The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously rejected Wednesday morning a proposal by architects and public facilities director Ed Coffland to pursue designs of a new 26,000 square foot public safety building south of the existing facility, characterizing the plans as too extravagant.

Principal of Bettisworth North, Roy Rountree, presented a range of options to the assembly during a committee of the whole meeting, including the largest 35,000 square foot “all-inclusive package” that included an indoor shooting…