CHUGACH ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INC

Anchorage

Alaska

BOARD MEETING
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
November 15 2006

ACTION REQUIRED
Information
X

AGENDA ITEM NO

III C

Only

Motion
Resolution
Executive Session
Other

TOPIC

Appointment

of2007

Bylaws

Committee

DISCUSSION
Article XIII Section 2 ofthe

Chugach Bylaws require

not later than December 15

The Committee must consist of not less than five or

seven

the Board to

appoint

Bylaws

Committee

more

than

members

Four

Bylaws Committee members are returning as shown on the attached Committee list The
Board must appoint at least one new member or a maximum ofthree members to the
Committee An ad ran in the Anchorage Daily News and was placed on the Chugach web site
The following members

are

interested in

serving

on

the

Bylaws

Committee

Karl

LeRay seeking re appointment

Diane Lommel seeking re appointment
David Levy new applicant pending paperwork
Applications
Committee

are

attached for the three members who

There

are

three 3 year terms available

and review of eligibility

are

interested in

serving

on

the

Bylaws

CEO RECOMMENDATION
Motion
Karl

Move to approve the

3 year term
Diane Lommel 3 year term

LeRay

David

Levy

3 year term

following

individuals to

serve on

the 2007

Bylaws

Committee

2007

Chugach Bylaws Committee

Revised Oct 26 2006

A Terms 2005 2006 2007

Jason Brune

Service area

Windemere

Service area

Lake Otis 52

Service area

Minnesota

Service area

Flying

5000

Buckingham Way
Anchorage AK 99503
276 0700

work

563 4727

home

276 3887

fax

Donald Anderson
2230 East 52

Ave

Anchorage

AK 99507

561 4412
561 2467

work
home

561 5412

fax

B Terms 2006 2007 2008

David Ausman

361h

3505 Greenland Dr

Anchorage

AK

258 2420

work

243 2754

home
fax

258 2419

99517

Robert Gastrock
13151 Nora Drive

Anchorage

AK 99515

743 8050

work

3450261

home

227 0051

cell

C Terms 2007 2008 2009

Vacant
Vacant
Vacant

Crown

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APPLICATION FOR CHUGACH ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INC

BYLAWS COMMITTEE

Please answer the following questions using as much space as you think necessary If
there is not enough room attach an extra sheet s When submitting this form please
attach a copy of your most recent resume showing at a minimum your current and past
employment and educational history and names addresses and phone numbers of
three references that have information concerning your ability to serve
Committee Thank you for taking the time to fill out this questionnaire
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of the
member

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Chugach service territory

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do you reside in

How

on

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long have

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committees if any have you served

on

before

and it

Please give dates

of service

ByLaws

Why
To

do you wish to

ensure

that the

serve on

the

Bylaws Committee

ByLaws

serve

the association

members best

interest

The

Chugach Bylaws Committee organizes in the fall and serves until the annual
meeting in April The Committee depending on workloads may meet at least
twice per month and sometimes weekly during the January
February time
also
be
work
outside
There
those
to
or revisit bylaw
write
period
meetings
may
suggestions
there

or

anything

commentaries and subcommittee work Based on the above is

you foresee that could affect your availability and if so what

No

What

personal skills experience or abilities can you bring to the Committee

President Carleton Square Condominium Association 2004
Present
President Muscular Dystrophy Executive Committee 2005
Present
Director Harley Owner s Group 2005 Vice President ABATE of Alaska

2005 Board Member Alaska Air Show Association

Commissioner Boy Scouts of America 1996 2001

2003

Present District

Bylaws

Committee Application

Page

What is your knowledge of or contact with

MemberNolunteer Committee member

What

What do you think Chugach does well

Customer service member volunteer committees information dissemination
to members

What would you suggest

Committee member

Chugach

experience have you had with boards or commissions including the

Chugach Board which would aid you in developing or revising bylaws
Covey Leadership Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and First Things
First Learning International Interpersonal Managing Skills Advanced
Project Management PMI

changing about Chugach

bylaws

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were a

Nothing

Name Karl LeRay

Mailing Address 200 W 34th Ave 418
Anchorage Alaska 99503
E mail Address
karl@leray org
Work Phone 907 564 7092
Home Phone 907 245 3682

Fax 907 564 8421

Attached Resume

Rev 10 06

KARL LeRAY Jr
200 w 34th Ave 418 Anchorage
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Alaska 99503

907 245 3682

907 230 8210 cell

karl@leray

org

OBJECTIVE
Committee member where my extensive customer service and management skills will enhance overall
productivity
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
o

Sharp innovative decisive and self motivated with proven ability

Strong interpersonal skills coupled with enthusiasm and integrity
Able to build an award winning team of professionals

to work

Proven track record of dependability follow through and organizational

independently

proficiency

RELEVANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
MANAGEMENT

Directly conversed with corporate officers owners on methods to improve company operations
Regularly authorized to negotiate contracts on behalf of and to bind the Company
Developed and implemented policy for management and operations
Generated operations documentation to include clientemployee contacts
Served in role of General Manager when General Manager was unavailable
o

