The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly is comprised of members elected from seven districts for staggered three-year terms for no more than two consecutive full terms. The MSB also has a mayor who runs the Assembly meetings and only votes when there is a tie. The 2019 election is scheduled for November…
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I received this note today: Comment: Just wondering if you are aware that the land fill is getting into the trucking business? They will have spent close to 1 million dollars buying trucks trailers and hiring drivers. All this to get rid of Tews. Tews charges somewhere around $550,000 per year…
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…
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…
The MSB Aviation Advisory Board meets this week. One of the items on the agenda is the prospect of the MSB taking over management responsibilities for some airports in the Mat-Su Valley. They are considering the Talkeetna, Willow, and Big Lake airports which are currently owned and operated by the…
Assembly member Jim Sykes is introducing a Resolution (19-074) at the upcoming MSB Assembly meeting regarding developing a local regulatory scheme for Wetlands Mitigation. RS 19-074 IM 19-138 As a reminder – the MSB has been trying to be a player in the Wetlands Mitigation game for many years…
The MSB, which is in the process of purchasing the Tommy Moe building in downtown Wasilla for $1,285,000, paid the owner – Palmer Tower LLC – almost $500,000 to lease a portion of this building – the warehouse space in the back – for the past 11 years. Blog Post…
Dennis Anderson, the Frontiersman newspaper’s Publisher (who recently relocated to Colorado but still works for Wick Publishing which owns the Frontiersman), is MSB Manager Moosey’s “go to” person for Public Relations. Mr. Anderson’s “Publisher’s Notebook” column, which runs in the Frontiersman and its sister newspaper, the Anchorage Press, often features…
Here is a brand new Public Notice that was published in the local newspaper and on the MSB’s website today. The MSB is proposing a land exchange of borough land located in Trapper Creek to offset the MSB’s purchase of the Tommy Moe building in downtown Wasilla. Comments are due…
The MSB manager seems to be very free and easy with regard to paying out “severance packages” to dearly departed MSB employees. The MSB paid William F. Gamble $80,000 a few years ago…and today, via a Public Records Request, it was discovered that the MSB paid former MSB Emergency Services…