It's perhaps legal, but ethical or smart? The US has a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that controls this same action by corporations toward foreign government officials. It is recognized that these kinds of actions create quid pro quos and sometimes become outright bribery of officials. Full public disclosure is a good thing in this situation. As a citizen of the state though I don't support this kind of policy. Next you have state gas line staff doing the same kind of things because leadership provided the example, and we are left with a compromised negotiating basis for a mega - project with billions of dollars of contracts at stake. These are just some of the risks we will expose ourselves to using a non-business savvy, non-experience "hardened" team in Juneau  leading the project. Without clear policy on such matters (which we don't have since our state is not an international company with decades of related business experience) we should expect more of this going forward.