Trained other Managers in job operations

Scheduled and assigned duties to subordinates Acted

as supervisor for field contract personnel

project feasibility gathered business requirements and executed project plans
Collaborated directly with business units to assess the technical impact of business requirements
Managed relationships with third parties to ensure project completion
Actively applied quality assurance measures to management and performance

Assessed

TECHNICAL
Provided

daily operations support for National Intranet system through coordinating and providing
technical support to regional IT support groups and end users across the U S via extensive WAN
Oversaw lead network integration teams in design and implementation participating in enterprise
network strategies to include the development of the network installation work
pian
o

Responsible for all phases of systems development life cycle including analysis design development
testing generating technical process procedures manuals and ongoing support
Responsible for planning scheduling and status reporting Implemented a tracking and management
system of all service requests
Consulted

Electronic Commerce Infrastructures to include network architecture and

technologies
and Inter company business commerce
including commercial on line services
Intemet commerce EDI and EFT

supporting
Designed

on

intra

and

to process and report data provided by external resources

with client staff and management up to and including the CIO

programmed systems

Achieved technoiogy

consensus

CUSTOMER SERVICE
Able to convert techno speak to understandable English
Gathered and translated user requirements and business
which systems could be built purchased or enhanced

area

information into useful formats from

Formulated and reviewed service delivery plans negotiated service proposals reviewed deliverables
and insured conformity with requirements and standards

Organized directed and coordinated planning and production of all service delivery within a
reasonable span of control and assigned territory
Provided support to services delivered to ensure to the maximum extent
practical that services
software and related products satisfied the requirements and needs of client
Actively promoted

and

represented company

at various functions and

speaking engagements

KARL LeRA Y Jr
200 W 34th Ave 418

Anchorage

907 245 3682

Alaska 99503

WORK HISTORY
2001 Present
SOL DBA SAP Administrator
1999 2001
1998

1999

Senior Software Engineer

Product Specialist

1994 1995
1981 1994

Bid

MicroAge Anchorage
ComputerLand Anchorage
U S Army Various Locations

Systems Security

Officer

Worldwide

EDUCATION AND AWARDS

Project Management Institute Advanced Project Management Workshop 2004

Covey Leadership Seven Habits of Highly Effective People 1997 and First Things
Learning International Interpersonal Managing Skills 1998
International Who s Who of Information Technology Excellence Award 1998
Sterling Who

Who Executive

Directory

Recognition Award 1997

REFERENCES
John Podollnsky Property Administrator
U S Army Garrison Alaska
P O Box 5234
Fort Richardson Alaska 99505 0234
907 384 7273 W
907 337 3262 H

pod@podcentral net
Roy

mail

Moore Senior Software

Apex Logic

Engineer

LLC

1343 G Street 2

AK 99501

Anchorage

907 274 6696 W

907

4642
229

roy@apexalaska

mail

John Haugan Contracting Officer

Federal Aviation Administration
14
222 West 7th Avenue
AK
99513
Anchorage
907

271 5174 W
907 245 1712 H

john

haugan@faa

Mark Porter Lead

gov

mail

Systems Analyst

Alaska Communications Systems

600 Telephone Avenue

Anchorage

Alaska 99503

907 564 1250 W

907 529 5686 H

markporter@gmail

com

mail

org

Anchorage

DataFlow Alaska Anchorage

Computer Task Group Anchorage

Response Specialist

Information

karl@leray

Alaska Communications Systems

DataFlow Alaska Anchorage

Group Manager
Business Subject Malter Specialist

1997 1998
1995 1997

907 230 8210 cell

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answer

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the

enough

following questions using

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an

as

extra sheet

copy of your most recent resume

employment and educational history and
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you think necessary If

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showing at
names

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addresses and phone numbers of
a

three references that have information

concerning your ability to serve on

Committee Thank you for taking the time to fill out this questionnaire
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area

been

of the

Chugach service territory do you reside in

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the

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member

located in Service Location 2431 39724000 South Anchorage My

membership number is 244022 003 I have been a member through my
2004 in West
company since 2002 I was a residential customer from 1997
am

Anchorage
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Chugach committees

if any have you served

on

before

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give

dates

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never

served

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to

on

any

serve on

Chugach committees
the

Bylaws Committee

I believe that I have the administrative and board experience to be

excellent candidate for the Bylaws Committee please see resume
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What

an

Chugach Bylaws Committee organizes in the fall and serves until the annual
meeting in April The Committee depending on workloads may meet at least
twice per month and sometimes weekly during the January
February time
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also
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work outside those meetings to write or revisit bylaw
period
may
suggestions or commentaries and subcommittee work Based on the above is
there anything you foresee that could affect your availability and if so what
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personal skills experience or abilities can you bring to the Committee
I would bring boards and commission experience as well as experience
business and residential customer of Chugach Electric
knowledge of or contact with Chugach
My knowledge and contact with Chugach Electric is

