Although required to by code, Haines Borough Manager Mark Earnest has not provided for evaluations of employees since starting on the job three years ago. As manager, Earnest serves as the borough’s personnel director. He is responsible for supervising and evaluating about a dozen of the municipality’s upper-level employees, including department heads and three borough “officers”: police chief Gary Lowe, […]
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Downtown revival effort to regroup
An upcoming meeting of the Downtown Revitalization Committee may help determine the direction of the group, which hasn’t met since June. Lenise Henderson Fontenot, who serves as volunteer chair of the informal organization, said that in the coming weeks she’ll call a committee meeting to be attended by Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott and manager Mark Earnest. A date is […]
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Legislature loosens water regs
Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott lamented recent action by the Alaska Legislature to loosen restrictions on cruise ship dumping in state waters. “I lobbied and lobbied and lobbied and lobbied. I’m just sick about it,” Scott said last week after the state Senate voted 15-5 for the bill that would roll back wastewater treatment requirements of the 2006 […]
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Borough: Tweak sockeye study
The Haines Borough is taking a closer look before signing off on a $10,000 study of local commercial fish stocks and management. The draft report, “Data Review of the Sockeye Salmon Declines in Chilkat and Chilkoot Lakes,” was submitted by Golder Associates in August. About 10 fishermen and residents attended a committee meeting about the 40-page report […]
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Planners reject CIA fine appeal
The Haines Borough Planning Commission denied on Feb. 14 the Chilkoot Indian Association’s appeal of $1,000 in fines for unpermitted residential construction in the Chilkoot Estates Subdivision. The commission voted 5-2 in favor of upholding the after-the-fact fines imposed by planning and zoning technician Xi “Tracy” Cui on Jan. 10. Commissioners Andy Hedden, Danny Gonce, Robert Miller, […]
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Meetings scheduled
Lack of a quorum cancelled Tuesday’s scheduled meeting of the Haines Borough Assembly. Members Norm Smith, Joanne Waterman and Jerry Lapp were absent. Tuesday’s meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 5. A regular meeting also is scheduled for March 12. A meeting that would have been held Feb. 12 was canceled and rescheduled in advance, due to anticipated absences.
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Wellgreen: Ore facility needed
A transportation study by Prophecy Platinum completed in December points to Skagway as the shipping port for ore from the Wellgreen deposit at Burwash Landing, Y.T., project manager Neil Froc said this week. Haines Borough officials last fall identified Wellgreen as a potential customer of a port facility here. The absence of an ore terminal in […]
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Breakwater draft study: Sea floor soft
Extending the rubble mound breakwater is likely not an option for the South Portage Cove harbor expansion project, according to the preliminary results of a recently conducted geotechnical survey. Installation of a metal wave barrier will probably be pursued instead, Haines Borough officials said this week. Based on a draft report released by PND Engineers, soft clay […]
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Lunchtime meeting on Dungeness on Friday
A marine fisheries supervisor for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will attend Friday’s Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee meeting to address concerns about overharvesting of Dungeness crab in the area. The meeting starts 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22 in the asembly chambers. Forrest Bowers, who made a presentation to the Haines Borough in October, will […]
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Assembly still grappling with nonprofit funding
How the Haines Borough should distribute money to local nonprofits has been discussed for years, and the issue continues to vex the assembly. Mayor Stephanie Scott proposed at a borough assembly meeting last month to establish an ad hoc committee to deal with the issue of doling out money to nonprofits, but the resolution failed after assembly members Norm Smith, Jerry […]