Some residents opposed $2 million in state funding for Klukwan’s purchase of the Chilkat Cruises dock and vessel and $277,000 for renovation of the fair’s Harriett Hall as a convention center, staff to Gov. Sean Parnell’s budget director said this week.
State Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Haines, submitted the two requests to be funded from cruise ship head tax regional impact money. The requests were approved by the Alaska Legislature but vetoed last week by…