Marko Dapcevich

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Marko Dapcevich (born 1969) is the current mayor of Sitka, Alaska.

[edit] Biography

Dapcevich was born in Sitka to John and Janice Dapcevich, a nurse and a business man of Montenegrin Serb origin. He attended Sitka School District schools culminating in his graduation from Sitka High School in 1987. From there he attended the University of Oregon and later graduated from Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon with a degree in automotive technology and attended University of Alaska Southeast in Sitka.^[1]

In 1994 he co-founded, with his brother, the Misty Fjords Water Company which he sold in 2004 and since 1998 has worked as a mailman for the United States Postal Service.

[edit] Political

Dapcevich was first elected in 2000 to a three-year term on the Sitka City and Borough Assembly and was re-elected in 2003 to another three year term, but his term was cut short when he won a two-year term as mayor in 2004 over the incumbent, Fred Reeder. In 2006 he won re-election to a second two-year term as mayor, beating former city administrator Gary Paxton. On December 7, 2007, Dapcevich announced his candidacy for the Alaska State Legistlature, House District 2. He was forced to withdraw because of the Hatch Act prohibiting federal employees from running for partisan political office.

[edit] References

1. ^ City of Sitka biography. Retrieved April 10, 2007.