North Slope Borough Assembly Meeting July 14, 2026

Future changes affecting the program. Are there any— is there anything that we should be worried about when it comes to the future and possible changes affecting that program?

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Assembly, listening audience. I'm in Burnell for the line of questioning. To provide a high-level, uh, what I would consider non-confidential update on that. I will say that when the Big Beautiful Bill was being enacted in 2025, in about May, we saw the attempt for budget reconciliation discussions. When it left the House of Representatives, it had a 90-10 split, and then in the Senate it was changed to a 70-30, which eventually became federal law.

And so an item that Congress would take up Um, but that requires the majority that they had in the Senate up until last week. And so, um, we're tracking things as they change because with the passing of Senator Graham, it changes the dynamics of the United States Senate majority. Um, and so we're not sure if budget reconciliation will be a thing that is pursued now. But if it is, there may be an item in there in regards to NPRA grant mitigation fund language.

So. That help, Abayag? It does, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just to continue following up real quick, I just want to say thank you for taking another look into the Aero Medical Division report and how we could better understand that. Also want to reiterate kind of what you said in the beginning was thank you to our search and rescue, our police, our fire, and our first responders, and your support, Mr. Mayor, for, you know, getting as many able bodies to another village to help in that search and rescue effort.

So I want to— I just want to tell you thank you for that. And also thank you for the Tewakta books. You know, we've got a story to tell, you know, as it was the Founders Day just recently and the history of the North Slope, you know, it needs to be told, it needs to be read. And some of these other books that we're— that your administration is putting out, you know, it's a lot of history in there. So, you know, I also want to say thank you to IHL-C because they're part of that storytelling process to the tourism season that's going on today.

Throughout the summer. So that's all I got. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President.

Greenup, do you have more to add, Mr. Mayor? Thank you, Mr. President. Just, um, uh, I guess to provide a little bit of detail on some of the things that are a little complicated to report, um, For example, just yesterday we received the parts to get the icing boots for the King Air put in. Hopefully they're getting put in today. But the difference between the King Air being able to take a medevac and not take a medevac, depending on the weather, depending on the community that the call is made for, those kind of things will— we're trying to flesh out in how we— right, because maybe there's no icing condition on slope..

But then once you get south of the Brooks Range, there's icing conditions. So then the King Air is able to partially respond, get him to Barrow, while the other aircraft coming from— right now we're using Public Air— has been more responsive to the over-the-Brooks-Range medevacs. So, so those kind of details is what we're trying to flesh out and how we would report a partial response, a non-response, or other things. Um, based on the last thing you said, uh, you know, I think that's one of the other things that We realize as the younger generation steps up to the plate to begin to run the functions of not only the borough but all of our other organizations, is that I made the joke with IHLC that part of their strategic plan would be hosting a modern Unipkak, because as awkward as it may be, the folks in Scott Danner's age group and Gordon Brower's and the Assembly President sitting next to me are part of the younger elders that we should probably take perspectives on. And so we do have a rich history, not only built on the 2 or 3 generations above us that have brought us to where we're at today, but even the generation immediately above us.

So much to learn. And I joke with folks of my father's age and say, you guys only had to remember 50 years of history. By the time I'm your age, I'll have to remember 80 years of history. So we need to keep the foundational pillars of why we stood up the different organizations in our region in the back of our mind as we move forward into the next 50 years of the North Slope Borough, all of our other entities within the borough in addition to that. So thank you for the opportunity to discuss those things.

Mr. Mayor, do we have any other questions from the assembly on the monthly status report?

Those are compliments.

Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, and even the individual that read the report. I just want to thank the Bureau for providing hamburgers and hot dogs for, you know, we combine the Founders' Day and the Fourth of July activities in our community. So, I just wanted to— our people enjoyed, you know, even the kids enjoyed the hamburgers and the hot dogs. That was very, very helpful. So, and with that, even we also included the EPT workers to help with the Fourth of July activities for the city.

So that really helped us with the budget on providing the event, and it was very successful. So again, thank you to the North Slope Borough for, you know, allowing communities to use the workers and even, you know, providing simple things as hamburgers and hot dogs because today's prices, they're so expensive. So I just wanted to thank the borough I just have a couple on the mayor's report.

For the public works, thank you for even including the Bucy portion, how we see in our report for the public works for the village's call-outs. To see, you know, the volume of calls for wastewater, water and sewer for the community of East Pawlik that shows even the high demand of our problems we have with water and sewer. I just have a question on the non-interruption trouble calls. Can someone expound on that? And I just have a couple on— for the CIPM, if I can just list my questions and you could just answer them, you know, whoever wants to go first.

