Kayla Desroches/KMXT Last week, the City of Kodiak officially accepted its new city manager into the position. Mike Tvenge sat down behind the manager’s desk at the beginning of Thursday night’s city council regular meeting and stood up again mid-meeting to take his oath, which the city clerk officiated. Tvenge joined the city in 2015 as deputy city manager to …
Read More »Deputy City Manager to Become City Manager
Kayla Desroches/KMXT The City of Kodiak is about to transition to a new city manager. Current city manager Aimée Kniaziowski is soon to retire, and at the Kodiak City Council regular meeting last night, the council entered executive session to consider the a contract with her replacement. Kniaziowski presented a brief timeline of the situation. “Back on January 24th, you …
Read More »City Turning Extraction Site into Collection Site for Clean Fill
Pillar Mountain gravel pit, center, from Google Earth. The gravel quarry about a half-mile beyond the City of Kodiak’s water treatment plant on Pillar Mountain Road could soon see a re-purposing. Action taken at Thursday’s city council meeting authorized a contract with engineers to design a way to use the site as a spot for clean construction fill – that …
Read More »City Council has Nearly $1-Million Up for Votes Tonight
Kayla Desroches & Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak City Council has before it at its regular meeting tonight (Dec. 8), a contract to demolish the old A. Holmes Johnson Public Library building downtown next to the post office. The city is considering the property as the site for a new fire station. While the current Kodiak Public Library is marking its …
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