Haines Borough Assembly members have mixed feelings on the performance of the headhunting firm they hired to find the municipality’s next manager and police chief, but none feel requesting a discount or refund of the firm’s fee is warranted.

Brimeyer Fursman is charging $27,500, plus expenses not to exceed $10,000, for the two searches. Some members of the public, upset with the firm’s failure to conduct background checks on 10 manager semi-finalists it forwarded to…