The Haines Borough Assembly last week rejected purchase of a $12,500 dump trailer for the Small Boat Harbor, despite appropriating funding for the purchase a month earlier. Assembly members George Campbell and Dave Berry voted against buying the trailer. Members Joanne Waterman, Debra Schnabel and Diana Lapham voted in favor. Assembly member Jerry Lapp was absent. The resolution failed on a 3-2 […]
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Budget hearings set
Residents interested in how the Haines Borough spends its money can attend upcoming budget meetings, including an introductory presentation by chief fiscal officer Jila Stuart at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Stuart’s presentation will review major changes to this year’s budget and trends, and what interim manager Julie Cozzi hopes to accomplish with the budget. There will be no […]
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Train line price tag in billions
A group of Haines and Whitehorse residents are confident building a railroad from Carmacks, Y.T., to Haines is possible – so much so that they recently created a company and registered for a business license to do just that. Haines residents Dave Berry, Bill Kurz and Dave Nanney along with Whitehorse city councilman Kirk […]
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Assembly looks to up investment in stocks
Should the Haines Borough invest more of its $8 million permanent fund in the stock market? The borough assembly’s finance committee agreed March 10 that a provision in code that caps the fund’s investment in stocks at 25 percent should be raised to 50 percent of total assets, with a target of 30 percent in stocks. Currently, […]
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Breakwater, dredging costs raise questions
Concerns about meeting the cost – including future maintenance – of a harbor expansion surfaced at the March 12 Haines Borough Assembly meeting, where members George Campbell and Debra Schnabel opposed $1.7 million for engineering services related to construction of a 700-foot, metal wave barrier. The expenditure to PND Engineers, Inc. went ahead on a 4-2 vote. Also at […]
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Assembly upholds heli-ski decision
The Haines Borough Assembly Tuesday upheld its original decision to keep the 2,200-acre zone near Four Winds Mountain closed to heli-skiing after assembly member Dave Berry called for reconsideration of the issue. Two heli-skiing operators had asked the Four Winds Mountain zone and four other areas be opened for a month-long special event, but the assembly rejected […]
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Survey: Landfill important to residents
Preliminary results of a survey intended to gauge community behaviors and attitudes toward garbage, recycling and composting seem to indicate many Haines residents don’t believe there is a solid waste problem in need of solving. Haines Borough Assembly member Debra Schnabel, who is conducting the survey, discussed preliminary results at a commerce committee meeting Monday. Schnabel, who […]
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Assembly OKs 26 Mile heliport
A Haines Borough Assembly meeting that lasted nearly nine hours this week after it was continued to a second night resulted in a split decision for the heli-skiing industry. On a 4-3 vote Tuesday tipped by Mayor Stephanie Scott breaking a tie, the assembly rejected a special event allowance for two heli-ski firms that sought to open nearly 10,000 acres […]
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A crosswalk on Third Avenue?
The Third Avenue improvements project is fully designed and ready to go to bid, but questions linger about the design’s safety and the Haines Borough Planning Commission’s lack of input. The project, which has been in the works for four years, will improve the surface of the road and road base and add sidewalks, rolled curbs, a […]
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Summit: Tourism, real estate sectors rebounding
Presenters at the Haines Chamber of Commerce “Economic Summit” Saturday reported a “considerable rebound” in the local real estate market and said numbers of cruise passengers should increase by 50 percent in 2015. About 100 residents and panelists turned out for the five-hour forum, which included business operators, officials of the Haines Borough and local non-profits, and […]