Concerns about meeting the cost – including future maintenance – of a harbor expansion surfaced at the March 12 Haines Borough Assembly meeting, where members George Campbell and Debra Schnabel opposed $1.7 million for engineering services related to construction of a 700-foot, metal wave barrier.

The expenditure to PND Engineers, Inc. went ahead on a 4-2 vote.

Also at the meeting, the assembly passed a motion “to request very strongly of staff” to come up…