The Haines Police chief is asking for a $37,826 budget increase — about 3.7 percent — for the fiscal year that starts July 1, to help cover the expense of officers on standby. In addition, Chief Heath Scott is asking the borough assembly to appropriate funds to cover a $28,000 overrun in this year’s budget for the same expense.
“It’s fundamentally a mathematical problem,” Scott said at a borough assembly committee of the whole meeting…