By Krista Kielsmeier
Haines Borough code mandates the municipality have a department of economic development and a director to lead it.
“Despite this code requirement, to my knowledge the department has never been established,” Mayor Stephanie Scott wrote in a memo last month, requesting that section of code be repealed.
The Haines Borough Assembly this week advanced to a second public hearing an ordinance removing the code language that mandates a department of economic…