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# Mayoral candidate Ken Clark weighs in on his decision to run for mayor
- URL: https://ktna.org/mayoral-candidate-ken-clark-weighs-in-on-his-decision-to-run-for-mayor/
- Published: 2011-01-03T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-01-03T09:00:00.000Z
- Description: My name is Kenneth Clark. I have been an Alaska resident since 1974 (36-years). 3. How long have I lived in Mat-Su borough? I purchased a home in the valley
- Author: KTNA Staff
- Tags: Local News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 01:28

My name is Kenneth Clark.  
I have been an Alaska resident since 1974 (36-years).

3\. How long have I lived in Mat-Su borough?  
I purchased a home in the valley (Mat-Su borough) in 1985 (25-years).

4\. What is my motive for running for mayor?  
Over the past 25 years there have been many people elected mayor of our Mat-Su borough.  
I have served as member on the Mat-Su borough citizen’s budget advisory committee.  
I have served as a Road Service Area (RSA) supervisor.  
During this time I have seen many residents become frustrated with the results of the borough assembly’s actions and/or inactions. Borough property taxes have continued to go up. Tax payer money has been spent on projects that appear to have little preplanning.

5\. Do you think you can make a change?  
My goal as mayor will be to work with all borough departments to develop and implement long range plans and to give voters a wider choice of candidates.

6\. What experience do I have running meetings and selecting boards?  
Over the past 36 years I have worked in the telecommunications (telephone) business in Alaska.  
I have served as vice-president of operations for an Alaska company providing local telephone service to bush communities. During that time I worked with and coordinated loan negotiations with the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) to finance and build six new switching and outside plant systems in bush communities.  
I worked for Anchorage Telephone Utility for 13 years as a senior telephone switch engineer and as manager of inside plant engineering. In that capacity I supervised up to eleven telecommunications (switching) engineers and coordinated projects ranging up to 15-million dollars.

7\. What are my political affiliations?  
I am an undeclared.

8\. What are political affiliations who would you likely be compared to or LIKE to be compared to politically?  
As stated in #7 above I do not have any major political party connections. In the past I have been a republican and a democrat. I became totally frustrated with both party platforms and chose undeclared.