Assembly rejects taxes, leans toward cuts to close expected budget gap

Funding priorities in the upcoming budget cycle for the Haines Borough Assembly include education and public safety.

For everything else, funding levels are negotiable, assembly member Paul Rogers said.

An assembly meeting last week with borough department heads and Nils Andreassen, executive director for the Alaska Municipal League (AML), focused on ways the borough can accommodate state funding reductions in its budget.

Andreassen briefed the borough on current state legislative issues that impact municipalities. He…