But on the CIPM, the design— there's a sentence on the work for design efforts for Point Lee. You know, you got the hybrid water and sewer system. My question is the time frame and when, you know, because we all know Point Lee's— their permafrost and their roads has a big effect on, their water and sewer systems. So I'd, you know, the design efforts and the hybrid water and sewer, I'd like, um, when that's going to start and, um, how are we going to help Point Lee for the task force? Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for expounding on the Police Task Force, um, report, because I just want to thank, um, the North Slope Borough for, you know, seizing all these, um, hard drugs.

You know, my goodness, there's, um, 85 grams of Fentanyl, that's— and then when Mr. Mayor, um, read the 42,500 lethal doses, that is a lot of damage that could have come into our communities. Even the 6+ pounds of cocaine, the 26 pounds of methamphetamines, you know, that's, that's a lot, you know. There's even the marijuana. But I just want to thank the police task force and even the U.S. Postal inspectors, you know, for doing, you know, catching these.

And I know that they still just an ongoing battle, so I just want to take this time to thank them. But I just only have just the public works and CIPM questions. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Mayor. For the line of questioning, Director Adams and Director Danner are ready to speak to the CIP and the public works items respectively.

We're doing hybrid systems above ground in the communities of Wainwright, Point Lay, and Barrow. There's differences between all of them. Wainwright is probably going to be septic tank sewage collection with piped underground water, and then the same is going to apply to Point Lay versus in Barrow. We're still in design on that. There's some changes in lots that are happening.

That might change design, but the intent is to have suction vacuum system above ground for that whole block. And so, Director Downer can— I mean, Director Adams can provide more detail that I'm not getting into yet. And I guess we'll just pitch to Director Downer to cover the difference between the bus callout systems versus the overall water and sewer and how maybe they might overlap. Director Danner. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, members of the Assembly.

Thank you for the question, Assemblywoman Keneally. To answer your question on the non-interruption trouble calls, those are calls that we received that did not result in a shutdown of the system, whether it be water or sewer. So as you look at our chart, you'll see for all our outlying communities, we listed as non-interruption trouble calls. AKP at 42, Atkisook at 2. These are calls that we receive regarding the system but did not result in us shutting down the system.

All the other calls that we received, you'll see listed out there, did result in service interruptions, whether they be freeze-ups or needing jetting or a leak. As far as in Utqalvik for the bus system, those would be the non-actionable calls., that we received regarding water or wastewater. I hope that answers your question, Assemblywoman. Does that help, Eva, on that question? Yes, thank you so much.

Director Adams. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, members of Assembly, Assemblywoman Kinevac, Bernadette Adams for the record. For the, uh, Point Lay water sewer, we are installing sewer tanks already. Um, the hybrid system, like the mayor mentioned earlier, is where we're using the sewage tanks, but we're going to go above ground with the water piping. Um, that's just getting started in design again.

We have to work on easement stuff with Culley Corp, which we've had run into problems in the past, and hopefully we'll get past those in order to start the construction. If Everything goes well, it won't start until 2028, probably after bond funds are received end of 2027. Hope that answers your question. Director Adams, I hope that helps. Uh, Eva, if you have any follow-up.

Thank you, Director Adams, and thank you, Mr. President. Yes, it does, and Thank you for the timeframe, you know, when their system, their new system, hybrid system is going to be coming up and hopefully with that being said that the residents speak to their corporation to see how we— what we need to do to move forward.

For all those pipes being on top land. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly, listening audience.

Just to show a little bit of the work that we've done to get the borough moving as a cohesive unit and kind of break down the silos, make sure they're sharing information so different projects can move forward. Planning Department had a good, successful meeting with Kali Corp new leadership, and so that new information as of yesterday will be a part of not only Siwat discussions, above ground water and sewer discussions, among other things. And then to the point that Director Adams brought out as far as bond timing, if I may have a little bit of leniency here, if you go to item 8W, That's part of what myself and Director Lamani have come up with as far as being able to time bond proceeds when projects are ready. And when we get to dissecting 8W, I would just ask the Assembly members to think about when we report on something being 2 years out, if there's any way that we can shorten that timeframe. 8W will help work towards being able to shorten that timeframe.

