The Haines Borough is considering exponential rate increases for using Lutak Dock, under a proposed ordinance set for a second public hearing Tuesday. “These rates, in general, haven’t been changed in many years,” said borough manager Mark Earnest. “They’ve just been low, and they’ve been low for a long time.” The Haines Borough Assembly on Feb. 22 advanced the ordinance to a […]
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Minutes for committee meetings?
Should records be kept of meetings of Haines Borough Assembly subcommittees, borough boards and other advisory groups to the local government? Bill Kurz, who makes videos of local government meetings for broadcast on local cable TV, thinks so. Kurz said too much can get lost in translation if accurate records aren’t kept. He points to a meeting […]
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Haines, Skagway meeting Monday
The Haines Borough and Municipality of Skagway assemblies are set to meet Monday at a joint work session in Skagway. Haines Borough Assembly members will take a ferry to and from the 7 p.m. session in the Skagway assembly chambers, 700 Spring St. Items on the agenda include upper Lynn Canal port development, tourism and energy. Borough manager Mark Earnest said the […]
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Borough will rejoin revolving loan effort
The Haines Borough Assembly last week voted to authorize continued participation in a regional revolving loan program operated by the Juneau Economic Development Council. Haines’ participation in the fund started in 1998, tapping into some of $2.2 million in economic disaster funds provided to the borough by former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, in the wake of lost […]
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Public squeezed out at assembly meeting; Chambers doesn’t hold half turnout
The Haines Borough Assembly needs a new home or improvements to its current chambers, leaders said after Tuesday’s meeting, where more than 40 people forced into the hallway by overcrowding outnumbered the 38 audience members inside. It was the third time in as many months that citizens attending an assembly meeting were left standing in the hallway […]
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Denker, HAL to discuss settlement on variance
Calling for new permitting requirements to stem “after-the-fact” variance requests, Haines Borough Assembly members Tuesday hammered out a possible resolution to a dispute between Haines Assisted Living and neighboring landowner Mike Denker. On a motion by member Joanne Waterman, the assembly confirmed a contested variance granted to HAL on the condition that Denker get “reasonable and usable access […]
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Assembly advances 2,600 skier days
Following more than an hour of comments at a Haines Borough Assembly public hearing Tuesday, members advanced a revised helicopter skiing ordinance that would permit up to three operators to share a 2,600 skier-day limit. The ordinance will have at least one more public hearing, its fifth, set for Tuesday, March 8. The assembly advanced the amended […]
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Borough buys ‘lawn tractor’ for $18K
The Haines Borough Assembly on Feb. 8 authorized the purchase of a lawn tractor from Bigfoot Auto Service for a cost not to exceed $17,985. It replaces a riding lawn mower. The borough also received a bid of $18,545 from Craig Taylor Equipment of Anchorage. “How big is this thing?” asked assembly member Scott Rossman. “I didn’t […]
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Assembly OKs land sale talks
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 Tuesday to authorize manager Mark Earnest to negotiate with an upper valley church that wants to buy a two-acre parcel of borough land at the intersection of Haines Highway and Mosquito Lake Road. Members Joanne Waterman and Greg Goodman were opposed. The church’s lot would come from a five-acre piece the borough purchased there last […]
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HAL variance to be reheard
The Haines Borough Assembly voted 6-0 Tuesday to rehear a contested variance approved by the planning commission for a Haines Assisted Living building expansion. Resident Mike Denker, whose house abuts the HAL building, appealed a second variance the project received that puts the HAL extension within a few feet of his home. Denker told the assembly the […]