Zerbetz v. Alaska Energy Center

OPINION

RABINO WITZ, Justice.

When the Legislature created the Alaska Energy Center (Center), it mandated six general goals and appropriated six million dollars.1 The Center’s newly constituted board of directors (Board) immediately began to search for an executive director. Ten months and two hundred applicants later, the Board decided to employ Gordon Zerbetz, who was then beginning another six-year term as chairman of the Alaska Public Utilities Commission (APUC). On March 13,1981, Board chairman John Purs-ley and Zerbetz signed the contract at issue in this case. It purported to define…