What is your

residential customer for the last ten years

as a

business and

as a

Bylaws Committee Application

Page

What

experience have you had with boards or commissions including the

Chugach Board which would aid you in developing or revising bylaws
As Executive Director of the
Anchorage Equal Rights Commission I served a
nine member commission appointed by the Mayor and confirmed
by the
Anchorage Assembly I organized and conducted monthly meetings for
members of the AERC executive committee I
organized quarterly commission
meetings and assist the Commission in developing the agenda I provided
technical assistance for the AERC s four standing committees At Access
Alaska I served a twelve member board of directors and
provided technical
assistance for their three subcommittees I have served
the Alaska Center for Blind and Deaf Adults

board member for

Beth Sholom

as a

Congregation

Anchorage Housing Initiatives Anchorage Housing and Neighborhood

Development Commission and the Alaska State Independent Living Council
8

What do you think Chugach does well

I think that Chugach Electric provides
high
to business and residential customers in
9

quality

affordable electrical services

Anchorage

What would you suggest changing about Chugach s

Committee member
I do not have any changes to
suggest at this time
Name David M

bylaws if you

Levy

Mailing Address
3020 Redwood Street
Anchorage Alaska

99508

Work Phone 907 562 8448

Home Phone 907 245 0325
Fax 907 644 1460

Attached Resume

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DAVID M LEVY
3020 Redwood Street

Anchorage

AK 99508

245 0325

343 2566

doorelevy@gci

net

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
I

am a

self motivated and detail oriented administrative

profit management experience

following areas

I would bring to

professional with of public and non

Chugach Electric core competencies in the

Operations Management
Human Resource Management
Community Outreach and Relations
Union Negotiations

Budget Development and Management

Accomplished Spokesperson

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PARATRANSIT SERVICES
General
Serve

12002

Present

Manager

Manager of a 4 million community transportation provider which

provides
trips annually to low income people with disabilities and seniors living
working and visiting Anchorage Manage five citywide contracts including two contracts
the Municipality of Anchorage Provide general oversight to seventy employees
as

the General
177 000

with

Kev Achievements

Negotiated the

first labor agreement between Paratransit Services

Teamsters Local 959
Was awarded

an

eighteen

Anchorage

and

contract extension for the AnchorRides program in 2005

Moved Paratransit Services

Operations

and Maintenance to

new

building in

South

Anchorage
Wrote

nearly 1 1 million in successful grants

funding for transportation services

to federal state and

private agencies

for

DAVID M LEVY

ANCHORAGE

EQUAL RIGHTS COMMISSION

10 98

1 2002

Executive Director
Served

as

the Executive Director

of civil rights enforcement

agency for the

Municipality of

Anchorage
Key

Achievements

Organized along with the US Department

annual fair housing conference

of Housing and Urban

Organized along with the EEO Commission and the Alaska

Rights an annual employment conference

Development

State Commission

an

on

Human

Testified before the

Anchorage Assembly

the Alaska

Legislature the Governor s

Rights and the US
Commission on Civil Rights regarding discrimination concerns in
Anchorage
Commission

on

Tolerance the Alaska Commission

Responded annually

complaints

to 1 000 anti

of discrimination in

discrimination

on Human

inquires

and

investigated

Anchorage

CONSULTANT TZEDAKAH STRATEGIES

Provided project management and public
local government agencies in Alaska

Key

100

policy consulting

1 98
to

nonprofit agencies

and

10 98

state

and

Achievements
Contracted with the Governor

Council

on

Disabilities and

strategies to expand employment opportunities for Alaskans

Special

Education to

develop

with disabilities

Worked with Jean Craciun and Associates and the Alaska Mental Health Trust
Authority
AKMHTA to develop an advisory board for a statewide study of the needs of
AKMHTA beneficiaries

Developed a transportation

and

fundraising plan for the International People First

Anchorage Housing Initiatives and the Alaska

Conference Other clients included

Alliance for the Mentally Ill

ACCESS ALASKA

10 92

1 98

Anchorage Regional Director

Executive

Key

officer for the Anchorage office of a non profit disability rights

center

Achievements
Assisted the Alaska State

Independent Living

Council in

developing

independent living
Created and

help to fund a accessible

taxi service in

Anchorage

statewide

plan

for

DAVID M LEVY

Developed the Anchorage

agencies in Anchorage

Resource Manual

Wrote successful grants to federal state and

an

information

private agencies

guide ofhealth
for

funding

and service

for Access

Alaska programs

Managed

federal and state grants to provide

independent living services

to Alaskan with

disabilities

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1989

1991

Masters in Public Administration with

1983

an

emphasis

in

University of Colorado
nonprofit management

1987

Bachelors of Arts

University
degree

in

history

and

minor in

political

of Colorado

Denver

Boulder

science

A WARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

2000

Top Forty
2002
as

Anchorage Chamber of

Commerce and the Alaska Journal of Commerce

under 40 in Alaska
Resolution from the

the Executive Director of the

Anchorage Assembly honoring

Anchorage Equal Rights Commission

my service and

leadership