Kodiak Island Borough

The ongoing effort of the Borough Assembly to consolidate the borough and city governments may slow down for the summer. The City Council is preparing to table the discussion until after the summer, but it is still looking at tactics that they can apply towards rebuffing the consolidation effort. The borough formed the consolidation committee in 2019, and since then, it has made recommendations …

As the Kodiak Island Borough begins to nail down next year’s budget, the debate between education funding and raising property taxes has taken center stage. This year, the Assembly is considering two proposed budgets. The budget prepared by the Borough manager’s office set a $21 million budget, including over $11 million for education support, but no money for non-profits and …

The Kodiak Island Borough is proposing to eliminate Service District 2 and is looking for public feedback. Map of Service Area 2 (Kodiak Island Borough) Service District 2, which includes residential and park areas along Monashka Bay Road, was formed in 1991 to allow those residents the power to organize water and sewer services. However, since then, the district began …

As the Kodiak Island Borough School District begins to look ahead to its summer class schedule, Superintendent Larry LeDoux spoke to KMXT about the school district’s plan for the future where the pandemic is concerned. “We see summer school services- our Summer Enhancement Program- as an extension of the current school year in preparation for the next school year. So …

This week, the City of Kodiak and Kodiak Island Borough will be taking the final steps toward streamlining coordination and hopefully reducing costs for running the two largest municipal bodies on the island. It will be called the Cooperative Relations Committee, comprised of three members of the City Council and three members of the Borough Assembly. While the committee will …

The Kodiak Island Borough is once again considering a deal with the state of Alaska over the paving of Otmeloi Way, a state-owned road near North Star Elementary School and home to many Service District 1 residents. Funded through a combination of state and federal grants, the state is offering to pave Otmeloi if the Borough takes responsibility for future …

There will be two new members on the Borough Assembly soon. That’s according to the unofficial election results released Wednesday morning. Geoff Smith and Aimee Williams will likely join incumbent Julie Kavanaugh on the Assembly after the election is ratified later this month. Incumbent Rebecca Skinner was not re-elected to her seat. And the mandate was overwhelming. The top-three vote-getters—Kavanaugh, …

As of midnight Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, only early voting ballots for Tuesday’s municipal election had been reported by the Kodiak Island Borough. The only contested seats among the city council, school board, and area service boards were three seats on the Kodiak Island Borough, two of them currently held by incumbents Julie Kavanaugh and Rebecca Skinner. But as of late …

Please note:  This story has been updated to include a late breaking development from the Kodiak Island Borough clerk’s office, to assist voters who did not receive mail in ballots. Elections are never easy in Alaska’s smallest communities. And this election day is especially problematic in the Kodiak Island Borough’s outlying communities. As of Tuesday’s election day,  some voters still …

The Kodiak Island Borough’s efforts to get mail-in ballots to outlying communities in time for this Tuesday’s municipal election has run into some problems. Dorinda Kewan, Mayor of Port Lions. Port Lion’s mayor, Dorinda Kewan, says some voters haven’t received their ballots yet. “I’m concerned about the process they set up,” Kewan said. “I know it’s new. This has never …