A female pinch a pinkish sweater and reddish glassesMeg Zaletel, Executive Director of nan Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, leads nan Homeless Task Force gathering connected Monday, September 19th, 2022. An Anchorage Assembly member, Zaletel announced she won’t activity reelection successful 2025. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)

Anchorage Assembly vice chair Meg Zaletel will not activity a 3rd term. 

In an question and reply Wednesday, Zaletel said she feels for illustration she’s accomplished a batch since she was elected to correspond Midtown successful 2019, and now is simply a bully clip to front out.

“I consciousness for illustration I’ve done really awesome argumentation activity successful nan almost six years I’ve been connected nan Assembly, and I deliberation it’s important to make room for caller activity opportunities for different folks,” Zaletel said.

Zaletel came to nan Assembly pinch a ineligible background, serving arsenic an lawyer pinch nan Disability Law Center of Alaska earlier opening her ain practice. She presently serves arsenic nan executive head of nan Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, and often recused herself from galore Assembly actions involving bum services. 

After a sometimes tense tenure that included spats pinch erstwhile Mayor Dave Bronson and a failed callback attempt, Zaletel said she’s proud of continuing semipermanent activity connected fixing nan Port of Alaska and restoring nan Eklutna River. She besides highlighted immoderate much contiguous accomplishments. 

“Partnering pinch immoderate of my female colleagues to bring parental time off guardant for municipal employees, moving to get nan mobile situation squad up and going,” Zaletel said. “So it’s benignant of a operation of those things that are going to return years to unfold and implement, and those that are much immediate.”

Zaletel said she doesn’t expect moving for agency anytime soon and is looking guardant to having conscionable 1 full-time job. 

Zaletel is nan 2nd Assembly personnel to denote they would not activity reelection adjacent year. East Anchorage personnel Karen Bronga announced she wouldn’t tally again and endorsed Yarrow Silvers to switch her. 

Currently, 1 personification has revenge their intent to tally for Zaletel’s seat. That’s Erin Day. 

“I afloat support her run,” Zaletel said aft having a chance to speak pinch Day. 

The adjacent municipal predetermination is group for April 1, 2025.

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