{"id":2291,"date":"2012-04-13T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T01:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2012-04-13T18:22:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:22:56","slug":"joint-session-confirms-nominee-from-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"Joint Session Confirms Nominees from Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislature met in joint-session this week to consider the Governor\u2019s nominees to state boards and commissions. The State of Alaska has over 100 <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.alaska.gov\/parnell\/services\/boards-commissions.html\" target=\"_blank\">boards and commissions<\/a>\u00a0that involve Alaskans in the civic and commercial processes of government.\u00a0 Alaskans are appointed by the Governor and are reviewed by the Legislature for confirmation.\u00a0\u00a0I was pleased the Governor nominated several individuals for re-appointment\u00a0from Southeast Alaska, including:<\/p>\n<p>Clay Bezenek &#8211; Ketchikan &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labor.state.ak.us\/wc\/ffund.htm#What is Fish Fund\" target=\"_blank\">Fisherman&#8217;s Fund Advisory &amp; Appeals Council<br \/>\n<\/a>Christa Bruce-Kotrc &#8211; Ketchikan &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/humanrights.alaska.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">State Commission for Human Rights<\/a><br \/>\nSheldon Schmitt &#8211; Sitka &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dps.alaska.gov\/apsc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska Police Standards Council<\/a><br \/>\nJames Rhodes &#8211; Ketchikan &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/labor.alaska.gov\/wccomm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Workers&#8217; Compensation Appeals Commission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having quality Alaskans involved in government is crucial for our state.\u00a0 I am glad the Governor re-appointed these individuals and appreciate their service to Alaska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislature met in joint-session this week to consider the Governor\u2019s nominees to state boards and commissions. The State of Alaska has over 100 boards and commissions\u00a0that involve Alaskans in the civic and commercial processes of government.\u00a0 Alaskans are appointed by the Governor and are reviewed by the Legislature for confirmation.\u00a0\u00a0I was pleased the Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}