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Jim Cooper

Mayor of Palmer, Alaska (term ends October 2028), retired 26-year Coast Guard veteran and former fabric store owner; guest on Big Cabbage Radio's Mayor's Minutes.

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PODCASTS

Oct 15, 2026

Big Cabbage Radio

Big Cabbage Radio

Mayor’s Minutes: Report on the October 13th, 2026, Palmer City Council Meeting.

Oct 15 · 9m

Mike ChmielewskiHOST

6:14

... work being done? [laughs] What, what do you see as a beginning step looking at annexation?

Jim CooperGUEST

6:20

City manager and I have talked, talked about that, and I'll back up.

Jim CooperGUEST

6:23

It's been brought up by the council.

Jim CooperGUEST

6:24

They want to, uh, annex out to the Sewer Water District.

Jim CooperGUEST

6:27

And so as part of that, to know what is that gonna cost, because it's such a larger area that we're gonna, we're gonna need new policemen Or more.

Jim CooperGUEST

6:36

More police cars, potentially more fire, more staff to he- to help manage all of the billing and that kind of stuff.

Jim CooperGUEST

6:43

Currently, we're looking at, at having the departments look at that.

Mike ChmielewskiHOST

8:57

Two people.

Big Cabbage Radio

Big Cabbage Radio

Report on the September 22nd, 2026, Palmer City Council Meeting.

Oct 2 · 7m

Mike MalevskyHOST

0:57

Okay.

Jim CooperGUEST

0:58

Yeah.

Jim CooperGUEST

0:58

And result, what you tell you that in general, overall, there were nothing but positive comments.

Jim CooperGUEST

1:04

Asked her, obviously talked about her job description, what she is supposed to do, what she does do, all the things over and above.

Jim CooperGUEST

1:11

the things that she's required to do.

Jim CooperGUEST

1:13

And yeah, everybody was really happy with her performance over the last year.

Jim CooperGUEST

1:18

And the result at the end, she was given a pay raise because for a couple of reasons.

Mike MalevskyHOST

3:28

I haven't