MSB Station 6-2, the new Knik Public Safety Building, is almost completed and the total costs are now just over $12 MILLION. This Fire Station & Training Facility is located on 74 acres way down KGB road in Wasilla. It belongs to the Mat-Su Central Fire Service Area. It is…
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Instead of adding to the previous post (FSA Independent Audit), here is a separate post about the events that led up to the FSA boards requesting an audit in 2016. These Central Mat-Su & West Lakes FSA meeting minutes from the fall of 2015 and early 2016 are truly astonishing.…
The leaders of various Fire Service Areas have complained over the years about how the MSB was managing the FSA accounts. NOTE: FSA money goes toward fire services in each area; but EMS is borough wide. FSAs pay for admin services from the MSB. EMS generally functions in conjunction…
There are two items of note on the May 7th Assembly agenda involving the Central MatSu Fire Service Area. The MSB Manager is asking the Assembly to approve two significant capital projects to be funded by the Central MatSu FSA’s savings account: 1) $4 million to repair and add an…
Col. Paul “Otto” Feather had had it with the MSB and flown away. Here is his resignation letter from January. (Highlights are mine.) UPDATE: The MSB gave Otto Feather three months’ pay as “severance.”
SUMMARY OF THIS Legal Settlement Agreement for those that don’t have time to read it: MSB – Mr. Gamble, here is 75K. You can’t sue us or anyone (or help anyone sue) for anything that has any plausible connection to the MSB, okay? Here is an extra 5K if you…
Newly released public records show that the Mat-Su Borough paid out $80,000 as part of a legal settlement and release agreement to William F. Gamble, the former Director of Emergency Services, in April, 2017. Mr. Gamble was the Director of EMS from April 2015 until January 2017 when the MSB…
Date: September 17,2018 Copies sent to the following: Major: Vern Halter Borough Manager: John Moosey Deputy Borough Manager: George Hays MSB Assembly Jim Sykes Matthew Beck George McKee Ted Leonard Dan Mayfield Barbara Doty Randall Kowalke City of Palmer City Council Media: Frontiersman Editor Current & former employee comments regarding…
Lisa A. Behrens, the former Deputy Director of Emergency Services for the Mat-Su Borough, has filed a lawsuit against the Borough, Paul “Otto” Feather, the Director of Emergency Services for the MSB, and John Moosey, the Manager for the MSB. Ms. Behrens’ complaint, which was filed on May 22, 2018,…