The Joint Board of Fisheries and Game meetings consider their new Commissioner in just under two weeks.
January 14 the Board will develop a list of qualified persons for the governor to consider.
Glenn Haight with the department said they combined previously scheduled meetings, since there were only four applicants…
Haight: “And so each of the boards have provided committee members, three of them, and they will be meeting to review the candidates they’ve received.”
Public comments are being accepted by fax and email until 5pm this Friday, January 8, 2015.
Among the candidates is local drifter Roland Maw who was appointed to Gov. Bill Walker’s transition team subcommittee to represent fisheries in November.
He is up against Sam Cotten who was named interim Fish and Game commissioner on the same day Walker took the oath of office.
Zachary Hill and Greg Woods also applied from out of state, though they have previously been Alaskan residents. Hill is a researcher at the University of California and Woods is the operations manager for a trucking and rail company in South Carolina.
The meeting has also added a live internet audio stream which can be found at the Joint Board website along with additional information about the meeting.
That meeting will begin in Juneau at 8:30 am on January 14, 2015.