The Anchorage Housing and Homelessness Commission held a regular meeting on March 6, 2026, to discuss a resolution supporting a municipal sanctioned campground pilot program, review updates on housing and homelessness initiatives, and hold a public hearing on a new residential rehab program. The meeting was called to order at an unspecified time and adjourned after approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Roll callers we may just go around looking board. Also, parts commissioner. Laura Rains, Commissioner. Um Julie from Commission. Daniel Singer Commissioner. Shine Williams Commissioner. General A and the Troll Department. Choose Brewers for Angridge Health Department. Town OK and Chelsea's department. Frankie Doll Commission staffer. And online. Kimberly White, Program Manager, Housing and Homelessness. I'm the Housing Services Division Manager with the Anchorage Health Department. Any of the guests, uh Sam or Taylor want to unmute and introduce yourself. This is Sam Longing Crew with the United Way of Anchor. Hi everyone, this is Taylor Donovan with Royal Camp. All right. This is the uh I give them the mayor's office. I'm on my way over there. Thanks, Thea. All right, moving through our agenda. Um we have uh approval of the agenda, the order of business. Can we get a motion to approve the agenda? I have a motion. Second. Any opposition to approval of that motion? Hearing none. Our agenda is approved. Uh next we have approval of the minutes. They're attached on the back here. Thank you so much, friendly, for the packet. Any edits or uh notes anyone would like to propose. Any opposition to approval of the motion to approve the minutes. Doing none. That is also approved. Disclosures just conflicts of interest. Yes. All right. Anyone have any disclosures or conflicts of interest to um share prior to moving into our action items? We have one action item. Uh we have a resolution that uh was drafted that is a resolution from our commission that is supporting a municipal sanctioned campground pilot program. We have a draft of the resolution here in front of us. It's resolution 2026-01. Uh, we had some conversation about that, about this particular item um last year and into the start of this year uh about support for the findings of the uh sit our sanction camp or allowed camps uh community task force uh that was stood up and had uh a report in 2025. So this uh resolution just has um somewhere statements that talks about that history of um sanctioned or allowed camping in our community talks about the ordinance 2025 death would be four, which prohibited camping on uh public premises, but allowed this as an alternative uh to that to allow places for campers to go. And the recommendation is laid out in this resolution is that there be uh three separate campgrounds established. Uh those campgrounds would be divided up into uh some populations of uh men, women, and families, and then there's uh some statements about uh what services and what amenities would be offered at that particular site based on our recommendations, uh a secured fenced area, 24 hour security, um uh section doc allotted space uh for each client along with secured storage, and then providing uh rigid tents for um people to be staying in uh some guidance on some rules and how uh referrals and connection to those services would be made. So open the floor to any discussion, or should we have a motion first? Motion to approve and then discussion and any changes would be subsidiary a motion, yes. Are there any is there a motion to approve this resolution for conversation and discussion?