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Borough clerk Nova Javier signs new assemblyman Scott Smiley onto assembly. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly has a new member to fill the place of Mel Stephens, who resigned from his position in April. Stephens did not give a reason for his decision, but it did come soon after the assembly voted to hire Kodiak’s new …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough remains without a permanent manager today after the assembly failed to approve the contract with Michael Powers. The vote, taken by a short-handed, five-person assembly will be brought back up for reconsideration before the full seven-person assembly at April 21st meeting. That’s because, after counting votes during the 45-minute debate, Assemblymen Frank Peterson and Larry LeDoux …

Michael Powers. (KSBW TV screen capture) Jay Barrett/KMXT Last week, a Kodiak Island Borough Assemblyman published, at his own expense, a page-and-a-half long screed in the Kodiak Daily Mirror decrying his colleagues’ selection of a new borough manager. The contract with Michael Powers of Fresno, California, is on the agenda for approval Thursday. But Assemblyman Mel Stephens is highly unlikely …