City of Craig is the municipal government of Craig, Alaska, on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Its City Council sets ordinances and budgets, overseeing police dispatch, the public library and city elections, and weighs in on regional issues like the Tongass roadless rule.
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Craig council weighs putting back topics it cut from Shaan-Seet agreement
The Craig City Council on Oct. 15 considered putting back two topics it had cut from a proposed working agreement with Shaan-Seet, Inc., after the city administrator said the corporation would not sign without them.
The topics are protection of the environment and customary and traditional hunting, fishing and gathering, and cultural and historic preservation. Shaan-Seet is the Alaska Native village corporation for Craig.
Council member Michael Kampnich said the council had removed the topics over the summer because members questioned whether the corporation's role was the same as the tribe's. "At the time we did, believing that the purview of these sections was more tribal rather than corporation," he said.
City Administrator Morris Ververs wrote in an Oct. 7 memo that the council had two choices: approve the agreement with both topics restored or not enter it at all. He recommended approval.
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