Cheryl Frasca is taking over as the director of the Municipality of Anchorage’s Office of Management and Budget, Mayor Dave Bronson said Tuesday.
Frasca previously worked in the same position under Mayor George Wuerch, and in Mayor Dan Sullivan’s administration. She was also the head of the statewide Office of Management and Budget from 2002 to 2006, when Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski was in office.
“Cheryl is one of the top financial minds in the entire state of Alaska,” Mayor Dave Bronson said in a prepared statement Tuesday afternoon. “I am elated that she has agreed to once again serve the people of Anchorage as we work together to help our great city prosper.”
Up until this point, Deputy Director Marilyn Banzhaf had served as the head of OMB in an acting capacity.
Frasca was a member of Bronson’s transition team earlier this summer. She has also co-chaired a fiscal policy study group for Commonwealth North, a nonpartisan public policy forum.
Last October, she co-authored an opinion piece published in the Daily News calling on Alaskans, and candidates for public office in particular, to come up with fiscal policies to balance the state’s budget, directing readers to an interactive website where they could check the efficacy of different proposals at closing the state’s budget gap.