Assembly removes Pat Daniels from Big Lake RSA 21 after members and public raise conduct concerns

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly voted on May 20 to remove Pat Daniels from the Big Lake Road Service Area (RSA) 21 Board of Supervisors, after a heated process that began as a proposal to remove all five board members and was amended to target Daniels alone.

Assemblymember Bill Gamble moved the original resolution to remove all board members from RSA 21, then offered and carried an amendment narrowing the action to a single member, Pat Daniels. Gamble said he had attended an April RSA 21 meeting where public attendees left after a meeting discussion “digressed” into allegations about borough administration spending and the meeting became “embarrassing.” He told the assembly that four of the five board members had “stopped engaging in activities and tactics” cited in the information memorandum, but that Daniels had not.

The amended resolution recited multiple…