At the request of a Bellingham based contractor, the Haines Borough Finance Committee considered expanding the borough’s local bid preference by offering a preference to contractors who are based outside of Haines but keep a staffed office in town.
Current code allows the borough to award a project to a Haines based contractor if that contractor’s bid, after a 7 percent reduction is applied, is less than an outside firm’s bid.
Committe member Tom Morphet…
