Village Public Safety Officer report Tom Berner presented the information he had gathered. Through a contract and grant Tlingit-Haida administers the program. The state provides the salary for the officer, training, uniforms etc. Local communities are asked to provide an office with a phone, a holding cell, a vehicle and to help the officer find housing. Typically a city owned public utility would pay for the officer's utilities.
Some cities provide a stipend in addition to the officer's salary.
Glacier Bay National Park, through an agreement with the State of Alaska, has one or more rangers who are entitled to serve papers and do law enforcement duties within the community when necessary. However, due to mounting legal concerns nationally, the National Park Service is in the process of withdrawing their law enforcement services from areas outside their boundaries, i.e. areas such as Gustavus. We will therefore be in a vacuum with no law enforcement officer available except by plane. Alaska Airlines also has an agreement with the park to supply a law enforcement officer should they need one. I.e. a gun found on a passenger.