Guide to the Norman Rokeberg papers
1974-2007
Collection number: HMC-0945.
Creator: Rokeberg, Norman.
Title: Norman Rokeberg papers.
Dates: 1974-2007.
Volume of collection: 19.2 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Collection materials are in English.
Collection summary: The papers of a commercial real estate broker and member of the Alaska State House of Representatives from Anchorage.
Biographical note:
Hans Norman Rokeberg was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1943. He graduated from Anchorage High School in 1961, and served in the U.S. Army in Europe from 1964 to 1966. He later attended Willamette University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1971. After returning to Anchorage, he continued his business career, begun in 1967, as a commercial real estate broker and small business owner. In 1994, he was elected to the Alaska State House of Representatives from Anchorage, and was reelected five times. During his legislative career, he chaired the following committees: Special Committee on Oil and Gas (1995-1996), Labor and Commerce (1997-2000), Judiciary (2001-2002), and Rules (2003-2006). He ran unsuccessfully for Alaska State Senate in 2006. He has also been active as a member of several political and governmental councils, assemblies, boards and commissions, as well as participating in numerous community organizations and playing recreational hockey.
Collection description:
The collection consists of the papers of Representative Norman Rokeberg of Anchorage. The collection is divided into four series: real estate files, campaign files, legislative files, and hockey files. The real estate files include information about leases and purchases of buildings in Anchorage, as well as reports by Rokeberg on the commercial real estate market. The campaign files include campaign budgets, fundraising, district maps, advertising and mailers, position papers, speeches, voter statistics, and newsletters from Rokeberg’s political campaigns. The legislative files include financial disclosures, bill files, and legislative accomplishments, as well as subject files relating to natural gas development, utilities, subsistence, the Permanent Fund, and the state budget. The hockey files consist of two folders containing rosters, schedules, notes, and rules pertaining to recreational hockey in Anchorage.
Arrangement: The collection is arranged into the following series:
Series 1: Real estate files; 1974-1993
Series 2: Campaign files; 1975, 1990-2006
Series 3: Legislative files; 1994-2007
Series 4: Hockey; 1972-1984
Digitized copies: Digital copies of collection material not available online. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Rights note: The Archives holds copyright to collection materials authored by Norman Rokeberg only.
Preferred citation: Norman Rokeberg papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Related materials: For other legislators’ papers held by the Archives, please see our topical guide to Alaska State Legislators and Legislation.
Acquisition note: The collection was given to the Archives by Norman Rokeberg in 2007. Additional material was donated by Rokeberg in 2018.
Processing information: This collection was arranged and described by Jeffrey Sinnott in 2008. The finding aid was converted to this standardized format by Arlene Schmuland in 2011. Additional material was added to the collection guide in 2018 by Gwen Higgins.
Container list:
Series 1: Real estate files; 1974-1993. 2.2 cubic feet.
| Box | Description | Date |
| 1 | CIRI Building; IBM final lease; Appraisal Lot 7 & 8 110 O.T.; Lee to sales file Lot 9A, B 82 OT; MONY Building work file; National Bank of Alaska; floor plan and listing; Nordsworth survey; Resolution Plaza working file; Sale and lease back; Zeppo’s working file; Marx Brothers lease; 8th and A liquor license; Masek/Jones Lang Wooton; Calais II quarterly reports; 550 West 7th Avenue | 1977-1992 |
| 2 | 550 West 7th Avenue; Calais II building operating costs; B.M. Behrends Bank correspondence; State of Alaska lease; Project E.W. Code “O.C.” State of Alaska lease; Calais Office Center I and II; Lease Department management plan; Rokeberg income reports; correspondence; sales reports; commissions; Sekoula Beach Estate, Fiji; office building space survey data and; Downtown comparables; summary of existing office buildings; speech to Anchorage Chamber of Commerce on office space; Masek Group International; Anchorage Rescue Mission sale; “Rokeberg Report: Office Space Anchorage Market Analysis” | 1974-1993 |
| 3 | “Rokeberg Report;” leasing lecture; Anchorage Downtown: Original Townsite L7, 8, 9, 9A, 10A, 11, 12B70; CIRI Building brochure; office space data | 1980-1991 |
Series 2: Campaign files; 1975, 1990-2006. 1.6 cubic feet
Material relating to Rokeberg’s political campaigns, arranged in chronological order.