So just wanted to share those things. And then I know you started with Assemblee Woonkidaabeg with the Founders Day celebrations. And that's another thing that I wanted to make sure and talk to on the radio is that I don't know how it was done in the past as far as directing holidays to each of the communities to have their different celebrations, knowing that each community does things a little differently. We take a different approach essentially for holidays like that and July 4th, Pure Au Rafter type holidays. We rely on the community city leadership to tell the borough when they would like holidays so that they can coordinate those celebrations with the rest of what they're doing at the city level.

And so that idea that, you know, borough is going to dictate when holidays happen for different communities is not the way we operate. So I hope you, along with every other resident listening, enjoyed the um, not only the Founders Day but the July 4th parades and games that were held at each community level. So, you know, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Do we have any other questions on the monthly status report? Mr. President, Lehman Brower.

Thank you. Two questions. Um, first one in regards to the field team— or not, the sewer Tanks in the outlying villages that are installed by the North Slope Borough, for the electricity to heat those, is that going to be tied into the water sewer electrical, or is that— is that going to be responsibility of the homeowner?

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Assembly, listening audience. I'll be in for the line of questioning. Firstly, I'll say, as I've looked down the aging reports on PG&E power generation and distribution, I have yet to find an example where the borough turned off anybody's power due to delinquency. But to answer the specific question, around, uh, the septic tank heat traces? Director Danner.

Director Danner. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, members of the assembly. Thank you for the question, Assemblyman Brower. Yes, so if the sewage tank was connected by the borough to replace a service that has failed, it's connected to the borough panel and the borough pays for the electricity for those heat traces on the sewage tanks. I hope that answers your question.

Yes, it does. Mr. President, thank you. Mr. Downer, Mr. President, I've got a follow-up under a different section, um, under the Port Authority for the Kahului seawall. Are they going back to their 24-hour operations Um, I know last spring that they had gotten approval from the City of Qaqulivik to, uh, due to their described emergency, to increase their activity to 24-hour operations, um, and then may have stepped back. And are they going to increase that back to 24-hour operations?

And then a follow-up to that one would be, there were some acoustic studies done during that time frame, are they going to do anything further? And as ice recedes or the fall whaling season coming up? Thank you. You know, Assemblyman Brower, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Assembly, Assemblyman Brower, for the line of questioning.

A couple of things. We'll follow up with Bryce in regards to— and it's also Army Corps— in regards to the acoustic monitoring. I know during the spring whaling season they had acoustic monitoring deployed just to get kind of a baseline on what their operations may have caused as far as sound propagation down into the water column. And then on the operations, I don't think that has been determined yet. Ned Arie, who's kind of serving as our liaison to the seawall construction project, I know the last report that I saw from him dated last week Friday was that They're still in holding pattern waiting for the sea ice to, uh, weak from Barrow, and then they'll bring the barge operations in to offload the rock.

But what has been, I guess, a little bit of a holdup is from the time that they originally surveyed the coast to now, which I believe was 2018 to now, it's eroded in some parts 15 to 20 feet from where that design is. And so the contractor is having to work with Army Corps of Engineers to get amendments to the design to scoot the seawall up against the tundra versus putting it out closer to the middle of the ocean now, which would have been where the tundra was 8 years ago. And so that's been part of the delay. I think we're waiting for that to be resolved before we have a positive idea on what the construction will look like moving into September and October. But I would imagine for the most part of August in September.

The activity that we'll see is barge offloading, and I will have staff follow up on whether they intend to operate on a 24-hour clock versus a 12-hour or any other shift. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Does that help?

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for that response.

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly. Just want to give a little more information as it Turns to the septic tank issue. What Director Danner described is when we take a septic tank, right, when we take a water sewage user off of the pipe system to a septic tank where we have a little lapse in service that we're trying to work creatively with the Housing Department on, is for new construction being able to get onto septic tank and what that looks like. Very similar to what the water sewer hookup list looks like, and so We've yet to come to a solution that's fair for everyone, but we will be at some point coming with a solution requesting funding from the Assembly for what we believe is fair. So thanks for bringing it up.

You know, Mr. Mayor, do we have any other questions on the monthly status report?

But could I have something? Monthly status report.

Mr. President, I'd like to move to approve the monthly status report. There's a motion to approve the monthly status report. Do I hear a second? Second. Second.

Seconded. Any further discussion? Question. Ah, who's that? Go ahead.

