A handful of people told the Haines Borough Assembly that their assessment cards violated local and state law. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
A handful of people told the Haines Borough Assembly on March 26, 2024 that their 2024 assessment cards violated local and state law. (Photo by
Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Changes to the property tax assessment 

Much of the meeting was dominated by public testimony from members pushing the assembly to adopt changes proposed by an ad hoc committee it created in 2023 to look into the borough’s tax assessment process. The borough faced a lot…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...