The Haines Borough Assembly took $65,000 originally earmarked for the area’s nonprofit organizations out of limbo, and approved the appropriations Tuesday.
That reverses a 4-3 decision on Aug. 23 to table that appropriation decision for at least three months. Concerns about the borough’s $450,000 deficit prompted the decision to table the appropriations.
“Taxpayers I’ve talked to … they’re genuinely concerned about the borough donating to nonprofits when they don’t have any say where it goes,”…
