Jim Boersema, communications director for Gov. Neil Abercrombie, will step down at the
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end of the month to return to private sector work.
Boersema took the job last year when the Abercrombie administration had been roiled by the resignations of several high-level aides to the governor.
“I said I would take the job for a year and see what I could do to help turn things around,” Boersema said.
“It’s been a year now, things have settled, and I have plenty of other things to do,” he said.
Boersema is board chairman and secretary of Unity House, Inc., a $20-million non-profit that provides benefits and stages events for members of the Teamsters and Hotel-Restaurant workers unions here.
Unity House has been in federal bankruptcy reorganization proceedings for more than a year but is due to be discharged soon, said Boersema.