In the past, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough barred a company owned by Clayton “Mokie” Tew from bidding on contracts over noncompliance issues.
PALMER — A former Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly member could benefit from road contracts he says he gave advice on after receiving an exemption from a law specifically designed to block such conflicts.
Borough officials say Tew was not involved in rewriting or reformatting borough road maintenance contracts during a major overhaul before he left office last year. But Tew said in an interview last week that he did talk to public works officials about contracts, though he said the level of his involvement was not inappropriate.
Borough officials rejected that bid late last month because it violated a borough ethics law that prohibits former elected officials from holding or working on any borough contract for one year after leaving office, they said. That law is designed to block elected officials from working on contracts in which they might have a conflict of interest because of their influence while in office, officials said.
The exemption was narrowed to cover Battleground only by an amendment proposed by Assembly member Stephanie Nowers, whose district includes Palmer. The Assembly passed that limit 5-2. The new measure allowing Battleground to employ Mokie Tew on borough contracts is effective for all bids filed after the April 2 Assembly vote.
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