The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously rejected a $125,000 federal grant at its regular May 8 meeting that would pay nearly half of an additional police officer’s salary for three years.
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded the Community Oriented Policing Services grant in November. Borough manager Debra Schnabel applied for the grant earlier in the year when staff developed a draft ordinance that would have expanded police service borough-wide.
The Alaska State Troopers…