Haines Borough Assembly members Tuesday unanimously approved the government’s $11.3 million spending plan for the coming year.
They raised the areawide property tax rate about one quarter mill, to 7.63 mills, and lowered by about a half mill the tax rate in the townsite, to 10.79 mills.
To balance the budget, they also withdrew $180,000 from fund balance reserves of more than $4 million.
Member Jerry Lapp sought the areawide property tax rate, which is…