Tag Archives: Kodiak City Council

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak residents voted for the borough and city to explore possible consolidation, and that’s what members of staff and the elected bodies are doing. Borough Mayor Dan Rohrer updated the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council on their progress at a joint work session last week. He explained he, Borough Manager Michael Powers, City Mayor Pat …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council are continuing in their effort to keep each other in the loop following an agreement to improve communication between the borough and city. Tonight they’ll hold a joint work session to update each other on issues important to the entire community. Along with updates from the borough lands committee, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council held what the city clerks called a “secret vote” at the council regular meeting Thursday night. The clerks charged councilmembers with nominating one of their colleagues to the position of deputy mayor, who fills the place of the city mayor if they are absent from meetings or unable to complete their term. Once they …

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 …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT After a series of conferences and consultations, DOWL and the City of Kodiak have settled on a Near Island conceptual land use plan. At a council regular meeting last week, City Manager Aimée Kniaziowski said the city is happy with the draft. “I think it gives us a way to plan so that we can continue to maximize …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council spoke in favor of adding more diversity to local governing bodies at their joint work session last week. While trading ideas between assembly and council, Assemblyman Larry LeDoux expressed a wish for better representation from different cultures. He recalled a discussion he had with a Filipino elder. “He said …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly broached the topic of consolidation for the first time since voters decided the two bodies should explore forming into one unit of government. At the council and assembly joint work session Wednesday night, Assemblyman Larry LeDoux said he wanted to leave the meeting with an idea of how to …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT 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 …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT School road safety and gun restrictions were both issues that came up at last night’s Kodiak City Council regular meeting. The council held its second reading and public hearing of an ordinance that would restrict the discharge of firearms within city limits. It comes from a concern for pedestrians in areas where some hunters kill deer, such as …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council is considering a ban on the discharge of firearms within city limits. It’ll hold a public hearing for that ordinance at its regular meeting Thursday night. After a deer was legally harvested on Near Island in 2015 during the hunting season, the city administration decided it would be best to ban all so-called “dangerous …