The Haines Borough Assembly members may eliminate or reduce spending on a Washington, D.C. lobbyist in the coming year.

For at least the past four years, the assembly has paid Brad Gilman of Robertson, Monagle and Eastaugh’s Washington office $50,000 per year for representing the borough and advocating federal legislation benefiting the municipality.

But with federal spending ratcheted down and much of the town’s capital spending coming from the Alaska Legislature, the money is not…