It’s budget season for the Haines borough, kicked off by an assembly discussion Thursday night to go line-by-line through its areawide general fund. 

The budget determines taxation – who gets taxed and by how much – and spending, on services like education, the pool, public safety and economic development. Balancing this year’s budget has been made particularly complicated by the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property tax revenue and federal funding. 

Those

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