He selected Cheryl Frasca to be the city’s new director of the Office of Management and Budget. She is the former director of the Alaska Office of Management and Budget under Gov. Frank Murkowski and a former city budget director.

Nancy Usera will serve as the director of labor relations. She is a former commissioner of labor and commissioner of administration for the state of Alaska.

Greg Jones will head up the Office of Economic and Community Development. He was vice president for real estate development for CIRI.

The appointment of each of the new department heads must be approved by the Anchorage Assembly.

This article published in The Alaska Star on Thursday, July 2, 2009.