| Box | Description | Date |
| 3 | Campaigns: Greater Anchorage Area Borough and Alaska House of Representatives. Campaign budgets, fundraising, district maps, advertising and mailers, position papers, speeches, voter statistics, newsletters | 1975, 1990-2000 |
| 4 | Campaigns: Alaska House of Representatives and Alaska Senate: Campaign budgets, fundraising, district maps, advertising and mailers, position papers, speeches, voter statistics, newsletters | 2002-2006 |
Series 3: Legislative files; 1994-2007. 15.38 cubic feet.
Material relating to specific bills are arranged by year and bill number. Legislative accomplishments are arranged chronologically. Other legislative files are roughly grouped by topic.
| Box/
Folder |
Description | Date |
| 4/30-39 | Financial disclosures and conflict of interest statements | 2000-2007 |
| 5/1-5 | House Bill 207: Royalty reduction for non-producing oil and gas leases | 1995 |
| 5/6 | House Bill 287: Outdoor advertising on trash receptacles and restrictions on outdoor advertising | 1995 |
| 5/7-9 | House Bills 226 and 227, Senate Bill 38: Marriage legislation | 1995-1996 |
| 5/10-12 | House Bill 339: Parental rights | 1996 |
| 5/13-15 | House Bill 372: Restaurant liquor licenses | 1996 |
| 5/16-18 | House Bill 384: Pioneer Home rent | 1996 |
| 5/19-21 | House Bill 388: Oil/gas leasing/best interest findings | 1996 |
| 6/1-4 | House Bill 388: Oil/gas leasing/best interest findings (continued) | 1996 |
| 6/5-8 | House Bill 393: Managed care for recipients of medical assistance | 1996 |
| 6/9-10 | House Bill 394: Shallow natural gas leasing | 1996 |
| 6/11-12 | House Bill 446: Nuisance injunctions | 1996 |
| 6/13-15 | House Bill 478: Real estate documents | 1996 |
| 6/16 | Legislative Resolution 3: Endorsing ANWR Leasing | 1997 |
| 6/17-18 | House Bill 41: Impairment rating guides used in evaluating workers’ compensation claims | 1997 |
| 6/19-20 | House Bill 222: Abandoned, wrecked or junk vehicles | 1997 |
| 6/21 | Senate Bill 178: Hunt Building purchase by State of Alaska | 1997 |
| 7/1-4 | Senate Bill 178: Hunt Building purchase by State of Alaska (continued) | 1997 |
| 15/1 | House Bill 237: Minimum wage for tipped employees | 1997 |
| 7/5-13 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Master File | 1998 |
| 7/14-15 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Date and Meeting | 1998 |
| 7/16-22 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Letters | 1998 |
| 8/1 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Letters (continued) | 1998 |
| 8/2-5 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Affinity Group | 1998 |
| 8/6-7 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Legal Services and Other Legal Opinions | 1998 |
| 8/8-9 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Miscellaneous News, Procuring Cause | 1998 |
| 8/10-12 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Miscellaneous Procuring Cause | 1998 |
| 8/13 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Norman’s Notes | 1998 |
| 8/14 | House Bill 33: Real estate licensing: Amerinet and Veterans | 1998 |
| 8/15-22 | House Bill 51: Department of Environmental Conservation water penalties | 1998 |
| 9/1-6 | House Bill 51: Department of Environmental Conservation water penalties (continued) | 1998 |
| 9/7-8 | House Bill 458: Golf course alcoholic beverage licenses | 1998 |
