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Thoughts of retirement
Not old enough to carry a firearm, Scott continued working at OPD. He eventually went to recruit school and when he was finished, was given a gun and badge.
At 21, Scott was a patrol officer and on the street for two years. Two years after joining the OPD, he switched to the Marion County Sheriff s Office, where he was a road deputy for four years.
Now, after more than a half a century of doing different jobs, Scott, a circuit and administrative judge, believes it s time to take off the black robe. Scott plans to retire in July.
4:59 Petersburg’s borough assembly heard testimony both for and against proposed legislation to transfer land from the Tongass National Forest to five new urban Native corporations.
Alaska Natives from five Southeast Alaska communities are seeking that compensation not granted in a land claims bill 50 years ago and are seeking support from the municipal government in their effort.
The legislation has been introduced in past sessions of Congress and is expected to be reintroduced again later this year.
The campaign backing the bill is called Alaska Natives Without Land and the five communities are sometimes called landless. They were not granted the right to form village or urban corporations in the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Public comment divided on Native corporation land bill
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Mar 12, 2021
Portage Bay on Kupreanof Island near Petersburg (Elizabeth Jenkins/KFSK)
Petersburg’s borough assembly Wednesday heard testimony both for and against proposed legislation to transfer land from the Tongass National Forest to five new urban Native corporations. Alaska Natives from five Southeast Alaska communities are seeking that compensation not granted in a land claims bill 50 years ago and are seeking support from the municipal government in their effort.
The legislation has been introduced in past sessions of Congress and is expected to be reintroduced again later this year. It proposes to grant 23,040 acres each to new urban Native corporations in Petersburg, Wrangell, Haines, Tenakee and Ketchikan, a total of just over 115-thousand acres of land that’s currently part of the Tongass National Forest.