Anchorage Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel, whose day job is as the executive director of the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, said that she will resign from the nonprofit later this year.
During her dual roles, the Anchorage Assembly has awarded millions of dollars to the agency, which is the coordinating group for many of the various charities who serve people living without secure shelter.
Zaletel, who is vice chair of the Assembly, is also leaving her position on the Assembly, as she did not run for reelection in April.
Last week, Must Read Alaska published the 2023 audit of her homelessness coalition, which revealed many flaws in financial management of the organization, some of which were serious.
Zaletel is also the subject of a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination by a former employee, who said the workplace environment was toxic and the organization was financially mismanaged.
Zaletel has been a polarizing figure in local politics, particularly because of her dual roles as appropriator and the head of a nonprofit that gets millions of taxpayer dollars and appears to have little to show for itself.
In fact, during her tenure, there has been a 54% increase in the homeless population of Anchorage, far from the organization’s goal of homelessness being “rare, brief, and one-time.”
Zaletel is also known for never putting her hand on her heart or saying the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of Assembly meetings. She has sponsored an ordinance, however, mandating that the woke “land acknowledgement” statement be posted prominently on the wall wherever the Assembly meets.
Follow the money.
Ditto.
the graft of the politburo too good?
Some people spend their lives trying to help those in need, and improve the community in which they live.
Others just try to find fault and tear them down.
And most of our politicians spend their lives profiting on public grant funds off the human misery and ever growing homeless industry.
The more spent the richer the elite become and the problem is just a growth industry.
Some people pretend to help others in need but only help themselves and abuse their position and play power tricks. It’s unfortunate others are gullible or willfully ignorant and unable to see it.
So. It’s okay to take 100K a year for the last 5 years while doing absolutely nothing to help the bums. The “fault” here us that she’s just like any other politician who gets rich off of the common W2 employee. Not only was it her NGO but she was on the governing body that funded it. If that’s not at minimum a conflict, it’s definitely dirty as a bums rear end. She was outed and is quitting, not because it’s the right thing to do but because she was caught. So yeah, I’m pleased she was “torn down”.
Hey Dog, when was the last time you actually donated to MRAK?
When there is fault to find, it isn’t hard to point it out. But of course, you cheer on corruption so it is only fitting you would make such a comment, agent.
Have you seen the “help” you are even speaking about? You cannot live lives for those who don’t or won’t live it for themselves.
Maybe instead of throwing money at everything and being expecting the problem to fix itself, you can go pick up all the garbage left behind by the vagrant.
Dawg, there also are those who find a path to enrichment by appropriation of public funds into their own pockets.
Of course since Zaletel only had the best of intentions, you’re cool with the dumpster fire she helped ignite?
Virtue signal much?
And some prey on the sympathies and naiveté of their fellow man to the detriment of society. Dog, did you miss the part about a 54% INCREASE in homelessness, at the cost of MILLIONS of your grandchildren’s dollars?
…And that appears to be your role here, Dog, just tearing down people who are trying to make the world a better place. As for your friend Meg Zaletel, she has done handsomely ‘helping the poor’. She makes at least $150,000 a year (according to the IRS, ‘https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/461156688_202206_990_2023060921425737.pdf , her predecessor made $156K, no documents available at IRS since she took over).
Plus the $60,000 she gets for sitting on the assembly, plus the $500 monthly assembly stipend.
That pops her into a high-income tier in Anchorage. She enriches herself and her allies off of her play-acting as Mother Teresa. This is the scam perpetuated by so many NGOs that are siphoning from the economy with no demonstrated positive outcomes. Zaletel is Queen of the Scam. You are her vassal.
This parasite is likely going into politics. As all Enders do. Running. It’s what they do. She’ll be getting her campaign support from Arabella/Soros//1630 & 907Inish#tive.
She has no talents, no accomplishments, but does have a long dark list of division, racism and conflict.
Must be another idiot relative or fellow grifter in need of a scam. Didn’t Perez-Verdia just lose a grant he was laundering?
The word “nonprofit” always struck me as a cover for its true intent: “thievery.”
Bye Bye – Good riddance (I hope).
She should get in touch with Gabriel Ladoo’s lawyer.
There’s only one solution to homelessness, lock them up with mandatory treatment for drugs/alcohol, mental health treatment then reintegrate back into society for success, fail again? Go through it again. Nothing else has worked.
Zaletel discovered the USAID taxpayer gravy train will no longer be doling out $$$ to her money laundering “nonprofit.” Will be interesting to see what shakes out with the lawsuit of her former employee, especially if that person has concrete proof of money mis-management by Zaletel.
Bronson and crew fought the Homeless Industrial Complex.
He saw the millions and millions of your dollars going into admin pockets and not to directly benefit the most needy.
He tried to use agencies like Catholic Social Services and the Salvation Army. For that, he was even attacked more than before. The only reasons the libtards on the MOA assembly could find to attack them was they are faith based…..sad reason.
The Salvation Army SHOULD be the Anchorage CoC coordinating agency, NOT the ACEH. They were dealing with drug addiction, mental illness and homelessness for decades in Anchorage before the sexy CoVid funding got Meg and crew RICH.
Take away the sexy funding and watch interest die right off.
Squirreled enough away to disappear? or enough to run for something else to ruin? or did someone establish a homeless camp in her front yard? Adios and good riddance.
The state is filled with woke parasites from the assembly to the senate in DC and should all be investigated for the whereabouts of the cares act money by DOGE.
Maybe if we could get them to spray Ivermectin in those chemtrails, we could eliminate a few of these parasites.
Hopefully we will see more of this, rats fleeing a sinking ship, get out of Dodge before DOJ shows up? Praying this is the case!