Haines Borough Manager Mark Earnest on Tuesday proposed using increased property taxes, a variety of cuts and reserves to fill a $579,000 hole in the municipality’s $11.3 million budget for the coming year.
“This is the starting point. We know there are challenges here. We hope, through this process, to make it work,” Earnest told assembly members at their first workshop of the budget season.
The hole is from expected losses of $377,900 in federal…
