A land lottery could be the salvation of the Haines public safety building.
The facility is nearing the end of its life, but at present, the borough lacks the funds to replace it. At a meeting on Wednesday, May 20, public facilities director Ed Coffland said he had come up with a creative way to raise the money—a nationwide land lottery.
Under Coffland’s lottery scheme, the borough would select 10 lots from the roughly 1,400…
