Yeah.

All right.

Good afternoon, everybody.

I'd like to call this March 11th, 2026 meeting of the municipal public naming commission to order.

It is 4.03 p.m.

Um.

Jamie, could you please do a row call?

Member Hess.

Here.

Member Gupta.

Here.

Member Harrison.

Here.

Member Heller.

Here.

And Member Kahn said that she was tentative today.

She was going to try to call in if she could.

All right.

Could I get a volunteer to uh read the land acknowledgement?

I can do that.

Thank you, Jennifer.

I'll read it since I'm in person.

Sorry.

I didn't have my microphone on.

A land acknowledgement is a formal statement recognizing the indigenous people of a place.

It is a public gesture of appreciation of the past and present indigenous stewardship of the lands that we now occupy.

It is an actionable statement that marks our collective movement towards decolonization and equity.

The public naming commission would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the traditional lands of the Denina Athabascans for thousands of years.

The Denina have been and continue to be the stewards of this land.

It is with gratitude and respect that we recognize the contributions, innovations, and contemporary perspectives of the upper Cook and Lit Denina.

Thank you, Jen.

We lack a quorum, so we need to skip uh approval of the agenda and minutes of the previous meetings.

We can go down to we we can't vote or conduct any business, but we can have discussions.

So we can talk about the indigenous naming pathways policy consultation if there's any update on that item.

I do not have anything.

Um I know that we last uh spoke with the the council, but I haven't heard anything since I did want to say that I talked to a few of the oclutna council members about joining um and met with oh no, no, I couldn't do that.

So I I didn't get very far talking to individuals, but I do think that maybe Faith would still be interested if the council um appointed her.

So I'll have to maybe work on that angle.

Perhaps we could sit considering or you could draft a letter from the commission to occlutna requesting that they uh you know appoint somebody or consider appointing somebody.

Maybe a formal request would get a response.

Yeah, I can I can do that.

Um would I send the text to you and um the clerk so yeah, send it to me and Jamie and we can look at it with you and words with it.

Okay.

Um anything else on that item.

If uh if I may say, I think um it again, it would be nice to um I think it would be nice to have the representation if possible here to have the discussion if possible.

So that to continue the discussion on the naming pathway if we were to have um like the indigenous uh Alaska Native perspective on the commission or at least to come and talk with us and have that open discussion.

I think that give a little bit more um a better understanding of maybe how we can approach that as a commission um and things like that too.

Um, and I do apologize.

I was not here at the last meeting that we had um because of personal conflict.

So I wasn't sure if you had given an update about the meeting that you all went to with a clutner and if that happened or not.

So I just kind of want I just wanted to add that.

Oh um, I can share that it was here in this room.

Um it was pretty cool because half the side was uh assembly members and half the side was Aklutina council members, so the room was pretty packed.

Um, but three of us spoke.

Um Daryl went first, and I think it was cuckoo online.

And then I closed.

Um, so it was like a three-part little presentation.

But nobody like jumped up by the way and said, I want to do it.

They just kind of, you know, said, Oh, that's a good idea.

You know, that kind of a nodding of heads, but I didn't get any, I didn't get anybody like against it.