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Form 4 ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS For: Jul 22 Filed by: Butcher Laurie

July 23, 2021 7:27 PM EDT
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
Butcher Laurie

(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
600 TELEPHONE AVENUE

(Street)
ANCHORAGE AK 99503

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS GROUP INC [ ALSK ]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
Chief Financial Officer
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
07/22/2021
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Common stock, par value $.01 07/22/2021   D (1)   304,055 D (1) 0 D  
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Restricted stock units (2) 07/22/2021   D     43,820   (2)   (2) common stock 43,820 (2) 0 D  
Performance stock units (3) 07/22/2021   D     109,454   (3)   (3) common stock 109,454 (3) 0 D  
Common stock units (4) 07/22/2021   D     0   (4)   (4) common stock 0 (4) 0 D  
Explanation of Responses:
1. On July 22, 2021, the Issuer was acquired by Alaska Management, Inc. ("Parent") pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Agreement"), dated as of December 31, 2020, by and among Issuer, Parent and Project 8 MergerSub, Inc. (the "Merger"). At the effective time of the Merger (the "Effective Time"), each outstanding share of Issuer common stock (subject to limited exceptions) converted into the right to receive $3.40 in cash, without interest (the "Merger Consideration").
2. Pursuant to the Agreement, each Issuer RSU outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time was cancelled in exchange for cash equal to (i) the number of shares of Issuer common stock subject to such RSU multiplied by (ii) $3.40.
3. Pursuant to the APM, each PSU outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time was cancelled in exchange for the contingent right to cash equal to (i) the number of shares of common stock subject to such PSU based on attainment of the performance criteria discussed below multiplied by (ii) $3.40. PSUs subject to vesting based on stock price were certified by the Issuers Compensation Committee as met at $3.25 per share, resulting in 1/3 of PSUs becoming vested and payable and 2/3 of PSUs being forfeited. PSUs subject to vesting based on free cash flow ("FCPSUs"), were certified by such Committee as met at maximum levels (paid out at 150% of target for 2019 and 125% of target for 2020). Payment for FCPSUs remains contingent on time-based vesting conditions to be made at the earliest of (a) the current vesting date, subject to the continued employment through such date, (b) the anniversary of the Effective Time and (c) the date when the employment is terminated without cause.
4. Pursuant to the Agreement, each CSU outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time was cancelled in exchange for cash equal to (i) the number of shares of Issuer common stock subject to such CSU multiplied by (ii) $3.40.
/s/ Tiffany Hoogerhyde for Laurie McKinnon Butcher 07/23/2021
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Leonard Steinberg, Lars Danner, Laurie Butcher, Tiffany Hoogerhyde or Diedre
Williams, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
 
	
        (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's
capacity as an officer and/or director of Alaska Communications Systems Group,
Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; 
	
        (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4,
or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file
such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and 
	
        (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion. 

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 9 day of January, 2020.

/s/ Laurie Butcher
Signature

Laurie Butcher
Print Name


Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9 day of January, 2020, at Anch AK.

                                              
Tiffany L. Smith
Notary Public for the State of Alaska
                                        
My Commission Expires: 11-3-22	
 



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