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Good morning everyone. The committee will come due order we need to have to consider opening a very small portion of the area in alaska for Energy Development with the 1 billion project reconciliation we received last week. The area is 1. 57 million acres of land in northeastern alaska within the non wilderness portion of anwr. So to put this in context of with the areas were talking about anwr itself is 19 million acres approximately the size of south carolina, the non wilderness area is 1002 1. 5 million acres approximately the size of delaware and this area is designated as federal wilderne...

People in the area have been evacuated from their homes. Because this started at such an early time in the morning, people were probably woken up by this probably by alarms or trucks coming through with the sirens and didnt have time to evacuate and leave. So katie was saying on the ground, a lot of people were coming out in their pajamas, grabbing pets and anything they could coming out of their homes. We are going to go back to katie, who is live out there on the scene. Katie. Reporter good morning. So right now we can actually confirm there are two burning homes next to the building. It loo...

Roads, up into the fire area. They are asking people to stay in their homes unless they absolutely have to get out for an emergency reason. Shelter in place, let the Fire Equipment get into the area, we have seen some Fire Equipment in the area, some fire trucks are making it right up close to the fire to put some extinguisher retardant and water on that fire, but they are are also mainly using air tankers, air tankers have been circling and looks like it has been effective. The fire doesnt seem to be burning in a wall of flame, it seems to be crawling around the ground. There is a lot of oak ...

Commissioners, commissioner jeff sheehy and [inaudible] safai, with that, mr. Clerk, lets call the ro l. Iem tem 1, roll call, commissioner breed, absent, commissioner farrell, absent, commissioner safai, present, commissioner sheehy. Er prenlt. Sheehy, present. Commissioner tang . Present. We have a quorum. Er thank you, item 2, please. Er item 2, Citizens Advisory Committee report, this is an information item. Alright. Thank you, we have chris [inaudible], our cac chair here. Good morning, commissioners, welcome, new commissioners, good to see new faces and current faces, good to see you all...

Would like to address the board . Please come up and state your name, please. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is serene sandage and i am the president of sandage urban glup, a Affordable Housing developer that specializing in low to moderate Income Development and i dont know if im early or late. Hope im on time but we are interesting gathering information how to provide and participate in the transitional housing piece that is slated to be on the property so i came to introduce myself and find out what the process is and next step squz who should contact as a follow up for plans and pre...