Borough clerk Mike Denker speaks during the April 22, 2025 assembly meeting. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News)

Community Purpose (Property Tax) Exemptions

It’s been a contentious start to budget season already, with back and forth debate on non-profit funding spread across many of the last few assembly meetings. That debate was, at least in part, renewed Tuesday night, this time on the issue of Community Purpose Tax Exemptions.

That property tax exemption, according to borough code,…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.