The Haines Borough is revising plans for a CARES Act-funded morgue again. The change means roughly $22,000 in CARES Act funds will go to waste.

The original morgue plan, approved in June, involved using $200,000 to build a permanent structure next to the current public safety building. Last month, responding to public feedback and more pressing facility needs, the assembly scaled back the project, choosing, instead, to use $100,000 to turn a refrigerated shipping container…