A Haines Borough Assembly member and a public safety commission applicant are pushing to seek its board appointments after Mayor Jan Hill stopped scheduling meetings. At last Tuesday’s assembly meeting, Hill said the commission wasn’t working, in part, because the assembly rejected a public safety commission proposal to change its name and membership make-up. “The manager and I, because the […]
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Borough clerk to pass the torch this spring
Julie Cozzi announced her retirement after 15 years as Haines Borough Clerk. Cozzi will leave her post at the end of March for personal reasons. “It’s the right time to pass the baton on to someone who is younger, who has energy and fresh ideas,” Cozzi said. She said she loves her job, but “it’s just the […]
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Assembly considers collecting sales tax from nonprofits
The Haines Borough Assembly may consider levying sales taxes from nonprofits and other municipal sales when next year’s budget process begins. “As our economy continues to be challenging we have to really look at how we’re handling things and this is directly in response to a staggering economy,” said assembly member Brenda Josephson. The assembly’s finance committee […]
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Assembly cuts heliski terrain map
After adding two heli-ski map terrain locations last month, the Haines Borough Assembly reversed part of that decision Tuesday and removed one of the areas. Assembly member Stephanie Scott moved to reconsider a vote made last month that added an area north of Rainbow Glacier and another near Flower Mountain. Every three years the assembly considers changes to heli-ski […]
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Chilkat River capacity subject of public meeting
The Haines Borough Assembly expressed support for a Rainbow Glacier Adventures tour permit application that will increase the company’s passenger limit. Ordonez requested his tour permit be increased from 14 guests per trip to 42 per trip in order to provide rafting opportunities for a small cruise ship company’s guests. Uncruise will dock an 84-passenger ship in […]
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Superintendent applicants up to 11
The Haines Borough School District could have a new superintendent by the end of February. Interim superintendent Rich Carlson said, as of Tuesday’s school board meeting, 11 people applied for the position. He said he expects between 13 and 15 applicants by the close of the application period on Monday, Jan. 15. “The first couple days after Christmas I […]
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Rafting tour permit heads to COW
The Haines Borough Assembly scheduled a committee of the whole meeting to discuss a Rainbow Glacier Adventures request to increase the passenger limit of their rafting tours and rafting’s effect on salmon populations. Tour company owner Joe Ordonez said the cruise ship company Uncruise wants to include rafting trips as part of their stop in Haines. Ordonez […]
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Hard harbor basin remains an issue for contractor
Pacific Pile & Marine retracts second claim The Small Boat Harbor contractor responded this week to PND Engineers’ rebuff of their claim that the harbor dredge basin was harder than described in the project’s bid documents. Pacific Pile & Marine first notified the borough in July of differing site conditions in the harbor basin after […]
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2017 sees shifting leadership, new beginnings
A shakeup in leadership across government and business, a group of unsatisfied citizens who challenged the assembly and how to approach policing outside the townsite dominated the news this year. The first ripples of discontent occurred after the assembly rejected Diana Lapham’s application to sit on the Ports and Harbor Advisory committee. Don Turner and […]
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Talks linger on resource extraction
The Haines Borough Planning Commission can’t come to a consensus on how resource extraction should be defined in code, pushing discussions to at least February after months of debate. “It’s in the borough’s interest to have these definitions and the code to be as airtight as possible,” said commission chair Rob Goldberg. At a Dec. 14 meeting, […]