Despite appeals from audience members and the Haines Assisted Living community manager, Haines Borough Assembly members declined to reconsider votes made last week to postpone consideration of a property tax exemption for the Soboleff-McRae Veterans Village.

About a half-dozen residents turned out at Tuesday’s meeting to ask assembly members to reconsider their vote to postpone an ordinance which, if passed, would have granted a “community purpose exemption” for the residential floor of the Veterans Village, relieving…