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Clips from Kodiak Island BoroughClear
0:12
Dan Rohrer“You may not— you absolutely may not, no exceptions— pull your assembly. You can pull them for one thing only and one thing only. And that is, do you guys have availability for a meeting?”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of September 10, 2026 ·

0:13
Dan Rohrer“What you may not do is poll them in regards to substantive topics that you just— I mean, and I get it's so much more efficient, right? But this is democracy, and it's not about efficiency.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of September 10, 2026 ·

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Jeremiah Gardner“in the event of a natural disaster or a landslide down by the crane, like somebody can't make it in from the Flats... I would like to see, uh, that person be able to attend virtually”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of September 10, 2026 ·

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Jared Griffin“Resolution Number FY 2027-05, accepting and appropriating funding from the Alaska Rural Health Transformation Program for the Kodiak Island Hospital chiller replacement project.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Meeting of September 10, 2026 ·

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Jared Griffin“Motion passes 6-0.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Meeting of September 10, 2026 ·

0:34
Chris French“The proposal that went through the Burrow Lands Committee was disposal of portions of those properties.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

0:43
Chris French“you're not developing them when they're in the natural use district, as well as they're in the natural use land use designation for the Comprehensive Plan as well. So that's why staff is recommending to retain them.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

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Chris French“Resolution A is the one that you would make your initial motion on before to open the public hearing because that one is in the positive in terms of disposing of it, you always— you have Resolution B, which is the one for retention.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

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Chris French“Staff recommended no because of what the current Comprehensive Plan and the current Land Use Plan for this area stated when it was rezoned to Natural Use District.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

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Chris French“I think we have about 14 comments in opposition to disposing of, of the portions of these two properties.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

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Chris French“Staff has reviewed the application against approved plans for the area as well as the 2008 Comprehensive Plan. Staff recommended that the portions of the subject properties be retained. And not disposed of.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

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Chris French“the recommendation from the Lands Committee was that they would be disposed of through a request for proposals.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

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Chris French“these are going to be quite a bit further off because we're talking about request for proposal, and then that would lead to a lot of other things that would need to happen because depending on what the proposal is, it still would have to be rezoned to something other than natural use. You would still have to have a subdivision.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

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Chris French“all 14 comments are attached to the work session's agenda item, so you should have those in front of you on your screens.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission Work Session of September 9, 2026 ·

0:37
Aimee Williams“While acting in this capacity, the ENF Director will perform all official managerial duties and receive compensation in strict accordance with the Kodiak Island Borough Code. This resolution will become effective immediately upon its formal adoption by the Assembly.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 3, 2026 ·

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Aimee Williams“This resolution establishes a clear administrative succession procedure to address emergencies or urgent Borough matters It officially designates and confirms Cody Allen, the Engineering and Facilities Director, to serve as the temporary administrative official. This designation will only take effect during a simultaneous absence or disability of both the Borough Manager Amy Williams and the primary designated administrative official Seema Garut.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 3, 2026 ·

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Jared Griffin“In the meantime, just want to say thanks to Cody for stepping up and giving a— wishing Sarah good luck too.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 3, 2026 ·

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Jared Griffin“Motion passes unanimously.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 3, 2026 ·

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Aimee Williams“It wasn't an option to make Cody earlier because we needed to wait to get him past his 2-year anniversary as we changed the code to say you had to be here for 2 years before you could serve in that capacity. And he agreed to it, so I think that's an important part of it. He'll get his first experience as administrative official the first week of December when Chris Seaman and I will all be at AML.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 3, 2026 ·

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Jared Griffin“Designating Engineering and Facilities Director Cody Allen as a temporary administrative official during the absence or disability of the Borough Manager and designated administrative official. Mr. Whiteside. Move to adopt Resolution No. FY2027-04. Second.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of September 3, 2026 ·

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Chris French“Our agenda, our one agenda item for tonight. Is to discuss an ordinance amendment to the procedures and timelines for declaring and filling assembly vacancies. And we had a little hiccup this time around, so I'm glad we're right on it to address it.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 27, 2026 ·

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Chris French“Across the board. Okay, if I can get it done by Thursday, I'll add it to the agenda. Fantastic. We have a couple of light agendas Um, so this would be— it's a good time to clean things up.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 27, 2026 ·

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Nathan Svoboda“basically what he said is we're in agreement that the borough could be getting fined for negligently feeding wildlife. I mean, it's a known issue. You guys know it's a problem. Granted, you're trying to address it, but it's still— it's a violation of state regulation.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

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Jeremiah Gardner“It seems like he's negotiated us a pretty sweet deal, and as long as we do have AIM Maintenance as the contractor for that service district, it seems like, um, let's, uh, let's squeeze the deal for as long as we can is what it kind of seems like to me. We're saving money, but Let's prepare ourselves for the future”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

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Nathan Svoboda“there's undoubtedly going to be bears now and in the future that have to be dispatched just because we can't change that behavior. It's so ingrained in them at this point that no matter what we do, it might not be successful at all. We're fine with that.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

0:27
Scott Arndt“This works very well. The service district is aware that it won't last forever, and we will be looking into what options we would be coming forward to, to recommend, because there is other borough property that would potentially be better. So thank you very much for your consideration.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

