Carol Petraborg has withdrawn as an appointee to the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.
The governor has submitted a new name for legislative confirmation to the commission: Dale Kelley, of Juneau.
Deckboss presumes this is the same Dale Kelley who has worked for many years as executive director of the Alaska Trollers Association.
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Bring back Ben Brown !!
I'm so excited to see a hard working, brilliant, and strong woman appointed to the Commission! Commissioner Kelley will do great things!
Being great at CFEC is pretty easy the bar is already set pretty low.
If she just shows up for work and does 1 permit application per year she will be ahead of her predecessors.
Correction to the text of this post:
Petraborg did not withdraw; the GOVERNOR withdrew her from consideration.
See the Alaska House of Representatives Journal, Feb 28:
A letter dated February 27 was read stating the Governor withdraws the following names from legislative confirmation of appointment to the positions noted: Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, Alaska Carol Petraborg
The CFEC saga continues. It is a complete joke the state can't get the agency in line. They don't even have that large of a scope of service.
She is not as effective at the adfg as legend has it. She would have been good at cfec to bring them to heel. What a mistake by boards and commissions and the adfg
It's always amusing to see the same few people respond to anything related to CFEC in such a negative light. We all know who they are at this point, ask any legislature who is probably sick and tired of hearing from them. Wouldn't it be ironic if breadcrumbs were suddenly made public that would smash all of their glass houses and reveal them for who they really are? Lets wait and see.
I always ask this question but nobody gives a answer. If CFEC commissioners dont do adjudications what else do they do all day long. I get what computer programmers do and licensing and I get what commissioners USED to do but who does what now?
From my perspective as a long time fisherman, I can tell you that the CFEC has been a tremendous asset to Alaska. I don't know what every one does, but I know what the result is, and I'm more than willing to stay the course. They have been treated poorly for a number of years and I believe are down a number of staffed positions, but I continue to receive my cards in the mail in a timely fashion. It appears to me the State is facing much more complicated and expense related issues than a small commission who is in charge of a billion dollar industry that seems to be very stable.
"I always ask this question but nobody gives a answer. If CFEC commissioners dont do adjudications what else do they do all day long. I get what computer programmers do and licensing and I get what commissioners USED to do but who does what now?"
Why do you care? Are you a commercial fisherman? Do you know that CFEC doesn't take a penny from the general fund and are completely self funded via permit and vessel receipts? Do you understand that the CFEC funds more than 5 million dollars (above and beyond minimal operating expenses) to the ADF&G for projects that are no longer even tracked to ensure a healthy fishery? Do you realize the commission is fully supported by the United Fisherman's Association and has been largely instrumental in Alaska's sustained yield and managed fisheries?
I'm guessing you don't know any of this, which either makes you ignorant or a proponent of the CFEC being taken over by administrative interest.
6:42: once again nobody answered my question.
Why are you outsourcing your question? Do you not have the physical and mental capabilities to discover answers for yourself? Its 2018, do some damn research.
@ 6:42-
I would reference RC 066 from the last BOF meeting as a example of what CFEC commissioners do.
Go to hell on your research question. I just seen a law that busts out the commissioners cutting them way back. Theres some other stuff on the legislature web site too. The gal at my legislatures office said theres probably amendments coming up to bust it down more. I guess that about answers my question.
Lol, you seem a bit too sensitive on this, perhaps a bit too interested. Other than your complete lack grammatical skills, you completely dismiss your own statement. You discount individual research, then layout your knowledge of individual research. I smell a fake post.
The 8th graders spill into the next room!
"Post here at your peril."
"Go to hell."
"You can't even use proper grammar, faker"
"You ain't got nothin grandma."
Hilarious! Just like two drunk fools at Eddie's at the end of the season in the bay, swinging at each other and both missing.
Someday this war is going to end. Find another good one like this Wes, or we'll all go back to watching WWE reruns.
Interesting you are semi-quoting comments from 2 different forum topics. I could easily out you, but I really just want this to end. In this crazy stupid battle, one side has launched a full-on attack with a handful of disgruntled employees while the other is simply trying to defend themselves and work. The narrative war was lost 4 years ago which has fueled the opposition into this idea that they can somehow hijack a successful 42 year old agency whose primary goal is to regulate and promote the conservation and sustained yield management of Alaska's fishery resources, including the economic health and stability of the industry. By any measure, they have been successful, all the while, not taking a damn penny from the general fund but instead contributing millions. And today, they are doing that with less than 20 employees. Give me one other state department or agency that provides this type of deliverables while also converting 70% of their revenue to the state coffers. Please, just one.