Thomas K. Jr. Mr. President, I just want to thank the mayor for being, uh, that's on our team. And, uh, what's that, uh, or that underwater, um, equipment? Yeah, just for the search. Um, what would it take for our over-the-board, um, get one for each community? That is not something, uh, or I'll be looking into for future.

Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly, Assemblyman Thomas K. Navarre Jr. for the line of questioning. And again, um, the underwater ROV is a system that the mayor's office initiated purchase on, I believe, 2 years ago. And it runs about $250,000 a pop.

There's some parts and whatnot that we're going to be up— upfitting. We're going to come to the assembly with a request to get a second one, but also upfit the parts. So we'll— in supplemental, we'll expect somewhere around $300,000 in requests for that. Aside from placing one in each community and having to store it, maintain it, etc. That thought hasn't, I guess, been fleshed out.

But what we do for the second year in a row, we did Point Hope last year where we flew all of our SAR coordinators in addition to any volunteers that were willing to take the time down to Point Hope. They did the same ROV training down there last summer. This summer, the training took place here in Barrow, not, not here where I'm at, but here in Barrow. And so as part of the after-action report from the response that we put together for the community in Nuxitl, a couple of takeaways with Mr. Brower-France, who was acting director at the time, was that we'll push for a second ROV to be kept in stock at the hangar, a parts package. It runs about $20,000 per training for getting all of the volunteers and paid staff out there.

So that's something that we've already incorporated into the budget that you guys adopted in March. In addition to that, One of the things that we saw as a weakness was they require about a 3,500-watt generator, and most communities and personnel— personal power generators are in the 2,000-watt. And so I've authorized Brower to put together purchases of 3,500-watt generators in each of the communities, which will make the difference. They're about 180 pounds with fuel. It'll make the difference on being able to fly one more volunteer from Barrow to each of the communities or to pick up in any other communities if we don't have to bring a generator.

And so that was the lessons learned example that we had on the response to Nuuk last week, was that we were limited to sending 3 volunteers because we had to bring a generator plus the ROV. If we get a generator for each community, we could probably bring 4 volunteers. And so there was a lot of after-action lessons learned. Continuous improvement, even though I believe that the execution of that response was good and excellent. There's never a reason why we can't reassess and see if we can improve it in any way.

So look forward to the Assembly support in supplemental budget for the increased ROV opportunities for our volunteers and search and rescue staff. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. President, do you have any follow-up? Thank you, thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, Mr. President.

Um, that's, that's, um, that's a start, and that's a really good piece of equipment. So thanks again, Mr. Mayor.

Is that you, Frederick? Yes, sir, Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. President. And I'd like to thank the mayor and the search and rescue group for their efforts and in response to New Exit and all the other incidents that happened across the slope involving search and rescue. Um, in regards to the topic of the ROVs, due to the cost, the, um, essentially almost the price of a new piece of large equipment, um, but we understand its importance, as you indicated, the importance of pre-staging equipment within each community to, to address the need if an ROV is flown in. Is there an opportunity to, due to life, health, safety, the response times available in each community as your SART coordinators in each community are being trained Is there an opportunity to turn this into a CIPM project as it could be turned into an asset, a tool utilized for response needed in each community?

I don't know what the criteria would be to, to accommodate that, but with it being a specialized piece of equipment requiring training, parts packages, etc. Uh, what would that take to initiate something like that for that type of review? Maybe a PAR or, um, something along those lines to see if that could be something under a CIPM project moving forward. Thank you. Thank you, Mr.

President, members of the assembly, Assemblyman Brower, for the line of questioning. A number of things go through my head in regards to the borough's ability to designate things that are capital in nature. We recently went down this question with some external law review, and we found a 1963 Supreme Court case that gave deference to the, essentially, the CFO of the municipal government to make some determination, have some leeway for determination on what's capital in nature. But I, I want to be clear with, I guess, my intention as it is now is to pursue a second ROV. I don't like to make big changes without seeing the results of those changes happen, right?

And so we made the commitment 2 years ago to purchase the ROV. We did the training. We, I believe we kind of have all of the Volunteers embracing the ROV technology now because they see how much easier it could be and then creating that ownership. You know, they're going to take care of these, these pieces of equipment, etc. And after we get a second one in, based on, you know, the responses that are needed, I don't want to end up in a position of buying 8 of them and maybe not having to use them all, and then in 5 years all 8 are outdated or something like that.