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Jeremiah Gardner“So at what point is a bear damaging the borough's property, and at what point do we have the authority to euthanize?”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

0:51

Anamika Powers

“what it boils down to is basically bears must be kept out of the trash, period.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

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Jeremiah Gardner“at what point do we say that we are dealing with defense of life and/or property and euthanize problem bears? 99% Of Kodiak is a wildlife refuge. This 1% is mine, it's yours, it's our neighbors.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

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Nathan Svoboda“keeping bears out of the landfill— and I know this frustrates Cody because it is a moving goal, but, but you want a measurable objective— that is the measurable objective. If there's one bear in the landfill, that objective is not met.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

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Scott Arndt“There's an agenda item that says review of Service Area Number 1 lease with Fields Rental. I've not been contacted as to why this is on the agenda, so I'm here to answer any questions in regards to this.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

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Nathan Svoboda“92-230 Clearly states you cannot negligently feed wildlife.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Work Session of August 13, 2026 ·

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Chris French“The applicant proposes to consolidate, consolidate 5 existing vacant lots into 1 lot. This particular subdivision request is associated with Case 27-005. That's also on your agenda, which is a rezoning from the RR-2 District to the Sea Conservation District. The purpose of the subdivision before you for the consolidation is for that— is related to the rezone because that rezone of Conservation District requires a 5-acre lot minimum.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission of July 15, 2026 ·

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Chris French“yes, it is true that it could conceivably consolidate the lots and keep the RR-2 zoning in place.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission of July 15, 2026 ·

0:34

Michael Martin

“pertaining to your question as to why the rezone back to conservation, and the intent behind it is that, as you are aware, these last few years have been a bit difficult in Kodiak. And one of the challenges that we've had with our model that we had built out at Cliff Point Estates was getting traction and interest in the properties with the challenges of Kodiak's economic and pricing model.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission of July 15, 2026 ·

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Chris French“The proposed subdivision consolidates 9 existing vacant lots into 3 lots. Each of those lots will exceed the 5-acre minimum. Of course, the 5-acre minimum is needed to meet the Conservation District's minimum lot size of 5 acres. And again, this subdivision is related to Case 27-005 on your agenda, which will rezone these parcels in the subdivision and in the previous subdivision cases. From RR2 to C Conservation.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission of July 15, 2026 ·

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Chris French“Staff does recommend that the Commission forward a recommendation of approval to the Borough Assembly for this rezoning request. I will point out that in the ordinance that goes before the Assembly, the effective date will be based on the submittal of final plats for the 4 subdivisions.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission of July 15, 2026 ·

1:15

Michael Martin

“one of the things that we had heard from a number of individuals who had expressed interest in Cliff Point is a desire for more flexibility as far as what they can do with the land out there, in addition to not having the the having that Alaskan dream of having more space and not having your neighbors quite so close by. And 2 acres, of course, is a fairly decent amount of land, but when many people come up from the lower 48 and they think of Alaska and the dream of Alaska, they envision those sort of expansive areas.”

Kodiak Borough: Planning and Zoning Commission of July 15, 2026 ·

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Mark Vizcocho“I believe effective leadership begins with listening, listening to our residents, understanding their concerns, working together to find practical solutions that serve the entire community. If appointed, I will be committed to transparency, collaboration, and thoughtful decision-making.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Work Session of July 16, 2026 ·

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Mark Vizcocho“I believe that, uh, school, youth— we need to focus on our youth and we need to focus on our school, because without education, it's going to be hard to have a society. So we need to focus on school. We need to teach our kids that education is very important.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Work Session of July 16, 2026 ·

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Rich Gonzalez“Mark's appointment to the Kodiak City Council in 2012 taught him important lessons about public service, listening to residents, working collaboratively, and making the difficult decisions.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Work Session of July 16, 2026 ·

0:27
Jared Griffin“The following applications were received by Mark Anthony Viscoccio, Sean Brecky, Caleb Callahan, and Alexander Sweeney.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Work Session of July 16, 2026 ·

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Rich Gonzalez“He currently serves as president of the Filipino American Association of Kodiak, president of the East Elementary School PTA, and vice president of the Kodiak Booster Club.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Work Session of July 16, 2026 ·

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Jared Griffin“what we will do during our regular meeting is we will have time to consider. There's an opportunity for us on the agenda during the regular meeting to consult. The Assembly can consult and take a vote. Recommend you stay around if you can. But the Assembly might also decide to postpone the vote until next week, and we have to decide before this time next week anyway.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Special Work Session of July 16, 2026 ·

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Janiese Stevens“I am a small business. I employ a lot of people in this community and in the state of Alaska. And things like this— and I can— I, I contribute to scholarship foundations, nonprofits. And, and the more I'm regulated and taxed, the less I can do for our community in those ways.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 1 ·

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Aimee Williams“So I'm excited about the possibility.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 1 ·

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Jared Griffin“It's in the week of September 21st. Okay. Yeah. So we'll be putting together some messaging and pitches along with the city with the new manager there too, so— or interim manager. So, yeah, it's been a pretty fun week.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 1 ·

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Janiese Stevens“the state of Alaska already has the highest marijuana tax in the nation. I pay my fair share. By continuing to overtax, you are rewarding non-regulated markets.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 16, 2026 Part 1 ·

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