Offices of the Petersburg Indian Association in Alaska. Photo from Facebook
The recently-hired administrator for the Petersburg Indian Association in Alaska is leaving her job today after cutting herself out of the tribe's budget, KSFK reports. Bobbi Scherrer was hired late last month and one of her first duties was preparing the budget. After making some cuts, she discovered that the tribe still had a shortfall so she proposed eliminating herself.
“We didn’t have the projected numbers we expected. And so, we know that there are certain corrective actions we’re already taking to make sure that everything is good to go for the future," Chair Barry Morrison told KSFK. "And Bobbi, bless her heart, saw what needed to be done, proposed it to us and through debate and everything else, the board decided that we would have to take her recommendations which was to eliminate that position for the fiscal year.”
Scherrer came to the tribe from the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium but it wasn't reported where she will be headed next. Get the Story:Budget deficit forces tribal administrator out in Petersburg (KSFK 2/27)
Tribal administrator position cut due to budget deficit (The Petersburg Pilot 2/26)
New tribal administrator joins PIA staff (The Petersburg Pilot 2/12)
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