On Nov. 25, 1986, Gov.-elect Steve Cowper announced former Rep. Hugh Malone of Kenai as the commissioner of Revenue and Mayor Rocky Gutierrez of Sitka as commissioner of Transportation and Public Facilities for his cabinet. The pair were the first two members officially named by Gov.-elect Cowper and were already on Cowper\u2019s transitional team before being chosen for their respective positions.<\/p>\n
As Cowper readied to assume office, Gov. Bill Sheffield explored different ways to close the budget deficit. Sheffield\u2019s plan included multiple new cuts, such as to state workers\u2019 salaries, longer work weeks, and less government aid to local communities. However, Cowper was dissatisfied with Sheffield\u2019s plan, and instead proposed his own. Cowper\u2019s plan included a limit of $1.768 billion to run the state government in the fiscal year starting on July 1, 1987, which was about $215 million less than what was being spent at the time.<\/p>\n
Locally, the City and Borough of Juneau was looking to hire a lobbyist to represent the city during the upcoming legislative session. The Assembly planned to meet the following day to talk more about a prospective lobbyist.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis Day in Juneau History\u201d is compiled by Empire freelancer Tasha Elizarde, who sums up the day\u2019s events \u2014 30 years ago \u2014 by perusing Empire archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Nov. 25, 1986, Gov.-elect Steve Cowper announced former Rep. Hugh Malone of Kenai as the commissioner of Revenue and Mayor Rocky Gutierrez of Sitka as commissioner of Transportation and Public Facilities for his cabinet. The pair were the first two members officially named by Gov.-elect Cowper and were already on Cowper\u2019s transitional team before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}