Tag Archives: Kodiak Island Borough Assembly

The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly held a special meeting on Thursday night with one purpose: to review and pass a letter it is sending to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. The letter, being sent in conjunction with the City of Kodiak, is in regards to the rules the fishery council is promulgating to manage Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch. …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Last night at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting, borough staff cleared up confusion regarding a slash pile situation in Chiniak. The assembly had been under the impression that private land owners in Chiniak would like to hire A-1 to remove burned trees on their land and was requesting that A-1 be able to transport those trees …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly’s regular meeting tomorrow night is all about land: selling it, buying it, and dealing with what’s on it – like trees. Borough Manager Michael Powers says a couple of private property owners have approached the borough about their intentions to remove timber from their land, which adjoins borough property. The owners have been …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Two groups are asking the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly to sign a contract which would restrict development and otherwise protect the natural resources on Lesnoi-owned Termination Point and Long Island. The Great Lands Trust came before the borough last fall and at different points over the last year hoping it would accept the conservation easement on the properties, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly continues the struggle to allocate funds to nonprofits during a difficult fiscal time. At its work session last night it went over staff’s projected funding for the community groups. In June, the assembly asked staff to look back over the budget and see if it could scrape up extra sources for funds. Borough …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council talked communication at their joint work session Tuesday night. First on the agenda was the assembly’s decision to change building codes, which it did without sitting down with the council. The borough and city share a building department through a memorandum of agreement, and the assembly’s decision to revert …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Tonight, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council will hold a long awaited work session to discuss two items that have been controversial due to the difficulty in communication between the two bodies. One topic is the consolidation of the borough and city into one unit of government and the other is the memorandum of agreement …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough will pursue replanting at least two types of trees in the Chiniak area. At its regular meeting last night, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly approved entering into a contract with Koncor Forest Products to buy spruce tree seedlings for reforestation of the burned Chiniak area. According to Resource Management Officer Duane Dvorak, staff is …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The issue of reforestation in the burned area of Chiniak will come again before the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly at its regular meeting tonight (THURS). The assembly will review a draft for a contract with Anchorage-based Koncor Forest Products to purchase 300,000 spruce tree seedlings. In the regular meeting packet is a letter to Resource Management Officer Duane …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The talk around the table at the Kodiak City Council work session Tuesday night emphasized the problems in communication between the council and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly. One item on the agenda addressed the assembly’s decision to revert the borough’s building code back to the 2012 international residential code in order, some assembly members said, to relax engineering …