The Haines Borough won’t be eligible to apply this year for millions of federal disaster mitigation dollars that could help compensate Beach Road residents for landslide damage and buy out properties threatened by future slides.
A state specialist and borough staff revealed at an Oct. 13 meeting that Haines can’t apply this cycle for FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant because the program requires an up-to-date hazard mitigation plan, which the borough doesn’t…