Tennessee real estate investor George Zoukee may have set a new record for shortest Haines Borough manager tenure when he turned down the assembly’s job offer on Monday. “The logistics of the move were a lot harder than I thought with borders being closed and the pandemic. It made it a tough time to make that move,” […]
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Assembly to consider supporting improved Juneau access
The Haines Borough Assembly plans to take up a resolution in support of a ferry terminal at Cascade Point, 30 miles north of Juneau’s Auke Bay terminal, at its next regular meeting April 13. “As we’ve seen with our winter ferry service the last couple of years, there’s a lot of drawbacks to the current ferry system,” Mayor Douglas […]
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Assembly offers manager job to Zoukee
The Haines Borough Assembly voted this week 5-1 to offer George Zoukee the borough manager job. Zoukee and interim manager and borough clerk Alekka Fullerton were finalists for the job. A third candidate dropped out of the running this week. Mayor Douglas Olerud said the assembly offered Zoukee the position Tuesday and contract discussions began Wednesday. Zoukee spent […]
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Borough offers Alten grievance settlement
Haines Borough Mayor Douglas Olerud has sent a settlement offer to Public Employees Local 71, the borough’s employees union, in an effort to resolve a grievance filed last July on behalf of former museum director Helen Alten. The museum board eliminated her position on June 30. Those involved in the settlement talks including Alten, union business representative […]
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Matanuska breaks down for second time in 2021
The Matanuska ferry, the only Alaska Marine Highway vessel currently serving Haines, is once again experiencing mechanical difficulties, prompting the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT) to cancel sailings for the third time in just over a year. “I was on vacation for a month in Florida. I was very careful to line […]
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Misclassification threatens to deprive community of relief funds
The Haines Borough is slated to receive at least $490,000 through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the new pandemic economic recovery bill signed into law on March 11, but officials said it’s too soon to predict how funds will be spent because it’s still uncertain how much the borough will receive. “We are continuing to […]
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Borough reaches out to CIA to purchase museum building
One avenue the Haines Borough is exploring, as the Haines Sheldon Museum board of trustees works to restructure as a separate nonprofit, is the possibility of selling the museum building to the Chilkoot Indian Association (CIA). “It’s been on the back burner until we got the PERS termination study results. Now that we have those numbers, we’re […]
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Three manager candidates advance to second-round interviews
All three remaining Haines Borough manager candidates have advanced to the next interview round. On Tuesday, the Haines Borough Assembly held half-hour interviews with borough clerk and interim manager Alekka Fullerton, Department of Defense contractor Robert Rouse, and Tennessee resident and real estate investor George Zoukee, before voting unanimously to ask all of them to participate in more in-depth […]
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Jackie Haddock-Swift and Scott Brewington returned from their Las Vegas honeymoon, during which they stayed at the Luxor Hotel and Casino, met a drug dealer on Fremont Street, and did a lot of walking. Haddock-Swift spent a day at the spa. To keep themselves from gambling, she said they attended shows, including the Carrot Top comedy show, “Criss Angel MAGICjam,” […]
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New bear attractant law on the books for 2021
A new bear attractant law will be in place in the Haines Borough this year. On Tuesday, the assembly adopted an ordinance clarifying the definition of a bear attractant and specifying acceptable ways to secure them in a 4-2 vote with assembly members Gabe Thomas and Jerry Lapp in opposition. Under the new law, a bear attractant nuisance is […]