The assembly voted unanimously to scrap a proposed seasonal sales tax ordinance. The sales tax issue will go back to the finance committee for further discussion. Assembly member Paul Rogers called the ordinance “kind of convoluted” at Tuesday’s regular meeting. “We need more clarity on what we’re really thinking of doing and how we’re going […]
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Four candidates file for assembly
Debra Schnabel, 69, and Tyler Huling, 29, announced their candidacies for borough assembly this week. Brenda Josephson and Richard Clement filed after press time and this online story was updated late Friday. A full story on the all the candidates will appear in next week’s paper. Two seats—Carol Tuynman’s and Jerry Lapp’s—are up for election. […]
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Duly Noted
By Dan Lundberg Nancy DeCherney is one of eight recipients of Alaska State Council on the Arts and Alaska Humanities Forum’s 2016 Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities. DeCherney, executive director of the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, won the award for arts advocacy. The awards ceremony will take place Jan. 28 at the Juneau […]
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Assembly to reconsider seasonal sales tax
The Haines Borough Assembly will likely make changes to the proposed seasonal sales tax ordinance that could go before voters this October, with most saying the current ballot question is too complicated. “I voted against this and the reason I did is because I could not understand it,” assembly member Jerry Lapp said at Tuesday’s finance committee meeting. “And […]
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Assembly to tweak museum code
At the Haines Borough Assembly meeting on Tuesday, the assembly made plans to rehash the proposed museum separation ordinance and introduce a slightly revised version at the next meeting. There was some disagreement among assembly members about how much of the relationship between the borough and the museum should be defined in borough code versus in a […]
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Cell phones (redux)
At the risk of sounding like a nag, I feel compelled, once again, to raise the specter of the dangers Haines faces by not having a working Borough-wide cell phone network. A repeat of last year’s slide disaster, neighborhoods cut off from contact with rescuers, EMT/fire/power/water/road repair services, the anxiety of not knowing the status […]
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Power restored but Beach Road remains closed to public
Last week electricity was restored to the last of the Beach Road houses that had been cut off from power since the December landslide that killed two people and destroyed homes. For eight months, Art and Dawn Woodard have been living at the Covenant Life Center, unable to return to their house near the Battery […]
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Kreitzer, borough reach job agreement
Although a contract has yet to be signed, Mayor Douglas Olerud and assembly member Paul Rogers reached an agreement over employment terms with prospective borough manager Annette Kreitzer. She’ll be paid $130,000 and work one year under probationary status before a 3-year contract is offered. The assembly will also evaluate her job performance after three and nine […]
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Attractants, garbage continue to draw bears
Fish and Game meets with borough leaders Bear attractants remain an issue in Haines, according to a CVN review of more than 140 police reports, and are associated with property damage that’s continuing at nearly the same rate as last summer. Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists came to town this week in response […]
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Assembly Briefs
Assembly cuts Mayor’s salary The assembly voted unanimously to reduce the mayor’s annual salary to $7,000 from $15,000. The cut will not go into effect until after October’s mayoral election. Several members of the public have criticized the reduction. Carol Tuynman said that while she appreciated the effort to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, she […]