| 9/9 | Senate Bill 305: Injured worker reemployment and benefit eligibility | 1998 |
| 9/10-11 | House Bill 472: Apportionment of business income | 1998 |
| 9/12 | House Bill 484: Unemployment exempt amateur sports officials | 1998 |
| 9/13-15 | House Bill 13: Regulation of escrow accounts – “Good Funds” | 1999 |
| 9/16-18 | House Bill 69: Alcoholic Beverage Control Board | 1999 |
| 9/17 | House Bill 79: Letters of Credit | 1999 |
| 9/19-21 | House Bill 82: Y2K limited immunity for private sector | 1999 |
| 10/1 | House Bill 82: Y2K limited immunity for private sector | 1999 |
| 10/2 | House Bill 83: Alaska Securities Act | 1999 |
| 10/3 | House Bill 123: Minimum wage and overtime exemptions | 1999 |
| 10/4-5 | House Bill 143: Real estate surety fund and commission | 1999 |
| 10/6 | House Bill 158: Insurance cancellation of the elderly | 1999 |
| 10/7-8 | House Bill 201: Overtime compensation computation | 1999 |
| 10/9-12 | House Bill 37: Cigarette sales, education and cessation program | 2000 |
| 6/13-14 | House Bill 67: Bail hearings for sex offenders | 2000 |
| 10/15-20 | House Bill 211: Managed care insurance plans | 2000 |
| 10/21-23 | House Bill 76: New facilities for Alaska Psychiatric Institute | 2001 |
| 11/1-5 | House Judiciary Bills: House Bills 132, 179, 189 and 200 | 2001 |
| 11/6-10 | House Bill 4: Drunk driving: Bill Versions | 2002 |
| 11/11-13 | House Bill 4: Drunk driving: Amendments and Legal Services | 2002 |
| 11/14-16 | House Bill 4: Drunk driving: Packets, Agency Letters and General Letters | 2002 |
| 11/17-19 | House Bill 4: Drunk driving: Wellness Court, Research and Notes | 2002 |
| 11/20-21 | House Bill 4: Drunk driving: Fiscal Notes | 2002 |
| 12/1-2 | House Bill 4: Drunk driving: Fiscal Notes | 2002 |
| 12/3-6 | House Bill 4: Drunk driving: News Articles | 2002 |
| 12/7-8 | House Bill 330: Brewpub licenses and providing alcoholic beverages to minors | 2002 |
| 12/9 | House Bill 381: Failure to stop for peace officer | 2002 |
| 12/10 | House Bill 470: Common interest ownership – offering statements | 2002 |
| 12/11 | House Bill 499: Successor liability for product liability: 2002 | |
| 12/12 | House Bill 501: Unclaimed property to pay court-ordered restitution | 2002 |
| 12/13-16 | House Bill 9: Home inspectors/contractors | 2003 |
| 12/17-21 | House Bill 11: Deposits to the permanent fund | 2003 |
| 12/22 | House Bill 28: Oil and gas royalty modification | 2003 |
| 12/23 | House Bill 195: State health insurance plan | 2003 |
| 12/24 | House Bill 199: Delete minimum wage inflation-proofing | 2003 |
| 13/1-3 | House Bill 257: Real estate licensees – duties and claims | 2003 |
| 13/4 | House Resolution 7: Resources room named after Ramona Barnes | 2004 |
| 13/5 | House Concurrent Resolution 16: Uniform rules – Mason’s manual meetings | 2004 |
| 15/2 | House Bill 11: Permanent Fund contributions | 2004 |
| 13/6-9 | House Bill 29: Real property transactions/licensees | 2004 |
| 13/10-12 | House Bill 255: Wage and Hour Act | 2004 |
| 13/13-14 | House Bill 563: Legislative procedures and ethics guidelines | 2004 |
| 13/15-17 | House Bill 563: Legislative procedures and ethics guidelines: Background | 2004 |
| 13/18 | House Bill 98: Nonunion public employee salary and benefit | 2005 |
| 13/19 | House Bill 136: Driving under influence sentencing | 2005 |
| 13/20 | House Bill 169: Real estate licensees | 2005 |
