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Clips from Kodiak Island BoroughClear

Cody Allen

“the contract actually already expired June 30th, and so I'm not really sure how that process would work, potentially extending and things. So that contract is completely expired at this time.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:18

Jared Griffin

“the state released new demographic estimates yesterday. So I took a look at them, and there's a really— there's some really interesting things in there that I think will help guide what we do.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:06

Jeremiah Gardner

“It was brought to my attention that I believe there was sort of an informal protest letter written on this.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:30

Amy Williams

“As we do when we get any kind of a protest, it goes to the manager, and the manager has a certain amount of time to answer it. We answered it right away, sent that reply back to the other bidder. They have it, and I got an email back that said thank you, and that's the only thing that we've heard. I have shared that response with both your Deputy Prime presiding officer and the mayor, just so they were included on what was going on.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:46

Amy Williams

“we also talked about looking at possible code changes to make that section more clear in the conflict of interest section at agenda setting this week. So I think we've done some work around making sure that those optics aren't something that we have to worry about in the future. I do have copies of the— because I thought this might come up— of my reply to the contractor if you want to see that. I can distribute that now or later or whenever, but that's been issued and the protest was denied.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:23

Jared Griffin

“the public's confidence doesn't come from us avoiding difficult appearances. It comes from knowing that we apply the same rules to everyone.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:38

Jared Griffin

“A conflict exists when someone has the ability to improperly influence the outcome. And I don't— I don't think that appearance alone is not enough evidence to show that an influence has occurred., and we have to ask, you know, which decision in the procurement process was improperly influenced? And we can't point— there is nothing there. So if we can't identify one, then we're objecting to who won and not how the contract was awarded. So I would strongly urge you to pass this contract.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:51

Cody Allen

“although it's ambiguous on if an aggrieved bidder is allowed or not allowed to protest per borough code, we decided to allow that anyways, and so we actually extended the protest period to give them time and provide a formal protest to the manager for review”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:28

Bo Whiteside

“procurement processes, when following best practices, which I am confident that Director Allen and his staff did, along with the Meta Manager, they are very rigid and prescribed in process. And certainly, in respect to anyone highlighting a potential conflict of interest, there is very prescriptive ways that you capture the process.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:24

Jared Griffin

“In April 2020, we had roughly 700 residents in their 70s. Now we have 900. That's a huge jump in just 5 years. The median age in Kodiak went from 35 to 36 in that period. That's a whole— that's a really significant shift in just a 5-year”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:24

Jared Griffin

“Even more significant is, I think, is we continue to see fewer young children entering the population. In April of 2020, we had 970 residents aged 5 to 9. That number last year was 800. 802, Um, actually. We have a rapidly aging community.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:18

Jared Griffin

“The pace of outmigration appears to be slowing, but over the past 5 years, our borough saw nearly 1,000 residents leave. And it was a net loss of about 650 residents when you consider births and, you know, people moving in.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

1:00

Jeremiah Gardner

“we have in our code Chapter 2.35010, Section E, it says municipal officer, appointed official, or employee may not use his official position for the primary purpose of obtaining financial gain for himself or his spouse, child, mother, father, or business. Um, not that it is, uh, the primary financial gain in this situation, but the optics of this look a little bad to certain people in the community. I think it would be wise to extend the current contract for one month and talk about how we want to approach this situation and basically put this back out to bid so that we can clean up the optics on it. So I will be voting no on this one.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:36

Cody Allen

“the other bidder that is filing the formal complaint/informal protest was deemed non-responsive. Per our bid documents, we have all the outline requirements to make a bid responsive or non-responsive. Per code, it's really the assembly's decision if they're a responsible bidder, but so we went through— and our checklist there that's in the bid documents, and they didn't provide a bid bond for bid security. And so that automatically deemed them non-responsive, and we let them know as such.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:36

Amy Williams

“as soon as we identified that there was going to be a potential conflict at that pre-bid meeting, every step that could be taken to separate the two was already done. But given the staff member's job here, in their normal course of work, they would have nothing to do with anything on the creation of or tabulation of or opening of or just— that's just not their job here. She does work here, but that's the end of the, the correlation.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026

0:31

Jeremiah Gardner

“I deeply appreciate what Mr. Mayor and Mr. Whiteside said about the cleaning contract. You made me immediately think that I do really trust the staff here. And no, the optics aren't perfect, but you were exactly right. I'm glad you were able to change my vote. I do think we need to take a look back at that code and clean that up just a little bit to avoid the presence of poor optics, because it's still poor optics.”

Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of July 2, 2026 · Jul 2, 2026