On Tuesday, the Haines Borough Assembly rejected an ordinance that would have given the borough the ability to enforce its recommended 14-day quarantine requirement. At a meeting on March 24, the assembly passed a resolution requiring people entering the borough to quarantine for 14 days with exemptions for workers traveling to support critical infrastructure. To have their […]
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Should the public library stop foyer pickup?
The Haines Borough Public Library resumed offering pickup service this week after closing March 25, but that may end Tuesday when the assembly will vote on a draft resolution to stop the exchange of any materials, even pickups. Library director Carolynn Goolsby closed the library last month. “I told people to stay home because of the (borough’s) […]
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Borough-subsidized ferry untenable, assembly says
The Haines Borough Assembly voted to send a letter requesting the legislature allocate funds to cover service gaps after the breakdown of the Matanuska, the last state ferry serving many Southeast communities. The decision emerged from a discussion about the possibility of borough-subsidized ferry service at the Feb. 11 assembly meeting. Borough manager Debra Schnabel said she added the […]
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Assembly members propose library, museum consolidation
While Government Affairs and Services Committee members were disinclined to include an assembly chamber in the public library’s expansion project, two expressed interest in consolidating the museum or the visitor center with the library. “I think the borough needs to think of consolidating more,” GAS committee member Gabe Thomas said during a meeting this week. […]
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Assembly appoints Lapp to fill vacancy
Haines Borough Assembly members appointed Jerry Lapp to fill the assembly’s vacant seat by a vote of 3-2 at a meeting Tuesday night. The seat had been vacant since Dec. 10 when Sean Maidy resigned. Earlier this month, the assembly solicited letters of intent from interested candidates with a deadline of Friday, Jan. 24 at 4 p.m. […]
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Assembly rejects taxes, leans toward cuts to close expected budget gap
Funding priorities in the upcoming budget cycle for the Haines Borough Assembly include education and public safety. For everything else, funding levels are negotiable, assembly member Paul Rogers said. An assembly meeting last week with borough department heads and Nils Andreassen, executive director for the Alaska Municipal League (AML), focused on ways the borough can accommodate state […]
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Flat budget still hurts, leaders say
Gov. Mike Dunleavy released his flat-funded 2021 budget last month, with the biggest threats to Haines being a prolonged hit to ferry service, a larger responsibility for school bond payments, and a one-third funding cut from the community assistance program that helps pay for areawide services. The proposed budget totals $4.5 billion in state spending […]
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Assembly approves harbor fee increase
Harbor fees and port tariffs will be increasing, beginning Jan. 1. On Tuesday, the borough assembly unanimously adopted an ordinance increasing several port tariffs and harbor fees, most significantly at the Port Chilkoot Dock and in transient moorage. The Port Chilkoot Lightering Float, which is used exclusively by tour companies and cruise ships, has two […]
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Maidy resigns over charter interpretation
Haines Borough Assembly member Sean Maidy resigned Tuesday, following the assembly’s 4-2 approval of a resolution interpreting charter to specifically allow for areawide emergency police service. “I resigned because I cannot be a party to an assembly who willingly and knowingly violates their own charter,” Maidy told the CVN after the meeting. He emailed his […]
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Maidy hangs up on GAS committee
At a borough government affairs and services committee meeting Nov. 28, member Sean Maidy, who attended by phone, hung up on the two other committee members before they agreed to forward to the assembly a resolution interpreting charter to allow for areawide emergency police service. “I in good conscious can’t vote on this,” Maidy said. […]