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About Bryce Ward

City of North Pole Mayor, 2012 – 2018
FNSB mayor, 2018 – 2024

Bryce Ward is a lifelong Alaskan and a graduate of Lathrop High School and the University of Alaska ����vlog����. Bryce has served two consecutive terms as mayor of the city of North Pole 2012-2018 and the ����vlog���� North Star borough, 2018-2024. Ward is a general contractor and is passionate about building quality homes for people to own and rent. When not working on a project Bryce enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, he is especially fond of going to ‘the cabin’ where cell phones don’t work. Bryce loves the interior and working with people to solve our complex problems.

About Luke T. Hopkins

FNSB mayor, 2004 – 2015

Luke arrived in ����vlog���� in August 1966 to attend the University of Alaska. During the years living on campus, he enjoyed learning to skydive and hot air balloon pilot training under Stan Zielinski, among many other adventures in Alaska’s wonderful Interior.

Luke is married to writer Elyse Guttenberg and has two adult children Selena Hopkins Kendall and Grier Hopkins – and Luke enjoys his 3 grandchildren, all currently in Alaska.

In 1997, Luke was challenged to “do something about what’s being decided by our local government”, so he was appointed to the FNSB Planning Commission and served on that body until elected to the FNSB Assembly in 2004.

Then in 2004, Luke was elected to the FNSB Assembly that began his two 3 year terms, voting on local issues and ending with serving as the presiding officer.

In 2009, Luke entered the FNSB Mayor race as one of 6 candidates, winning that race but requiring a run off election against Tammy Wilson. On November 3rd, Luke won that special election to become the mayor.

2012, Luke was re-elected to his second 3-year term as Borough Mayor with a 23% voter turnout.

During Luke’s 6 years as mayor, he fought back on the closing of Eielson Air Force Base through visiting Washington DC’s Pentagon officials and federal elected officials numerous times.

Besides the successful efforts keeping our established military presence within the Borough and additional Alaskan areas for military exercises, he assembled a collective leadership group to bring together Alaskan leaders in a “Tiger Team” effort of local, state and national elected and appointed leaders that could ensure opportunities for our military activity.

Through his various capital improvement efforts as mayor, funding was approved by the Assembly for a new North Pole Borough library to be built – a major facility replacement.

A long-term effort to improve area-wide air quality has been approached through increasing compliance by local, state funding programs and federal increasingly restrictive emission rules. Wood burning emissions have improved slightly through a major funded effort by our borough receiving State pass-through of EPA funding for wood stove change-out programs.

His last mayoral proposed program approved by the Assembly was establishing a new local public utility, the Interior Natural Gas utility (IGU), delivering natural gas, acquired through the transfer of gas utility powers by the two cities within the FNSB , ����vlog���� city & the North Pole city, to allow a borough-wide delivery of clean burning fuel by this newly established public utility with a long term financing agreement with the private utility.