The Haines Borough officials are discussing a fee system for commercial users to maintain Porcupine Road and other roads in the area that lie within the Historic Dalton Trail Road Maintenance Service Area. On Tuesday, the borough’s government affairs and services committee drafted a fee schedule imposing fees on commercial operators who use the roads such as […]
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Road damage reduces access to shooting range in wake of flood
Access to the Haines Sportsman’s Association shooting range has been limited since the private road leading to the facility washed out during the December storms that caused massive flooding and landslides. “None of the structures were damaged in the storm, but the road is impassable,” sportsman’s treasurer Cheryl Stickler said. Accessing the range now requires […]
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Mosquito Lake Community Center agreement extended through end of June The Haines Borough Assembly extended the borough’s current memorandum of understanding with Friends of Mosquito Lake School and Community Center for another six months, through the end of the current fiscal year. In 2014, the Mosquito Lake School closed due to falling enrollment. In 2016, the borough […]
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Assembly approves dumpster loan, advances bear-attractant code revisions
On Tuesday, the Haines Borough Assembly unanimously approved a $16,000 loan to Community Waste Solutions (CWS) for 10 additional bear-proof dumpsters as a first step in addressing the community’s bear problem. At the same meeting, the assembly also introduced an ordinance that would require residents to secure garbage in a certified, bear-proof container, an enclosed structure or […]
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Damage from December storms results in $1.5 million decline in property value
Assessed property value in the borough decreased, at least temporarily, by more than $1.5 million in the wake of the early December storms, according to a recent Haines Borough report. The long-term market value could also be impacted, particularly in neighborhoods identified by geologists as areas of concern, although it’s too soon to say for sure, according […]
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Assembly enacts hiring freeze The Haines Sheldon Museum’s two advertised jobs positions will not be filled until the 2020 budget is finalized, an outcome of a hiring freeze enacted by the Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday. “I’m here to tell you tonight that the board of directors at the Haines Sheldon Museum has implemented a hiring freeze […]
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Assembly approves access to Beach Road
Residents retrieve stranded cars, possessions Beach Road residents were able to extract cars and possessions from homes beginning Monday at noon after completion of a temporary “pioneer” road through the debris field left by the Dec. 2 landslide. As soon as Southeast Road Builders area manager Roger Schnabel and his 75,000-pound excavator finished the access […]
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Remote sellers tax yields $125K in first three quarters of 2020
The Haines Borough‘s loss of pandemic related sales tax revenues this summer has been offset by the near doubling of taxes collected from online retailers such as Amazon, REI, Target and other remote sellers. Sales tax revenues are down 30% between January through October 2020 compared to 2019, a loss of about $923,000. The remote sellers […]
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Small landslide indicates instability in Beach Road area, EOC says
A small landslide occurred on the southeast flank of the Dec. 2 Beach Road slide path between Monday and Tuesday, according to a Jan. 19 Haines Borough press release. The movement occurred after Haines received roughly 2 inches of rain in a 12-hour period. “The estimated size of the new slide area was about twenty feet wide […]
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Assembly makes plan to address Haines’ bear problem
The Haines Borough Assembly’s Commerce Committee began chipping away at a plan to address the borough’s bear problem at a meeting Tuesday. The committee forwarded two recommendations to the full assembly for consideration—a proposal to loan Community Waste Solutions (CWS) $16,000 to buy 10 additional bear-proof dumpsters and a proposal to revise borough code to clarify what […]