A standoff continues between the Haines Borough Assembly and the Planning Commission regarding a controversial sign law. The commission voted last week to re-send the same ordinance it sent the assembly in 2011, though the assembly rejected it four years ago. The ordinance would require business owners to obtain a conditional use permit for off-premises signs. Commission […]
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Assembly delegates harbor analysis to Ports and Harbors panel
After the Haines Borough Assembly last week charged the Finance Committee with conducting an economic analysis of the Small Boat Harbor expansion project, the committee this week passed the task to the Port and Harbor Advisory Committee. Community and economic development director Bill Mandeville, working with harbormaster Shawn Bell, put together a rough operating budget for the […]
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Assembly wants alternatives to cutting HARK
Dog lovers, don’t despair yet. The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday passed a motion directing borough staff to investigate different ways the municipality could fund the Haines Animal Rescue Kennel at the $45,000 level. Current cuts proposed by manager David Sosa would slash HARK’s contract from $47,800 to $16,200. Sosa’s plan would cut the contract and move dog-catching […]
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Want to speak to Assembly? Sign-up required
Members of the public wishing to testify during a public hearing at a Haines Borough Assembly meeting will now have to sign up ahead of time. Mayor Jan Hill recently renewed the practice, which requires members of the public seeking to testify at a public hearing to use a sign-in sheet placed on a table outside the assembly chambers. […]
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Junk car program yet to hit the streets
More than a year-and-a-half after the Haines Borough Assembly adopted an ordinance establishing a $22 biennial motor vehicle registration tax, the borough has impounded one vehicle and collected $2,439 in revenue. The borough impounded a wrecked pickup at Picture Point in late 2013 after public pressure and criticism that it was obstructing the landscape, but otherwise hasn’t […]
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Harbor petition denied, but analysis planned
The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday told concerned residents it would not slow plans for expansion of the Small Boat Harbor, but agreed to discuss an economic analysis of the project at a Finance Committee meeting next week. Tresham Gregg submitted an informal petition to the assembly with 100 signatures asking the borough to suspend engineering work […]
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Petition seeks to halt harbor design work
A petition circulating around town this week asked the Haines Borough to suspend design work on the harbor expansion project to allow for more public review and “an economic analysis of the project as currently described.” Tresham Gregg, an artist and lifelong resident, was circulating the petition. “The borough says it’s already too late, but that’s not […]
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Proposal to eliminate comment period dies
An ordinance that would have cut the second public comment period at Haines Borough Assembly meetings has died. Assembly member Mike Case proposed the ordinance with Mayor Jan Hill’s endorsement. Before it could be introduced on April 14 at the assembly level, it was pulled from the agenda and sent to the Government Affairs and Services Committee due to […]
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Borough budget hearings set for May 12, May 26
The Haines Borough Assembly introduced the upcoming year’s budget Tuesday to little fanfare. The budget ordinance will have its first public hearing May 12, its second on May 26, and a potential third hearing June 9. These hearings are the public’s opportunity to comment on the document that will determine borough spending in the upcoming year. Haines […]
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Assembly rejects last-minute bid to slow harbor project
An attempt by a Haines Borough Assembly member to hit “pause” on the Small Boat Harbor expansion project until several financial questions are answered was shot down by the assembly last week. Member Ron Jackson tried to have the assembly reconsider its March 24 vote against extending the public comment period on the 65 percent design of […]