the Anchorage Assembly for policy consideration.
Section 1: Mission and Duties
Section 2: Authority Options
Section 3: Membership Structure and Staffing
Section 4: Evaluation and Reporting
If this is the first time that you've joined us, welcome. There are a number of folks that have been meeting since last spring. And we've had a lot of different types of meeting formats. We have a document in front of us today that is an attempt to capture all of that work in one place at a level that can be forwarded to the assembly for them to take the ball and consider some sort of action in developing a new commission for public safety in Anchorage. We have an agenda today, and it's very optimistic. So I'm going to do my best to loop us along, but also not rush you. So that is my intention for today. So I'm going to kind of walk through what that looks like, and we can talk about you know how that feels for people and whether there's questions around how you can engage. So we want to create some space for that. My job, I think, today is to help us really focus on the document itself. So I'm going to try and keep us focused on content and maybe wording and making sure things are clear. I also want to recognize that we've gotten a lot of feedback that isn't included in the document that is probably the reason for that is because it's probably more appropriate for maybe the implementation phase, or even that step between what happens here and what happens at the assembly. So there may be some technical questions that come up that we're just not going to be able to answer in this process, and and that's okay. So the hope is that our recommendations capture the intention of this process, and that's our work, and then just know that then there's another phase, and that is the policy making process, and there will be advocacy that everyone will need to do to help engage there, and that'll be a different process. Okay. So we do have a plan for some voting and decision meeting after we get through the document, and some of the we received eight amendments before today. And we I already know of one that's being drafted right now. So if you have an amendment that you think you want to put on the table, um, see one of my team members and they'll kind of work with you because we're gonna have to pivot real quick to make space for that, and we don't really know exactly how that's gonna work. Um we're using technology for our voting, so we have to kind of figure that out. Um but I think we're ready. And if you all are ready, um we're ready to start leading you through that process. Um what am I forgetting? I'm totally out of script here. Give me a second. The voting, yeah. Should I walk through it? Yeah, all right. So what we were thinking before we walked through the document, we were thinking about doing a little practice vote that might be fun. So before I go there, I want to talk a little bit about this phase of the process, and um so back in September, this is the fourth of four meetings for what we've been calling phase two, and uh we wanted to make sure that we had an opportunity for for those of you, I've seen many of you at every single meeting, and so we wanted to sort of honor that and create space where people that were in the voting process have been engaged in some way. And so uh members of the public and task force members are invited to participate in the voting process, um, so long as you have participated in one of the last uh three meetings, so today being the fourth, um that includes whether you have gone online and watched one of the videos, and I've already heard from a lot of you that you did that, and we're using the honor system, so if that's you, you're invited to vote. So if that's you, you're invited to vote. If that's not you, you are absolutely invited to participate in all of the discussion today. And you are absolutely invited to even submit an amendment. Um, but we just won't have you participate in the voting part. So we'll take account once it's time. Um we're gonna use consensus voting, which means we have zero no votes for something to move forward. But if we have a no vote on something, then we'll move into a majority vote, which will mean um 50% of the number of votes plus one. And in order for us to get to that point, we need to assess how many people are actually going to be voting. And then I also want to say anyone at any point, if you're eligible to vote and you're in this room, you can absolutely abstain from any vote. Um, and so there may be folks in this room that want to abstain. If you are eligible to vote, we ask that you we ask that you abstain versus um opting out of voting so that it's an accurate reflection of the majority count overall, and so if that's something that you choose to do, we're also doing it confidentially, and we hope that that creates space so people feel like you know they can vote vote their heart, um, and there's not gonna be any ramifications from anyone in the room. Um our team will have the ability to tell, like we need to have some integrity with the voting process in case there's something really close. We are asking that you put your name in the system. We won't be showing it on the screen, and we won't be sharing it unless somebody does a public records request. I mean, it is potentially public information, but I just want to share that intention is that the vote's confidential in the room. Our team will not be sharing any of that information. Um, and that's my expectation is that that's how it will end up. Okay. Um what have I missed? So we're we're gonna use a light version of Robert's rules.