And so I think visiting it every couple of years or every year maybe to look at the rolling stock that we have, right? 'Cause at some point the first ROV that we bought 2 years ago is probably just going to become a parts ROV for the new one that we're going to buy in 2 years or something like that. And so I think, I think we have what we need, and when we get to the supplemental, I think that'll be enough insurance. I mean, that's one of the things that Speaking with the ROV guy, Mr. Crossman, right, we share the understanding that if you have one, you have none. And so at least having a second one would be a backup.

Um, and there's already been a change in the technology from the one we used, uh, that made us decide to buy the first one 2 years ago. They've upgraded it, and so now the new ones that we have have the upgrades. And so, um, we could look at making it capital, capital, a bull, but that's not what I'll be requesting at this point. I think for the $300,000 in the purchase of the actual asset plus a parts package is what the department, Search and Rescue Department, is asking. So I will relay that ask to the assembly next month.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Hope that helps. Do you have any follow-up?

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for that response.

I'm hoping we really put an effort to increase our safety preventative measures in each village with the life vest. Being available. I know all the search and rescue folks usually have those available throughout the villages, and I'm hoping that effort is stepped up. Mr. Mayor. Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. President. On that front, a couple of things that I'd just like to update the listening audience on is the cities in our borough for the most part, rely on something we call the Economic Impact Assistance Program, which we were able to successfully renegotiate 2 years ago to a record high of $11.5 to $13.5 million with a 2% escalator that's ending last week. We are currently in renegotiations to up that to somewhere around $15 million, maybe a little more. Director Amani and myself will be closing that that loop here in the next couple of months to get a final execution, which will give more assets to the cities and for the community of Pointe-Laye, the native village of Pointe-Laye, to distribute that funding however they see fit, knowing that parks, recreation, and boat docks, along with graveyards, are part of city responsibilities generally.

One of the other things that I was talking with search and rescue staff about is Maybe standardizing life vests, do the vetting. You know, this is the one you want to get, essentially, and relaying that to the cities, but also being partners in what that looks like to purchase. And so those discussions are ongoing. But at the end of the day, making sure the resources are available to the cities to execute their powers has been my focus. So thank you for that.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Do we have any other questions on the monthly status report? Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, thank you. Um, the Housing Department area, um, just gonna raise the concern of homes with pilings and foundation resurfacing and endangering the already homeowners.

Recently, past few years, we've been having high winds up to 60 miles an hour during the summer, so we have families evacuating their homes to the school because they are concerned their home is going to fall due to the pilings resurfacing. We already have one home that is condemned due to this issue.

Thank you for the past services to our— all our communities across the slope with braces on the homes. That really helps with the shaking. Um, it doesn't really help with the permafrost melting. My suggestion is silt being filled in. I believe gravel will hurt the permafrost and the nuna collecting heat and melting that permafrost faster.

Just seeking help for these already homeowners, the older homes that were moved here.

We already all are hurting for homes, and I really wouldn't like to see a home being lost due to no foundation. Thank you. We're here now. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Assembly, listening audience. Sun Moon for the line of questioning.

A couple of things that come to mind with that, I think, highlights the importance of the community engagement, making sure department leadership are getting out to each of the communities for not just a day trip, spend a few days there, really try to intimately understand the issues that your department will be dealing with on behalf of that community. Community. And with that, I'm happy to say that yesterday and this morning, I had some follow-up with staff as we made the rounds around the community to check in what needed to be taken care of. I'll be working with Public Works and CIP to make sure that spoils from dig-ups are made available to residents to backfill pilings if they see fit. It should arrive at about no cost to the resident, but we're going to be working that detail out.

In addition to— I have yet to have the follow-up with Director France based on, some of the things that he's been witnessing over the last day and a half here in Kali. But I, I know I will have a follow-up with him for any other ideas. So at least being able to backfill, uh, pile pilings that, uh, have got airspace in them now, uh, we're going to work to try to make sure that, uh, gravel sources or the silt source is available to the resident. Green Oaks Mayor. Does that help, Celia?

Yes, thank you, Mr. President. They've been using thermosiphons in some areas where they've had unstable ground, so like the Sigalooaks and whatnot, and thermosiphons seem to work pretty good. Who is that? It's a Vike, Mr. President. Assemblyman Bernal.

Thank you, Mr. President. And, um, under Health and Social Services, Talks about continued advancing key initiatives, including the development of a proposal for the— for a detox facility. What's the timeline on seeing something like that? Obviously, it's been a want and need here on the North Slope for some time. So just— I forgot to read that highlight.

