Second Borough and City Joint Work Session to Address Consolidation Advisory Vote

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Tomorrow the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council will hold their second joint work session since the two bodies declared they would open up better lines of communication.

Based on the agenda, the meeting will be a venue for discussions between the council and assembly, but also provide a platform for staff updates. One of those is about the building department the city and borough share through a memorandum of agreement.

The borough’s decision to revert back to an older building code led some city councilmembers to suggest breaking that MOA. At the last joint work session in August, the assembly and council decided that borough and city staff would look over the MOA language. Staff will come before both bodies again to share its progress.

Also on the agenda is consolidation. The borough assembly decided to put an advisory question to voters in order to determine whether residents would like the borough and city to consider consolidating into one government. Following the borough municipal election earlier this month, the votes came in 1235 yes and 919 no. That means the borough and city will now embark on a discussion about consolidation.

The city will chair the joint work session, and it’ll begin at 7:30 Wednesday at the Kodiak Public Library.

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