Alaska Public Media is a non-profit organization with member television and radio stations that are part of PBS, NPR and other public broadcasting networks.
 Formerly known as Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc., Alaska Public Media relies upon several funding sources, including member donations, state and federal dollars, and grants from private foundations, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and elsewhere.
The Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS) is a statewide network of low-powered television stations, serving 235 communities throughout the Alaskan Bush areas.
 The network is based in Anchorage, Alaska and is operated by Alaska Public Broadcasting, a joint venture of Alaska Public Media and Alaska's public broadcasters.
 Programming is beamed via satellite to the rural transmitters owned by the Alaska state government.
Walter Carleton "Walt" Monegan III (born May 1951) is the former Police Chief of Anchorage, Alaska, and later Commissioner of Public Safety for the state of Alaska.
 His dismissal in July 2008 by Alaska governor Sarah Palin drew considerable attention, particularly in the wake of Palin's selection as the Vice-Presidential nominee of the Republican Party the following month.
 Monegan accused Palin of not telling the truth about the reasons for his dismissal.
Talis James Colberg (born August 25, 1958) was appointed by Governor Sarah Palin as the seventeenth attorney general of Alaska on December 13, 2006.
 Colberg resigned in February 2009 over controversy over the Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal.
KAKM is a PBS member station serving Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
 Owned by Alaska Public Media, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 (or virtual channel 7 via PSIP) from a transmitter located atop the Knik TV Mast.
 KAKM maintains studios at the Elmo Sackett Broadcast Center on the campus of Alaska Pacific University.
 KAKM was the only PBS station in Alaska that was not part of AlaskaOne during its existence.
 The call letters were chosen to represent the 3 major geographic areas served by the station Anchorage, Kenai, and Matanuska.
 KAKM operates a full-time satellite station, KTOO-TV licensed to Juneau, Alaska.
 KTOO is owned by Capital Community Broadcasting - who owns and operates non-commercial FM radio stations KTOO (FM), KNLL, and KRNN - but is operated by Alaska Public Media.
 KTOO broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 (or virtual channel 3 via PSIP) from a transmitter in downtown Juneau.
 KTOO was formerly part of AlaskaOne, until is dissolvement in 2012.
The Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal, also known as Troopergate, involves the possibly illegal July 2008 dismissal of the Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner Walter C. Monegan III by Governor Sarah Palin for not firing Alaskan State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was also Palin's ex-brother-in-law.
Public safety agencies at various levels of government have joined together to share information and communicate when faced with public safety incidents.
 Interagency collaboration initiatives of this nature result in the creation of public safety networks.
 Public safety networks may originate at any level of government, and their user base may span a single or multiple geographies.
 This description focuses on public safety networks in the United States.
Sarah Louise Palin ( ; née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator, and author who served as the ninth Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009.
 As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election alongside presidential nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major political party and the first Republican woman selected as a vice presidential candidate.
 Her book "Going Rogue" has sold more than two million copies.
The Vermont State Police (VSP) is the state police agency for the US state of Vermont.
 The force has jurisdiction throughout the entire state.
 The Vermont Public Safety Commission directs policy and selects the commander.
 The commander is Colonel Matthew Birmingham.
 The Vermont Public Safety Commissioner is Keith W. Flynn.
 There are 327 sworn state troopers.
Littleberry Calhoun Allen, Jr. (February 8, 1921 – February 23, 1991), was a two-term Democratic mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, the state's third largest city.
 From 1962-1970, he was the municipal public utilities commissioner.
 He also served some two months as a "District B" city council member after his election in the fall of 1990.
 The racially moderate Allen presided over a formerly segregated Shreveport, but there was much unrest in the black community during his tenure.
 Public Safety Commissioner George W. D'Artois had resigned in a swirl of corruption accusations though none reached directly to Allen.
 By the end of Allen's tenure, City Hall controversies produced a sense of stagnation even though Allen had worked for industrial development and public works projects, one of which bears his name.

Question: The Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal involved a firing by the politician who resigned in what year?
Answer: 2009