A day before a charter-mandated deadline, the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday adopted its $12.3 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year on a 5-1 vote.
Assembly member George Campbell cast the sole vote against the spending plan.
Campbell, who in previous budget hearings tried unsuccessfully to make several changes to the document, appeared to have given up on his efforts to rein in spending.
Campbell said he wasn’t “going to waste time trying to…