Posted: 7/24/2015 2:12:49 PM EDT
http://www.adn.com/article/20150723/north-slope-borough-funded-basketball-camp-mayor-s-grandkids-records-show
The North Slope Borough paid $8,400 to fly five of Mayor Charlotte Brower’s grandchildren from Barrow to a basketball camp in California last August, according to borough documents.
The documents, contained in a response to an Alaska Dispatch News records request, show Brower’s signature approving the use of borough funds for three of her grandchildren’s fees and flights for the trip to the camp in Santa Barbara.
The records also detail tens of thousands of dollars of cakes and crafts purchased from two of Brower’s daughters by her office and other borough departments over the last several years.
The borough paid more than $500 apiece for some of the cakes. They were consumed at borough holiday celebrations, employee retirement parties, and even Brower’s own birthday, the documents said View Quote
But one of the documents provided by the borough has a handwritten notation saying, “7-11-14 Approved Charlotte Brower” at the bottom of the letter requesting help for the basketball camp.
The five-day camp is called “Michael Jordan Flight School” and bills itself as featuring instruction from “the greatest basketball player of all time.” In her July 10, 2014, letter asking Brower for the money, Brower’s adult daughter, Mary Jo Olemaun, described the camp as a “once in a lifetime event” for her three children and the two children of her sister, Crystal Tula’i -- Brower’s grandchildren. The letter said that Tula’i would be escorting the children.
The North Slope Borough wrote a $7,405 check to Olemaun, the records show.
The borough, at the request of the mayor’s office, paid another $1,000 to cover partial costs for Tula’i’s two children. View Quote
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