The Haines Borough Assembly needs a new home or improvements to its current chambers, leaders said after Tuesday’s meeting, where more than 40 people forced into the hallway by overcrowding outnumbered the 38 audience members inside.
It was the third time in as many months that citizens attending an assembly meeting were left standing in the hallway outside. After crowded meetings last fall, police chief Gary Lowe has been enforcing a fire marshal’s restriction of…