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Borough Mayor Peter Micciche, who authored the ordinances, says they're a response to one individual who has harassed borough employees and made unreasonable records requests.
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A company will use the site to batch concrete for the Cooper Landing bypass and Juneau Creek Bridge projects, but nearby residents say they're concerned about the safety of trucks accessing the site, which is located on a rural road near Cooper Landing Emergency Services.
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The mayor’s office has been gathering community input on the current website, which they say is hard to navigate. On Tuesday, the Borough Assembly approved a $90,000 contract for the work.
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Kachemak Selo has been waiting on a new school for more than a decade, and in 2016 the school district received millions in DEED grant money to do that. On Tuesday, the Borough Assembly voted to transfer that grant to the state's Department of Commerce to remove match and design requirements.
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The borough will host a public outcry auction in May, and a secondary online auction in August for unsold properties.
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Borough Maintenance Director Tom Nelson said just two months into the season, invoices for school district snow removal already totaled 54% of the full snow removal budget.
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A 1,000-acre borough-managed parcel near Cooper Landing has been the subject of a master plan study. Based on that study's recommendation, the borough classified the parcel as a site for resource development and recreation.
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Elam is currently serving his second term on the Borough Assembly. He filed to run in District 8, the seat currently represented by Ben Carpenter.
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Most members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly and the mayor sponsored a resolution calling on the state legislature for a timely, inflation-proof increase to per-student funding.
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted in a new invocation policy last night, which will allow volunteer chaplains to give invocations, rather than members of the public. In 2018, a previous borough invocation policy was found unconstitutional in Alaska Superior Court.