2-17-17 Front & Center: Alaska’s Fiscal Crisis

RDC BREAKFAST FORUM SERIES

Next Breakfast: March 2, 2017 – Dena’ina Center
Pat Foley, Vice President Alaska Operations, Caelus Energy Alaska LLC

Registration will open February 23rd.

Breakfast forums are held the first and third Thursday’s from September to May. Doors open at 6:30 a.m., presentation begins at 7:30 a.m. Cost per person is $24 member, and $29 non-member, and is non-refundable but may be transferred. Unless otherwise noted, forums are held at the Dena’ina Civic & Convention Center at the corner of G Street and 7th Avenue.

Breakfast Forum Yesterday: February 16, 2017. The State’s Operating Budget: Critical Crossroads, Choices, and Opportunities

Cheryl Frasca, Past President, Commonwealth North. Breakfast Packet (pdf) • PowerPoint Slides (pdf)

“The good news is that they didn’t spend every dime that they could have when they had surplus revenues. The bad news here is that were down to the last $3 billion or so in the Constitutional Budget Reserve, as the legislature works on next year’s budget. If they (Legislators) don’t make substantive changes, the CBR will be down to zero. And then what the hell’s going to happen?

It’s a structural problem and it’s continuing.”

-Cheryl Frasca

About the Author: wpnorthern

Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School. Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations. Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska. Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power. He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress. Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.