The Haines Borough spent about $70,000 on legal services in the past year, including $11,500 on the 2013 election investigation and $7,000 on the appeal of a conditional use permit recently issued by the borough for construction of a heliport near 26 Mile Haines Highway.
Borough attorney Brooks Chandler presented a breakdown of the fiscal year 2014 costs to the assembly last week. About $40,000 of the $70,000 of the services were for “general counsel,”…