The Haines Borough Assembly voted during a special meeting Tuesday to offer its manager job to candidate David Sosa, a 20-year U.S. Marine Corps officer. He holds a master’s degree in public administration but has never worked for a municipality. After a 30-minute closed-door session, the assembly voted unanimously to extend the job offer to Sosa and […]
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In 2013, projects belied forecast
For the first time since the rebuilt Haines School was oriented toward Old Haines Highway in 2007, students could make it to the school along a sidewalk. The $975,000 project was one of several changing the face of downtown in the past year. Work also started on the $6 million Soboleff-McRae Veterans Village and the […]
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Assembly leans toward Sosa hire
The Haines Borough Assembly isn’t ready to offer the job to manager candidate David Sosa just yet. After coming out of executive session Tuesday, the assembly voted unanimously to call additional references provided by Sosa and ask him to provide a “community interface scenario” he has encountered outside of the military. Sosa has worked as a U.S. […]
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Assembly mulls last candidates standing
With one manager candidate clearly eliminated and one withdrawn from the race, the Haines Borough Assembly will decide Tuesday how it wants to proceed with the two remaining candidates. In a Nov. 4 committee-of-the-whole meeting, most assembly members agreed they would like to invite David Sosa to visit Haines for an in-person interview. The group will vote […]
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Assembly: No early favorites for manager job
Three members of the Haines Borough Assembly who met Tuesday to interview the top four borough manager candidates via Skype afterward expressed ambivalence about their options. After two hours of interviews interspersed with discussion among assembly members, member Joanne Waterman said none of the four stood out as far and away the person she would want to manage the Haines […]
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Borough’s report upholds election
Mistakes were made during the Oct. 1 municipal election, but they were not egregious enough to warrant overturning the results and ordering a new election, according to a report written by Haines Borough staff and accepted by the assembly Tuesday. The assembly voted 5-0 to certify the election. Member Norm Smith was absent. school board candidate Ardy Miller, who challenged […]
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Assembly lukewarm on manager finalists
The Haines Borough Assembly has whittled down a list of applicants for the manager position from 20 to four and will publicly conduct telephone interviews with finalists Oct. 29. While assembly members saw positive characteristics in each of the four finalists – Susan Jensen of Anchorage, Carlo Pilgrim of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Jim Pascale of Hopewell, […]
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Schnabel not applying for manager
Haines Borough Assembly member Debra Schnabel will not vie for the borough’s top job. Schnabel had previously voiced her intention to apply for borough manager, but in a Sept. 30 email to the administration and other assembly members said she decided against it. In an interview Friday, Schnabel said several factors influenced her decision, including a lack […]
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Setbacks idea hits resistance
The Haines Borough Planning Commission is trying to put setback limits on development in general use zones, but some assembly members are skeptical about the ramifications of such a change. The commission is proposing any industrial development on general use land require a 50-foot setback from residential lots. The ordinance, if passed, would also require residences in […]
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Yurts, wall tents, RVs get assembly’s OK
People staying in yurts and wall tents can live there as long as they want, even though the Haines Borough Planning Commission would have it otherwise. The Haines Borough Assembly Aug. 27 struck down the planning commission’s recommendation to add yurts, recreational vehicles and wall tents to the borough code’s definition of “temporary use dwellings,” a change that would […]