I hope everyone realizes that every post in a CFEC related topic is generated within a group of probably 5-7 people, fighting a pathetic proxy war as anonymous posters pretending to be bipartisan participants. Most of them are ex-employees, but not all.
All of these people need to get a f***ing job and a life and move on. You are all pathetic losers and undeserving of public funding.
Looks like somebody needs one example of converting deliverable revenue to the state coffers. Walker & Mallot just asked for more disaster assistance for the 2018 Gulf Cod Fishery, following in the footsteps to the 2016 CFEC sustainable pink salmon fishery? How much will this cost America 9:44, since your going to out everybody who's doing such a wonderful job promoting the conservation and sustained management theory of this industry. $200 million in federal relief funds, and its all such a great sustainability model, we can't wait, to see what's next to float your boat in Juneau.
CFEC does not "contribute millions" to the general fund. CFEC contributes no more than the clerk at SeaMart who handles money every day to "contribute millions" to the shareholder partners.
CFEC is a clerk. It carries out fee collection assigned to it by the legislature. The legislature takes this money and uses it as it pleases. It has decided that some of those millions should be used to pay for the costs of CFEC. It has also decided some of the money should be used to pay for costs at ADFG and for other things like fish enhancement. Read the audits.
CFEC is a clerk. Just like DMV is a clerk. Or Dept. of Revenue, who is the biggest clerk of all. Dept Rev "contributes millions more" than anyone when it collects license and permit fees, taxes, user fees, and royalties. Their CEOs are the legislature.
The problem is that CFEC has a history of being a slacker clerk. That's why new management was brought in. As the audits recommended. Read them.
The new commissioners, to their credit, acknowledge their task on the record. Behind closed doors, they are much more candid. Walker sent them in not to collect fees but to end an era of dysfunction, lack of accountability, mean-spirited blaming and infighting, and atrophy. They will succeed, and only the slackers will suffer. Unless they decide to go to work.
So the multi-year hostile takeover attempts from ADF&G was driven by their desire for another clerk? During the last years of huge budget cuts, it had nothing to do with the fishers receipt generated funds that far exceed the operating expenses of the CFEC? We're not supposed to follow the money? We're not supposed to question politicians and should assume all the excess money, which goes directly to ADF&G coffers, is being used for the benefit of commercial fishers?
Yawn.
Is that all you got, Mr. ex-commissioner?
7:13, good point. Question politicians. Demand accountability. Follow the money. Ask for audits when you suspect problems. Open the books on ADFG. Its all good.
Look at what happened to CFEC when the books were opened on it. Commissioners who did next to nothing and paid for nothing. Computer system from the 1980's. Employees working at home from Vegas or seldom seen. Nobody in charge. Fingerr pointing instead of progress. Budget waste. Read the audits. Where would we be without them. Doing the same?
I agree. Open the books at ADF&G. Give them the CFEC treatment. First, let's find an ex-CFEC employee to mock up a bogus report and pay them handsomely, then based on the findings of that report, call for a full leg audit. Then dig in to the reality of their financial dealings, their lies and deceit in budgetary processes and the real reason they have actively pursued the hostile take over of an autonomous organization that is supposed to be apolitical. What happens when the money hungry fish beurocrats have total control of limited entry? Who's looking out for the permit holders and their rights? Governor X who appoints Commissioner Y and expects particular results that is controlled by said Commissioner. ADF&G becomes judge, jury and executioner. Say goodbye to whatever rights you thought were protected.
The fighting 8th graders just flunked and are now in 7th grade.
The class teacher made them write 100 times "I will quit my angry life and not be a dumb sh*t" but it hasn't helped.
This is the quality of our government employees folks.
Self-deprecating realizations, especially when written, can be soothing according to psychiatric professionals. I truly hope you are getting the treatment you need. Stay focused, you can do this.
In the meantime the ex commissioner can be seen lurking in the parking lot mumbling to himself. Locked out and tapping on windows. Begging to be let in for please just a couple more years.
ha ha! As the license employees also tap tap on computer screens from the 1980s'. Waiting to go to the fax machine for the next 'online license' to be sent in so they can reenter it.
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