TRUCK FIRE – Firefighters knock down a fire in a Ford Explorer truck in Arrowhead Trailer Park in the 1200 block of Sawmill Creek Road Saturday evening. One person received fire-related injuries and was taken to the hospital, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said, and the truck was considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Warren said. The fire hall received the call about the fire at 5:33 p.m., and one fire engine with eight firefighters and an ambulance were dispatched, he said. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

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     At the March 19 meeting, the Assembly awarded $83,072 to Visit Sitka to round out the current fiscal year, but postponed until April 22 a decision on the tourism agency’s request for $200,000 in addition to the $300,000 baseline funding for FY2020. Visit Sitka, a department of the Sitka Chamber of Commerce, is funded by bed tax revenue, advertising sales and memberships.
    In other business Tuesday night at Centennial Hall, the Assembly will hear a report from interim Police Chief Robert Baty and review the possible selection of a third party investigator to look into the police department.
    Also, the Assembly will consider a renegotiated hiring contract with Bruce Wall as planning director. A city hiring committee recommended hiring Wall, but at its last meeting the Assembly voted against hiring him because of a disagreement over the terms in the proposed contract.
    Supplemental appropriations to be considered Tuesday night are final approval of $50,000 for city legal expenses in the lawsuit against the city filed by a former Sitka Police Department jailer, and $56,163 for upgrades to the city’s data center “to maintain uninterrupted information technology operations.”
    A couple of proposed ordinances, advanced by interim planning director Scott Brylinsky that will make major changes to the zoning chapter in the Sitka General Code, are on the agenda for introduction.
    One will amend the supplemental district regulations and development standards allowing smaller lot sizes, reduced setbacks and a higher percentage of lot coverage by buildings on residential lots, except those designated low density.
    The other ordinance for introduction will amend the zoning chapter to create a cemetery district. It will allow owners of land with cemeteries to restrict those lands to cemetery-related uses. The purpose section of the ordinance states that it is a “highly restrictive” district, but that the ordinance “adds no lands to the newly created cemeteries zoning district.”
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20 YEARS AGO

March 2004

Businesses using the Centennial Hall parking lot testified Tuesday against a proposal to charge them rent in addition to the $200 annual permit fee. City Administrator Hugh Bevan made the proposal in response to the Assembly’s direction to Centennial Hall manager Don Kluting to try to close the $340,000 gap between building revenues and operational costs.


50 YEARS AGO

March 1974

Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President William S. Paul Sr. will be special guest and speaker at the local ANB, Alaska Native Sisterhood Founders Day program Monday at the ANB Hall.

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