The 2013 Sealaska Annual meeting will be in Hoonah, Alaska during the month of June. Sealaska directors Patrick Anderson, Sid Edenshaw, Jacki Peta and Byron Mallot all share one thing in common. None of them have been elected on the merits of their ideas. All are Sealaska appointees. This year, they will be the Sealaska endorsed nominees.
In fact, 8 of 13 of the current directors are all appointed and I believe none of them has an idea between them. Or shareholders would have seen it by now. We are at a low point now where Sealaska directors are appointing their own directors to fill vacancies.
This monopoly of discretionary directors is proving to shareholders it will take decades for this group to find itself. If you judge this group on its ideas, where are they?
Michael Lee Beasley
Juneau Sealaska Shareholder
Juneau
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Add commentBoard of Directors vs. Scholarships vs Executive compensation
Paid to 13 boardmembers for 13 board meetings in 2011 ($592,500.00)
Paid to 400 students in Sealaska scholarships for the year ($298,000.00)
Paid to 50 boardmembers and managers per MONTH ($650,000.00)
Our boardmembers have fallen on hard times, with ethics violations, election violations and fines, and another alleged DUI.
Draw your own conclusions.
Will be in Hoonah...
Good time to remind them of the hillsides across from them that Sealaska destroyed with clearcuts over the objections of the Hoonah Indian Association.
Maybe ask if you could get a picture of Rosita standing on a 12ft stump.
Lead is the key meaning of Leadership
Calisa Corporation Board of Directors in Dec 2012 amended four bylaws. The reason for the action was due to strong shareholder support. They amended bylaws to eliminate the designation of a Board Slate and Eliminate Cumulative Voting of Non-directed votes in Board solicited proxies.
The change is that the Nominating Committee will no longer be able to cumulatively vote those proxy votes; instead they will be required to vote all of the proxy votes by spreading the votes evenly across all of the candidates for office. There will no longer be a Board slate of the candidates.
The second amended bylaws to restrict knowledge of Directed Voting tally.
What it means: Until the final voting results are announced, no one may view or have knowledge of the directed voting results (with the exception of the independent firm selected to validate and count all the proxy votes). No one will be allowed to view the total voting tallies before they are finalized and announced to all Shareholders.
Sealaska Needs to Do this
Sealaska needs to do this.......but they won't.
Kookesh and Thomas went bust.
The Sealaska bill went bust.
The documentary "Musicwood" exposes the greed of the corporation (much to managements surprise).
Holding on to the purse strings of the corporation is all they have left. They'll channel all they're energy into controlling the stock and the shareholders as they have for the past four decades.
One things for sure, they'll take everything they can until the string runs out.
@Good
Perhaps the community could 'turn their backs' on them? It would also provide the opportunity to look at the nearly endless square miles denuded by Huna Corporation.....
Wow! Dominic...
Please say it's not true....
Is that you? Maybe it's somebody else?
Convicted of Felony theft? Three years in prison?
Restitution due to victim: $22,500 (according to the courts web site, still unpaid)
And all those other cases?
If I understand correctly,
If I understand correctly, Dominic Salvato is not running Sealaska ~ so why try to discredit him by bringing up his record like that? He is neither the writer of this letter, nor the subject of this letter. I smell misdirection.....smoke and mirrors, people. Sealaska Directors need to answer to their shareholders, not the other way around.
Never will.........
I 'll never pay it. My corporation Attorney Clay Keene was suspended from doing business deals for years after, the trail judge Thomas Schultz retired when the Alaska State Judicial conduct started investigating his and Keene's link to Tongass Reality, in connection with my case.
I was found not guilty, and found guilty on a lessor, and I refused publicly to ever pay restitution. I've never received anything from the state demanding payment and I have received my Alaska State permanent fund every year since, and I'm required to do jury duty every year. How do you explain that?
I welcome the opportunity do explore every aspect of my case, if one of you will write a letter to the editor, we can get into it without getting off topic.
I would like to add that I was appointed to the Alaska sentencing guidelines committee that set the grid for sentencing through out the state at that time, by Byron Mallott and the Anchorage Native Coccus.
Byron Mallott testified at trail for the defense, you should read his testimony. I would like to add one thing. Byron refused to let the people trying to extort my company end run me and deal with Sealaska directly, for this I will always be grateful. I've found no pleasure in opposing Byron concerning the Sealaska bill. On that subject, I simply believe he is wrong.
Twenty five years ago, one Alaska State Senator attempted to extort twenty thousand dollars out of me to do business, when I refused, I had a problem.
Sealaska suckups always resort to attacking the messenger when the criticism is making an impact. When it doesn't, they say nothing.
Back to the topic.......
Sealaska's management claims they harvest old growth trees, when harvesting means they created the trees.
Sealaska mines the trees, they take it without any input by the corporation and it will never be seen again in our life times.
Mr. Beasley is just saying, what idea did that involve?
Such a shame......
So many peoplel worked so hard to get the land claims settled all those years ago and look what is has come to. People who were supposed to benefit fighting constantly; people who should be receiving the benefits seem to be at the bottom of the list when it comes to handing them out; tribes destroying their own heritage so a corporation can increase profits-profits that never seem to end up where they should and a painful division between those who seem to "rank" at the top of all things and those left to sit and wait patiently for attention.
None of this was in anybody's mind when the hard work of resolution of the claims was grinding on and on.
So sad.
Seaalaska the
other corrupt %astards club.
I believe they worked hard in
I believe they worked hard in the beginning because they hoped ANCSA would bring prosperity for all.
In reality it's brought prosperity to very few.
As it is now the gap between our rich and our poor grows wider year after year. Our spoiled rich can't continue to profit off our disadvantaged poor.