Eaglexit Holiday Update
Contributed by Sean Murphy
“Anything worth doing is worth doing right the first time”. My grandfather shared this sentiment with me often as I was growing up.
The Eaglexit board has adopted this attitude with our petition to detach and incorporate to the Local Boundary Commission. Our legal team has completed the draft petition, charter, and legal brief. The legal team presented to the board last month and has strongly recommended we do some homework, and work on four areas of the petition. This will mean more legal and consulting fees. We want to have a solid document that will gain us a favorable review by the Local Boundary Commission (LBC). With these in hand, we will be taking the petition and charter to the public.
Presenting the petition and the charter to the public will be a monumental step towards giving the citizens of Assembly District 2(AD2) a clear choice. Before this happens, we continue to work with legal staff to make sure our petition will be successful. This may take a couple more months, but our board believes that the more thorough the petition and charter are the more successful we will be in gaining our independence.
“We are farther along in the process than we ever have been”. This was a comforting thought as we are working on paying our legal fees. Thanks to all your generous support we now have a product. Completing this petition and making it right will be at a cost. The board is committed to raising the necessary funds. We have always budgeted for 150-200K for our legal fees. So far, we have endured 60K in fees and are working on paying for them.
We have a matching funds fundraiser which recently started. An anonymous donor will match all donations received up to $5000. The QR code for the matching donations is at the bottom of this article. You can make your donation grow with this match.
We are reaching out to all members of our communities for fundraising ideas. We appreciate all the support we have been given. As we collect more data for our petition and legal brief, we are also interested in what developments our communities would like to see. New business, land development, and manufacturing could all be included in that development.
Happy Holidays from the Eaglexit Board! We thank you all for the support to self-governance of our communities. Our next newsletter will be in January. Enjoy the holidays and family!
We continue to meet on Tuesday evenings at 7pm. We have a new meeting place at Cozy Carpets warehouse. We are always looking for new board members and volunteers are always welcome. Please contact our Chair if interested.
This process of writing a petition, including a charter and legal brief. Turning the petition into the LBC for review and getting their approval of content will allow us to take a completed document to the public. Then we will start collecting signatures required by the LBC. When signatures are completed, we will turn in this petition with signatures to the LBC for analysis and judgment. If they approve the petition the question will be taken to the Citizens of AD2 ONLY with vote in an election governed by the LBC.
Please consider supporting the creation of the next new borough in Alaska. As anticipated by our founders, when communities grow and are ready to become independent, it is right that they do so. It takes all of us! Alaska is ready for this!
Local Voices making Local Choices!
Donate at www.Eaglexit.com or use this QR Code
Thank you for joining us in this effort!
Sean Murphy, Chair
Sean Murphy came to Alaska in the Army. Met his wife and moved to Eagle River in 1999 with his family. He is a retired Anchorage School District educator and administrator. He is active with his community council and is the new chair of Eaglexit. He can be reached at Sean.Eaglexit@gmail.com or 907-632-5307.