| 13/21-22 | House Bill 182: Wage and Hour Act | 2005 |
| 13/23 | House Bill 215: Permanent Fund Corporation | 2005 |
| 13/24 | House Bill 29: Alaska Comprehensive Health Insurance Association | 2006 |
| 14/1 | House Bill 29: Alaska Comprehensive Health Insurance Association | 2006 |
| 14/2-3 | House Bill 441: Therapeutic court for DUI/sentencing | 2006 |
| 14/4 | House Bill 485: State pharmacists/doctors – exempt service | 2006 |
| 14/5 | Senate Concurrent Resolution 401, House Bills 4001 and 4002: Same-sex partner employment benefits | 2006 |
| 15/3 | Senate Bill 186: Executive Ethics Act | 2006 |
| 15/4-5 | House Bill 240: Brewery and Brewpub licenses | 2006 |
| 15/6 | House Bill 253: Gasline and power grid | 2006 |
| 15/7 | House Bill 254: Gas spur line and distribution grid | 2006 |
| 15/8-20 | House Bill 488/Senate Bill 305: Petroleum production tax. | 2006 |
| 16/1-3 | House Bill 498: Petroleum production tax | 2006 |
| 16/4 | House Bill/Senate Bill 2001: Petroleum production tax | 2006 |
| 16/5 | House Bill 3001: Oil and gas taxation | 2006 |
| 14/6 | End of Session GOP Talking Points | 1996 |
| 14/7-8 | 19th Legislature Accomplishments | 1996 |
| 14/9 | Adjournment Package, 20th Alaska Legislature | 1997-1998 |
| 14/10-11 | 20th Legislature Accomplishments | 1998 |
| 14/12-13 | 21st Alaska Legislature: Norman’s Notebook | 1999-2000 |
| 14/14 | Adjournment Packet, 21st Alaska Legislature | 1999 |
| 14/15 | 2000 Accomplishments: 21st Alaska State Legislature | 2000 |
| 14/16 | Rep. Norman Rokeberg’s Book, 22nd Legislature | 2001-2002 |
| 14/17-18 | 1st Session Achievement Package, 23rd Alaska State Legislature | 2003 |
| 14/19 | Achievement Package, 23rd Alaska State Legislature | 2004 |
| 14/20 | 1st Session Achievement Package, 24th Alaska State Legislature (House Speaker John Harris) | 2005 |
| 14/21 | 1st Session Achievement Package, 24th Alaska State Legislature (Senate President Ben Stevens) | 2005 |
| 16/6-16 | Stranded Gas Development Act reports and notes from contract presentations | 2006 |
| 16/17 | Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority | 2005 |
| 16/18 | Four Dam Pool | 1995-1999 |
| 16/19 | Matanuska Valley electricity dispute | 2004 |
| 16/20 | 68 million Railbelt electricity | 2003-2006 |
| 16/21 | Power cost equalization | 1996-2005 |
| 17/1 | Electric utility restructuring | 1999 |
| 17/2-3 | Power pooling study | 1998 |
| 17/4 | Alaska Power Association resolution and speech | 2004-2005 |
| 17/5-7 | The Energy Council Federal Energy and Environmental Matters Conference | 1995-2006 |
| 17/8 | “Review of the Geologic and Hydrologic Studies Related to the Proposed Kincaid Estates Subdivision, Anchorage, Alaska” | 2004 |
| 17/9 | Sand Lake gravel pit | 2003-2006 |
| 17/10-12 | Permanent Fund information binders | 1986-2002 |
| 17/13 | Subsistence handbook | 2002 |
| 17/14-17 | Subsistence: Venetie cases | 1996-1997 |
| 17/18 | Subsistence handbook | 1999 |
| 17/19-20 | Subsistence cases | 1995-2001 |
| 17/21-18/1 | Subsistence sourcebook | 1998 |
| 18/2-5 | Subsistence book 1 | circa 1995 |
| 18/6 | Budget | 2004 |
| 18/7 | Fiscal plan Alaska Daily News series | 2003 |
| 18/8 | Long Range Fiscal Planning Commission | 1994-1996 |
| 18/9 | Republican Caucus | 2003 |
| 18/10 | Majority retreat | 2002 |
| 18/11 | House of Representatives meeting transcript and notes | 2000 |
