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Are the MSB employee benefits packages too generous?

The MSB offers generous benefits packages to its employees. Maybe too generous? After 11 years of service, full time employees get 37 days (7.5 weeks) of personal leave! (They accrue 11.6378 hours per pay period. There are 26 pay periods per year.) Plus they also get 12 paid holidays! So…

Mat-Su Borough Employee Salaries & Benefits for FY2017

The Alaska Policy Forum has gathered and posted MSB employee salaries & benefits for FY2017. Here is the link to the post: Go to Alaska Policy Forum dot ORG. Here is the downloaded data: Mat-Su-Employee-Earnings-2017 Here are some highlights: Manager and Assistant Manager and “Internal Auditor”: Attorney and Deputy Attorney:…

What is wrong with tap water?

I sent the following email to the Mat-Su Assembly members this morning: Hello All, I noticed these BID solicitation documents on the MSB website today.  Supply and Deliver Bottled Water to all the MSB buildings.  So much bottled water – esp. for the Dorothy Swanda Jones building. The estimated cost…

Ruffled “Otto” Feathers

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.”

Competing Interests

Competing interests… The MSB gov’t is not a large entity.  It is like a club. There are only 323 full time employees. They get great salaries and benefits. Regular 40 hour weeks (or is it 35?) plus vacation time. PERS retirement. Cadillac health plans. None of the jobs seem too…

The Gamble Settlement

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…

Port Operations Manager Position

At the Port Commission meeting this week (January 21, 2019), the Port Operations Manager gave a presentation on her proposed FY2020 Budget. Included in the presentation was a notation that FY2020 proposed wages have not been calculated but “add an estimate of 120K.” Let’s analyze this – 120K per year…

Personal Use Vehicles and other Perks

The Mat-Su Borough Manager, Attorney, and Clerk are the only three employees who report directly to the Assembly.  This “triumvirate” is clearly in charge of the MSB and their employment contracts and perks make this clear. Each of these employees is allowed a “Personal Use” vehicle with all expenses covered including…

MatSu Borough employee earnings history FY 2016 and FY 2017

Highlights: MSB Manager John Moosey earned $199,913.86 (FY 2017 – which ended 6/30/17) up a bit from from $196,795.88 (FY 2016) MSB Attorney Nick Spiropoulos earned $175,214.68  – which seems to be 20K more than FY2016 when he earned $155,872.11 MSB Clerk Lonnie McKechnie earned $126,082.81 which seems to be…