The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 to advance a charter amendment that would again put the question of boroughwide policing on the October ballot. The ordinance would amend the charter to make it legal for police to respond to calls for help from Lutak, Mud Bay, and the Haines Highway- a job they’ve already been doing in cases […]
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Borough to pay $450,336 for school debt reimbursement
The borough is set to pay $450,336 for school debt this year, bond payments which had largely been covered by the state since 2005. On Monday, the Alaska House Finance Committee passed a bill reversing $92 million of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s $444 million in vetoes, but failed to reverse the governor’s veto of $48.9 million […]
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Borough cancels woodchipper RFP
The Haines Borough is no longer in the market for a wood chipper. The borough is relinquishing nearly $100,000 in grant money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, after the agency informed the borough that a wood chipper bought with the funds could not be used for any commercial activities other than making fuel for a municipal […]
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Hamilton awarded $4.7 million bid
The Haines Borough Assembly unanimously voted to award the $4.7 million Portage Cover boat launch project to Skagway-based company Hamilton Construction in a special meeting. The project includes a two-lane boat launch ramp, parking lot and harbor park. At a July 23 meeting, the borough assembly voted to postpone three of the smaller projects included in the […]
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Commission recommends Turner
On Thursday, the planning commission recommended that the borough assembly appoint Don Turner II to fill the seat previously held by his son, Don Turner III. For three months the planning commission received no applications to fill the seat the younger Turner vacated in April. “No one else had applied for it, and I am […]
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Quarterly sales tax collections down Sales tax collections submitted to the Haines Borough for the first quarter of 2019 are down 3.6 percent, or $17,000, from the same quarter last year. Borough manager Debra Schnabel said the reasons for the dip are a poor heliskiing season, costing the borough about $8,000, and the borough assembly’s decision to no longer […]
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Hearing set for solid waste proposal The Haines Borough Assembly introduced a taxpayer-funded solid waste management program ordinance along with a ballot measure that would increase borough sales tax by 1 percent to pay for the operation, maintenance and enforcement of the program that is estimated to cost between $350,000 to $450,000. The revenue would, in part, […]
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Borough will release RFP for wood chipper
The Haines Borough Assembly has taken a step towards purchasing a wood chipper, its next move in a multi-year borough discussion about converting of public buildings from burning diesel to biomass for heating. The assembly voted unanimously June 27 to issue a request for proposals (RFP) for a wood chipper, which would be used to produce fuel […]
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Site development permits excluded from general use
The Haines Borough Assembly passed an ordinance on Tuesday that requires land use permits for site development in the townsite, Mud Bay, and Lutak zones, exempting the majority of the land in the borough, which falls in the general use zone. The ordinance exempted the general use zone after residents petitioned the past two weeks against the permitting system […]
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Assembly approves budget, slight hike to property taxes
The Haines Borough Assembly set its 2020 operating budget on Tuesday, adopting a significantly lower property tax mill rate than the manager’s proposed budget based on a gamble the state will fully fund debt services owed to the borough. The school debt reimbursement program that provides the borough about $1 million a year to pay back school […]