Tag Archives: Kodiak City Council

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Tuesday night at its work session, the Kodiak City Council consulted the Brother Frances Shelter about how to help the transient population downtown and improve the community at the same time. Executive Director Monty Hawver sat on one side of the table with Mayor Pat Branson on the opposite side, and she asked him to share his experiences …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Results are in for the Kodiak Island Borough and Kodiak City municipal elections. For the two seats of three years on the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly, Scott Smiley won 1079 votes and Matt Van Daele won 1042 votes. They were running against Monique Lewis, who got 685 votes, and there were 148 write-ins. Dan Rohrer ran unopposed for …

The legal harvest of a deer during hunting season last year on Near Island has had some lasting and unintended consequence. Because of that incident, staff in the city managers office at Kodiak City Hall have decided to float an ordinance change that would ban the discharge of firearms within city limits. It would also ban the discharge of other “dangerous …

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 …

The Kodiak City Council will have two vacancies to fill come October and will hold its municipal election concurrent with the Kodiak Island Borough. At the city’s filing deadline Monday at 4:30 p.m., only the incumbents, City Councilmen Charlie Davidson and John Whiddon had thrown their hats into the ring.

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 …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council is in the process of gathering facts about a building code change the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly recently passed without the council’s knowledge. The assembly made the switch from the 2012 building code to the 1997 uniform building code in an attempt to relax engineering requirements for home owner / builders in the borough. …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT It looks like the Kodiak City Council will pass the fiscal year 2017 budget as is, but at its regular meeting last night postponed final budget approval to its next regular meeting. City Manager Aimée Kniaziowski explained she recommends the postponement because city staff missed the required public posting notice deadline and wants to be on the safe …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council recently put their final stamp on a letter which would provide community input on Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch management to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. Each Kodiak governing body held a meeting Tuesday to review and approve that letter. This last step comes after months of discussion …