Households with a total income of $70,000 or less may soon be eligible for $500 grants per person. The Haines Borough Assembly’s CARES Act ad hoc committee and Commerce Committee began work on the grant program for individuals during a joint meeting on Tuesday to discuss distribution of roughly $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief.

Other recommendations made by the Commerce Committee and CARES Act ad hoc committee at Tuesday’s meeting include: doubling grant amounts,…