| 18/12 | Permanent Fund memorandum | 2003 |
| 18/13 | Conservative philosophy | 1997 |
| 18/14 | Permanent Fund percentage of market value (POMV)special session | 2004 |
| 18/15 | Post advisory vote/PFD | 1999 |
| 18/16 | Permanent Fund appropriations, formulas | 2004 |
| 18/17 | Permanent Fund Constitutional Budget Reserve (CBR)/cash flow | 1999 |
| 18/18 | Permanent Fund | 2004 |
| 18/19 | Ways and Means Committee | 2003 |
| 18/20 | Permanent Fund memoranda | 2001-2006 |
| 18/21 | Permanent Fund constitutional amendment | 2004 |
| 18/22 | Understanding Alaska report | 2006 |
| 18/23 | Ways and Means corporate tax issues | 2004 |
| 18/24 | House budget (articles) | 1991 |
| 18/25 | Alaska budget reports | 1995 |
| 18/26 | Alaska budget reports and notes | 1992-1996 |
| 18/27 | Special session | 2004 |
| 19/1 | Alaska state budget reports and notes | 2004 |
| 19/2 | Conference of Alaska | 2004 |
| 19/3 | Long range fiscal planning | 1995 |
| 19/4 | Ways and Means state fiscal situation report | 2003 |
| 19/5 | Constitutional budget reserve | 2001 |
| 19/6 | Permanent Fund distribution | 2004 |
| 19/7 | State revenue | 2004 |
| 19/8 | State fiscal conditions | 2003 |
| 19/9 | Fiscal gap | 2003 |
| 19/10-11 | Budget plans | 1999- 2004 |
| 19/12 | Fall revenue | 2004 |
| 19/13 | Leadership: notes, memoranda, reports | 2004 |
| 19/14 | Issues: state budget, bribery loophole, therapeutic courts, same-sex partner benefits | 2006-2007 |
| 19/15 | “Wood Mackenzie Report on Global Oil & Gas Risks and Rewards” | 2004 |
| 19/16 | Organization 24th Legislature | 2004 |
| 19/17 | Alaska Department of Revenue municipal and public debt tables | 2005 |
| 19/18 | Alaska Retirement Management Board final report | 2006 |
| 19/19 | Way and Means Public Employees’ Retirement System presentation | 2003 |
| 19/20 | Statehood Compact Office of the Governor video | 1994 |
| 19/21 | Nancy Dahlstrom articles | 2005-2006 |
| 19/22 | “Shit List” House of Representatives vote records with highlighted names and notes | 2005 |
| 19/23 | Letter to Chief of Staff Jim Clark regarding House Bill 199 | 2003 |
| 19/24 | “Minority” information about state budget appropriations | 2004 |
| 19/25 | Reactions to Eric Croft’s August 26, 2003 Juneau Empire opinion piece on the state budget | 2003 |
| 19/26 | Representative Tom Anderson, financial disclosure articles | 2006 |
| 19/27 | Therapeutic courts | 2007 |
| 19/28 | Caucus (budget) | 1999 |
| 19/29 | Budget gridlock | 1996 |
| 19/30 | GOP GAP Plan | 1996 |
| 19/31 | Long Range Financial Planning Commission | 1996 |
| 19/32 | Tribal sovereignty | 1995 |
| 19/33 | Mercatus Center Capital Campus | 2005 |
| 19/34 | Issues | 2004 |
| 19/35 | Kodiak Ways and Means meeting | 2003 |
| 19/36 | “22nd Alaska State Legislature Republican-Led Majority Organization: 2001-1st Session Accomplishments” | 2001 |
| 19/37 | Budget articles and notes | 2002 |
| 19/38 | Pro-choice | 1996 |
| 19/39 | “Urgent” correspondence, clippings, press releases | 2002 |
| 19/40 | Open meetings | 2004 |
| OSF | Legislative group portraits | 1995-2006 |
Series 4: Hockey; 1972-1984. 0.02 cubic feet.
Two folders of schedules, rosters, rules, and handwritten notes pertaining to recreational hockey in Anchorage.
| Box/Folder | Description | Date |
| 19/41 | Hockey information | 1972-1982 |
| 19/42 | Hockey schedules | 1982, 1984 |