Giessel-Newsletter

Dear Friends and Neighbors, The Senate Finance committee has been working on budget issues with diligence. Now that the House has provided their version of the Operating Budget, that will be the focus. The Senate is completing the Capital Budget work and will send that to the House soon. Since there’s not spare money, it […]

Dear Friends and Neighbors, Today is day 87 of the session! Please take a look at “What Dividend Makes Sense?” At the community meetings in March, we talked about this topic. There are lots of bills being worked on and/or moving these days. The Operating Budget is in the House but we expect it to

Dear Friends and Neighbors, This week we had visitors from 4-H Clubs around Alaska. Pictured is Mia Wiederspohn from Wrangell and Elle Gifford from Fairbanks.I belonged to 4-H as a youngster growing up in Fairbanks and loved it! I learned so much in 4-H and I am a huge fan of this program.“4-H” stands for

Dear Friends and Neighbors, Day 73 of the 121-day session. Met with YOU! The last 2 Saturdays I held community meetings in our District.

Dear Friends and Neighbors, Day 66 of the 121-day session. The art work you see is created by students in Kiana School in the Northwest Arctic Borough School District in Kiana Alaska!Teachers from all over Alaska are invited to send student art to us, for display on the 5 floors of the Capitol.

Dear Friends and Neighbors, I have a constituent meeting in Anchorage this week. It is on Saturday, March 18 at 12-2 at Cornerstone Church in South Anchorage. Stop by and tell me your thoughts!

Dear Friends and Neighbors, We are just over a week away from our next constituent meeting. It will be at Cornerstone Church at 12:00pm-2:00pm on Saturday, March 18. Feel free to stop by and get some cookies and tell us what matters to you!

Dear Friends and Neighbors, On March 1, I was pleased to offer Senate Bill 88. This bill, if it passes, will establish a new Defined Benefit Pension system for Alaska public employees.

Dear Friends and Neighbors, First, thank you so much to all of you who have written comments on bills or other policies under consideration. Your input is critical to shaping our future.

Dear Friends and Neighbors, Work continues on Education Funding, along with Recruitment & Retention of police, firefighters, snow plow drivers, teachers, SNAP (food stamp) employees and others.