Members of the Haines Borough Assembly are set to approve a bid for demolishing the remaining portion of the old elementary school at their meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Bids are due Monday, and the assembly is expected to vote on accepting the low bid Tuesday, said borough manager Mark Earnest. The assembly in July moved to […]
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Recall targets chose to ignore the law
What twisted webs they weave. Seems once some of our borough assembly members break the law rather than correct the mistake they compound it. On June 13, 2011 a special meeting was called to appoint someone in vacant seat “E.” This is called for by borough code and state law (Title 29). Both say, “Shall […]
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Recall is embarrassment to community
I urge all voters to carefully read the Oct. 4 election notice. It shows both the grounds for, and the responses to, the recall propositions. It seems clear that both assembly members Joanne Waterman and Daymond Hoffman were following what they believed to be correct procedure in the face of a very charged situation. Two of the other three assembly members voted […]
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School study went idle as demolition loomed
also by Tom Morphet Progress on a “programming study” to determine who and what might go into a renovated elementary school apparently slowed to a stop after Haines Borough facilities director Brad Maynard resigned in June. The borough assembly voted July 26 to pursue demolition of the old school building, weeks before a memo that included some […]
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Vote ‘no’ on borough assembly recall
First: Better luck next time on the 1 percent. Right now the recall is more important. Representatives Daymond Hoffman, Joanne Waterman and Jerry Lapp all voted for a special election, but recall organizers aren’t telling us to unseat Lapp. Obviously the recall is really meant as a punishment for those who wouldn’t give Greg Goodman’s seat to Karen Hess. So let’s […]
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Assembly sends recall effort to ballot
Haines Borough Assembly members Daymond Hoffman and Joanne Waterman on Tuesday joined in unanimous votes to put their own recall elections on the ballot for the October municipal election. Resolutions for each recall vote initially were included on the consent agenda for Tuesday’s assembly meeting, which would have given the go-ahead to the recall votes without involving a separate vote […]
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Borough to halt rec center study, pursue planning
The Haines Borough will halt a $14,442 study aimed at determining the need for a recreation center in Haines. Instead, the borough assembly will seek “requests for qualifications” from interested parties to help with planning. Tuesday’s assembly decision followed local confusion about the status of a “programming” study by MRV Architects of Juneau that examined the former […]
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Recall petitions OK’d
Recall votes for Haines Borough Assembly members Daymond Hoffman and Joanne Waterman will be on the ballot for the October municipal election. Borough clerk Julie Cozzi on Tuesday certified the Hoffman and Waterman recall petitions as “sufficient,” after the Haines Recall Committee on Aug. 12 submitted each with more than the required 275 signatures. Cozzi said this week that seats of […]
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Voters won’t get tourism tax issue; Rossman, Lapp, Waterman vote keeps question off October ballot
The Haines Borough Assembly on Tuesday shot down a proposed ordinance to put the borough’s municipal sales tax designated for tourism promotion and economic development on the October ballot, surprising residents who put a citizens’ ballot initiative on hold this spring and were absent from the meeting. The ordinance failed to advance to a second public hearing, […]
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Recall petitions expected Friday; Organizers say they’ll have enough signatures for vote
Jim Shook, chairman of the Haines Recall Committee, said petitions for the potential recall of Haines Borough Assembly members Daymond Hoffman and Joanne Waterman will be turned in by Friday, Aug. 12, the deadline to be on the ballot for the October municipal election. Each petition needs at least 275 certified signatures. “We want to get as many as possible, because […]