Tag Archives: City of Kodiak

Mitch Borden/KMXT At the  Kodiak City Council’s work session tonight, there will be a presentation about the Sun’aq Tribe’s Tribal Transportation Program, also known as TTP, and projects it’d like to collaborate with the city on. In a letter to assistant city manager Matthew Van Daele, the Sun’aq Tribe’s Transportation Coordinator Randy Boskofsky outlines some tasks the two organizations could …

110 Bancroft Dr. has been vacant for awhile and its owner wants to rezone it. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT You might think rezoning a vacant lot would be a simple process. But for the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly, making a decision to turn one slice of land at the edge of a neighborhood into a business property is …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A possible change to city sales tax drew public outcry this week. At a recent Kodiak City Council meeting, Debbie Refior was just one of the people to speak about the negative effect of sales tax on local business. She said in the past there were three car dealerships – now there’s one. “Kodiak’s my home. It’s been …

Fishing boat going out to sea. (Photo: Gruscana/ Oscar’s Dock and Boats of Kodiak/flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT A recent proposal to the Alaska Board of Fisheries asks it to limit the amount of salmon fisherman can catch in the Kodiak area. That’s according to Heather McCarty, the fisheries analyst for the City of Kodiak and the Kodiak Island Borough. At a …

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 …

Whether the sentence handed down by a U.S. District Court judge on Monday ends the years-long saga of Kodiak’s so-called “stripper boat” remains to be seen, but as it stands, the owner will not be jailed for his environmental crimes. Darren Byler, who, with his wife, owned the Wild Alaskan, a crabber converted into a bar and strip club that …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT At long last Kodiak is getting snow, which means sledding, snowmen, and snow plowing. While the City of Kodiak has dealt with its fair share of ice, the city public works department now has an eye on its snowy roads. Public Works director Mark Kozak says crews typically start earlier to avoid downtown’s on-street parking, which can be …

Despite the expenditure of thousands of dollars by the Kodiak City Government, the city’s residents finally, and narrowly, approved a proposition that could open the doors to allow unionization of city employees who currently are not allowed to unionize. The figures were released Wednesday afternoon after the city’s Canvass Board counted all outstanding ballots. Citizens voted 413 Yes, to 395 …

Residents interested in filling their evenings serving their neighbors for the next three years have until about 4:30 today to submit their nominating petitions for local office. On the city level, Councilmen Charlie Davidson and John Whiddon, the incumbents, were the only names in the hat as of late this morning. On the borough assembly, incumbent Scott Smiley is seeking …

As KMXT reported last week, the Kodiak Police Department has discontinued the use of video cameras attached to officers’ uniforms. That was confirmed in an e-mail from Chief Ronda Wallace. Mayor Pat Branson, who was out of state last week, said the move was a surprise to her and the city council. “Well, it’s an administrative and police policy. The …