Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott is proposing the borough ramp up its monitoring of heli-ski tour companies and stiffen fines. Scott will ask the assembly Tuesday to change the borough’s GPS data collection policies and adopt a graduated fine schedule for violations. Under the change, each operator would be subject to a minimum of 10 GPS spot checks […]
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Mayor joins outcry against changed ferry plan
Haines Borough officials say they were left in the dark regarding a recent, abrupt decision by Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell to change plans for the Alaska Class Ferry. Parnell announced Dec. 4 the Alaska Marine Highway System would pursue plans to construct two smaller, less expensive ferries rather than a single, larger one. Parnell said […]
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Mayor seeks time responding to Dodovs
Borough officials are not insensitive to the grief experienced by the Dodov and Liberman families and friends in the loss of Nicolay Dodov and Rob Liberman. Neither are we ignoring the requests for an official response to take action or consider changing how we regulate the heli-ski industry in the borough. The borough is in […]
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Mayor raises question about insider contracts
Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott is looking into whether borough code could have been followed more carefully in the awarding of a borough contract to a borough committee member earlier this year. Lenise Henderson Fontenot, a member of the Facilities Master Plan Steering Committee, received a $9,000 contract to conduct the needs assessment portion of a larger project […]
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Mayor pushes downtown mural
Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott said owners of the shuttered Coliseum Building on Main Street are agreeable to taking boards off windows during summer months, but balked at Scott’s idea for a mural on the structure. “I’m a little discouraged, but I’m not giving up. I still believe conversation should be the solution versus taxation (and regulation),” Scott […]
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Mayor digs into harbor assault case
A mayor’s report found differing explanations for why a charge was reduced by plea bargain in a case involving an alleged assault on the Haines harbormaster. According to a report presented by Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott at Tuesday’s assembly meeting, Assistant District Attorney Amy Williams said she would have preferred to take the case to trial, but could […]
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Mayor opens ‘dialogue’ over plywood
Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott said last week that “a dialogue has been opened” concerning Main Street’s boarded-up Coliseum Building. At the urging of the planning commission, Scott wrote owner Dorain Gross Aug. 26, asking if the borough could persuade her to remove plywood from windows “so that this key corner of our commercial district could present as […]
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Mayor aims to improve communication
Haines Borough Mayor Stephanie Scott said this week she’ll hold weekly meetings with the borough manager to ensure items don’t miss her attention. The Mayor sets meeting agendas, but neither she nor assembly members were notified of an August complaint and request for assembly action from the family of heli-skier killed during a tour here in March. The complaint instead […]
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Mayor, assembly not informed of request
Haines Borough Manager Mark Earnest on Wednesday cited a busy schedule for not informing Mayor Stephanie Scott or assembly members of a request for assembly action from the family of a dead heli-skier who claim a local guiding firm violated safety provisions of its borough-issued permit. The borough received about two dozen pages of information from Alex and Natalia Dodov […]