LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Assembly to Take Final Vote on Rate Hikes
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
An ordinance increasing the monthly fees for sewer, water and solid waste service is on the agenda for final approval at tonight’s regular meeting of the City and Borough Assembly.
The ordinance was passed on first reading two weeks ago. A public hearing on the measure will be held prior to the final vote on passage. The meeting is at 6 p.m. tonight at Centennial Hall.
If approved, the monthly rates for residential users would increase:
– from $53.60 to $56.01 for wastewater.
– from $39.35 per month to $40.53 for water.
– from $30.32 to $30.95 per month weekly pickup of a 48-gallon solid waste container.
_ from $50.94 to $51.99 per month for weekly pickup of a 96-gallon solid waste container.
(The standard sizes of the containers has increased from 32 and 90 gallons, respectively.)
Rates for larger volume solid waste pickup also will be increased, as will connection fees for water and sewer.
Other Business
In other business tonight the Assembly will consider an ordinance to spend $10,000 from the Visitor Enhancement Fund for a pilot shuttle bus service in the downtown area on cruise ship days.
The funding would come from some of the $83,656 available in the Visitor Enhancement Fund, which is created with bed tax revenues.
The project was proposed by downtown business operators to encourage cruise ship visitors to venture farther into the business district from the cruise ship bus stop at Centennial Hall.
The $10,000 would fund a pilot project this summer. Service would be provided by Sitka Tribe of Alaska, with a 14-passenger mini-bus making stops on a circuit on Harbor Drive and Lincoln Street, city staff said.
Also up for Assembly consideration tonight are resolutions supporting a grant application for $1.5 million to replace the electrical system in Eliason Harbor, and $5 million to replace floats at Crescent Harbor, and a resolution supporting Sea Level Consulting’s application for a $25,000 historic preservation grant for local cemetery research. Sea Level Consulting is a business owned by Anne Pollnow, chair of the Sitka Historic Preservation Commission.
Other items on the agenda are approval of a lease of property at Gary Paxton Industrial Park to Northline Seafoods LLC, which is owned by Pat Glaab.
The Assembly also will consider introduction of an ordinance on “defense and indemnification of officers and employees.” The ordinance would create a specific section in the general code to provide defense and indemnification for city officers and employees against claims and lawsuits “resulting from good faith efforts to perform their official duties and responsibilities.”
The ordinance comes in the wake of a lawsuit against the city by former mayor Marko Dapcevich, who alleges the city did not abide by the city charter when it awarded a bid for a dock at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park.
After the city rejected Dapcevich’s offer to settle, he amended the suit to name City Administrator Mark Gorman and Mayor Matt Hunter as individual defendants “for the purpose of obtaining damages as the result of (their) failure to abide by the CBS (City and Borough of Sitka) charter.”
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Photo caption: National Republican Chairman George Bush takes a drink of water offered by Jan Craddick, Sitka delegate, during the Republican convention held here. Mrs. Craddick explained to Bush that the water was from Indian River, which means, according to local legend, that he will return.