The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday reversed an earlier vote and approved adding a 33-foot-long segment of steel breakwater barrier that fishermen and harbor officials called a critical piece of the Portage Cove Harbor Expansion project.
But assembly members also made a concession to concerns the project deserved equal funding to ensure the aesthetics of the final product.
The assembly voted to approve $420,407 to add another 33 feet to the project’s planned addition of 600…

