Meetings & Minutes

114 people have filled out surveys. Close survey on the 15th. 

Synthesize results on November 16th and talk about what questions come next. Highlight meeting style of FAI and affirm basis of operations. 

Seeing a lot of mutual aid around food and medicare. Ranked Choice Repeal effort is underway and includes repeal of dark money provisions. Passage would adversely impact our effort and reinstate old election systems with partitioned primaries.

77 people have filled out the survey so far. Keep it open through the first or second week of November. 

So far, 70% of survey participants were nonpartisan/undeclared. 98.6% were full-time residents. More than 79% have lived in Alaska longer than 10 years. Strong alignment of values/methods that were suggested. Two waves of responses: First announced (41) Oct 6-9th. Second wave (23) 16-18th. 

36% in the 22-40 age group. 55% were in the 41-64 age group. 

Printable flier on website. Hope to get on bulletin boards on University Campus: UAS. UAA. UAF. Reach out to 907 initiative/Stand up Alaska/ Matsu United for Progress/ Native Movement

Neighbors inbox got an email from Alaska Forward Party to discuss.

• Dillingham (1), Juneau (2)
• Reformatted Values & Vision section of website
• Made website live and activated survey
• Pat will write a press release this week
• We heard back from First Alaskans Institute, “We are delighted to hear that your organization has gravitated towards our shared agreements and want to confirm with you that you are more than welcome to use them. The purpose of the agreements is to share it widely, so feel free!”
• Feel free to share widely!

• Dillingham (1), Kenai (1), Fairbanks (1), Juneau (1) 
• Discovered that the website shows differently in different browsers: 
• Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs Ecocia. Seems to work best in Chrome. 
• Feedback on liking the blog format for minutes and how the website is designed. 
• People will show website to friends to get some additional feedback. Put feedback in discord if you cannot make it to zoom. 
• Moving next week’s meeting to 1pm 

Worked on the mobile version of the website. Did some layout and continued to edit and update the website and survey before public launch.

Talked a bit about the AIDEA plan to sell out Juneau’s renewable energy credits.

First review of draft website content prior to release of survey.

Juneau (2), Dillingham (1)

• Will update Akneighbors.org website for 9/7 meeting
• Update Survey Results Tally to reflect latest survey responses

Juneau (2)

• Create new Shared Drive for all documents 
• Create folder to share copies of sample bylaws and start a skeleton document to draft bylaws

Juneau(2), Dillingham

Discussed Data for Progress survey results: https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2025/7/dfp_alaska_summer_2025_peltola.pdf

Discussed HR3040 which could repeal RCV at the federal level and put the brakes on this effort to create a new party.

Reviewed the 3 test survey results for how data is looking and more edits:  

New First section for survey?

• Do you feel like Alaska needs another political party? 
• Current Party Affiliation
• What things do you like about your current party affiliation? 
• What ideas do you have to improve your current party?
• A new Alaska party would give me more options when voting (scale) 


Demographic: How many years in Alaska? 0-2, 2-5, 5-11, 11-20, 20+

Current residency: 

• Fulltime resident
• Seasonal worker 
• Out of state, intending to return 
• Residency tied to limited contractual/education term 
• Plan to leave Alaska 

Idea to do minutes as blog posts to make easy for people to read/catch up

Next meeting: 8/17 10am

Juneau (2), Dillingham, Gustavus

Facilitator Role

• Designation of facilitator role at beginning of meeting
• Acknowledge participants who have been silent and encouraging them to speak up
• Timekeeping to ensure that one person isn’t dominating the discussion
• De-escalate when conversation becomes 
• Recapping what has been going on 
• Help people understand each other. Repeat back. 

To Do: Reach out to First Alaskan Institute about use of meeting agreements structure and possibility for facilitator training.

Are there other Alaska appropriate facilitation methods out there?

Different types of facilitation: Brainstorming/Decisions 

Should facilitators engage in discussion?

Coming up with guidelines with the group. In dialogue. 

Discussed a collective notetakers role and the process of designating a note-taker. 

Visual Timeline of next steps:

BEFORE SURVEY GOES OUT: 

-Link to survey from Website

SURVEY GOES OUT (By end of the month) 

Pro-active outreach. How long does survey go out before we close it? (All of September) 

After survey goes out:

-October meeting to go over results 

-January/February: Start of session.