Borough Consultants
The Borough staff is five people strong. Rather than hire additional full time employees, the Assembly has chosen to hire individuals with specialized skills on contract.
Bob Loeffler, Jade North LLC
Bob has a long history working with land and resources issues in Alaska, most of it in government. This work includes issues involving land planning, mining, oil and gas, and forestry. While much has been at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Bob took breaks to go back to graduate school, and to work as the Planning Director of the Exxon Valdez Trustee Council, as an economist with the Alaska Power Authority, and as a private consultant. In 1996, Bob returned to DNR to coordinate Alaska’s large-mine permitting process, and then served for seven years Director of the Division of Mining, Land and Water. After leaving DNR in 2005, he joined Jade North, LLC. Jade North is a small consulting firm specializing in natural resource issues. A significant part of his work with the firm involves mining, permitting, and policy issues for industry, local government, and Native Corporations. Bob also serves as a Visiting Professor position at the University of Alaska, Institute of Social and Economic Research half-time. Bob has a passion for resource issues, and has taught UAA courses in public land management, the mining industry, and how to talk about contentious issues.
