Alaska Redistricting Board Goes Through Executive Director Applications Wednesday and Interviews Finalists Thursday

[UPDATE 3/13 12:00 noon - I confirmed this morning the public portions of the meeting will be online.]

[UPDATE 9:30pm :  I learned from the Board's administrative assistant that there were six applicants, but only five completed the application process.  All five will be interviewed.  There is also some question about whether the meeting will be accessible remotely on the grounds that most of the meeting will be executive session.]

ALASKA REDISTRICTING  BOARD

BOARD MEETING AGENDA

March 13th,  1:00PM

Anchorage, Alaska 

1.   CALL TO ORDER

2.    ROLL CALL

3.   APPROVAL OF AGENDA

4.   CHAIRMAN’S REPORT

5.   LEGAL REVIEW

6.   EXECUTIVE SESSION:

• REVIEW APPLICATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND
• LITIGATION STRATEGY AND ADVICE FROM  COUNSEL

7.  BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS

8.  NEXT MEETING: MARCH 14TH   9:00AM

9.  ADJOURNMENT

 I suspect most of the meeting will be in Executive session and then they will announce the finalists who they will interview on Thursday.  That agenda (Thursday) is the same except they're interviewing finalists in the Executive Session.

If you go to the meeting tomorrow, I imagine some of the applicants may be there just to see how things work and to find out if they'll be interviewing on Thursday.  Unfortunately, I'm in LA (but in terms of weather, fortunate.) 

For those nearby in Anchorage, they'll be meeting at 411 W 4th  Avenue, Suite 302
For others, you can watch it online.    That's the Alaska Legislative tv link.

Their last executive director, Taylor Bickford, was a sharp, competent, and decent young man, who jumped into the job after the unexpected death of the original executive director, also a competent and able man, Ron Miller.  I hope they can do as well this time.