The Haines Borough Assembly voted 5-1 to place a proposition on the fall ballot that would reallocate one-half percent of tax proceeds distributed to the tourism and economic development fund to the borough’s areawide general fund.
Currently, a cumulative 5.5 percent sales tax revenue is allocated across five departments: 1 percent to economic development, 1.5 percent to the townsite service area, 1 percent to the areawide general fund, one-half percent to medical services and 1.5…