So thank you. We know, Assemblyman Bernal, Mr. Mayor, we know, Mr. President, members of the Assembly, listening audience, Assemblyman Bernal for the line of questioning before I pitch over to Director Alingauk. I will say that with any new facility, and I know folks probably get tired of hearing this, but the landlockedness that we experience in any of our communities is going to pose a hurdle to being able to build any new infrastructure on slope. I am happy to say that we have the final execution of one of the first purchases of UIC property to the borough in a little bit.

Should be happening this month. And the way we understand it with UIC is after that purchase complete, which is the shop, one adjacent laydown yard that we've been using for years. Once we get that finalized, they're willing to have more discussions on land acquisition for, for borough purposes. So first things that come to mind, obviously, the, the detox and health department center that we've talked about over the last few years. Wildlife Department has been another one that has been looking for new infrastructure, just to name a few.

We have housing department that's going to be working not only with UIC but all the other village corporations where we don't have housing complexes. And so we're making progress as it relates to the land acquisition that then allow us to move forward with capital expenditures for infrastructure. I know Alimak has some other details for short-term opportunities. If you can hit on some of those. Thank you, Assemblymember Bernal, for the line of question.

This is Lynette Heppo, for the record, Director of Health and Social Services Department. Um, so far, planning for a detox program, our initial phase, our Phase 1, um, we are planning to utilize the old Gathering Place location, um, across from AC. Um, so as soon as we're able to move over Gathering Place into the new Belk, um, site, We are planning to start the programming or start implementing and working on planning stages for doing the first plan, first stage of the detox volunteer detox program out of that. So hopefully we're potentially projecting to start in August, I believe is in August. And then for the second phase, for something a little bit more sustainable, we are working to partner with ASNA Um, with the Rural Health Transformation Program, um, in partnership with them, they did, um, submit an LOI for a detox program.

Um, so we're waiting to hear back if there is confirmation for that, and we're pretty hopeful, um, that we could work on that partnership.

Director Hepa, hope that helps. It does. Thank you, Director Hepa and Mr. Mayor, as a key initiative of the wants and needs of the North Slope and the residents. So thank you for that update. Thank you, Mr. President.

Do we have any other questions on the monthly status report? Mr. President, thank you. On that topic for the detox facility and the plan moving forward, I know the The original design of the Wellness Center as it sits now was a detox SATS facility. Um, the structure is already there. 80% Of it may be usable for its original intent.

Is there any opportunity to, to relook into this to create office space for the Wellness Center And then revert back the facility to a detox center to help those concerned as far as land acquisition or repurposing facilities to look along those lines also. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Assembly, listening audience. Simon Brower for the line of questioning. Not to bring it to a 30,000-foot view, but that's something we've been talking about generally. With the need for office space, right? We saw the, what is currently the Public Works Administration building that used to be housing needing office space.

We continuously have the challenges of bursting at the seams from, from the admin staff perspective, and we've had kind of very preliminary discussions on what it would take to centralize the admin staff, in Utqiaġvik for all of the departmental functions versus being sporadically spread about. Um, and that kind of leads into your question on making more office space available so we can revert back these facilities to what their intended purpose was. Um, and so the discussions are kind of had around lunchtime coffee, but we haven't I guess, identified a piece of land that we would like to bring to the corporation to look at administration facility. Unfortunately, I reached out to them about the Bobby Fischer Field for that potential, but they have other plans for it. And so once we get execution of the land sale that we started with, with UIC, I think the Opportunities for more discussions will come, but it is not off the table for reverting the wellness center back to what the intended use was in the '90s.

So, thank you for the reminder. Follow up. Any follow up? Yes, Mr. Barron. Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for that response. I know the wellness facility is a large footprint, single story.

Could a CIP project, PAR, be completed to— if the concern is land, to build upwards, create a second story, can the structure hold it, create that office space to an existing structure, reverting back the existing structure to its original intent.

Utilizing our bonding process to make that revision or need to that facility. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President, members of assembly, listening audience. Salud y Brunel.

I'll follow up with CIP and appropriate departments to look at what we have for PAR money, and we'll take that into consideration. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, any other questions on the monthly status report?

Call for question. Question doesn't call for. All those in favor of adopting and approving the monthly status report, do so by saying aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye. Aye.

I was supposed to say nay. Hearing none, your monthly finance or monthly status report has been, uh, Adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the discussion, consideration, and acceptance of the status report. Next item on our agenda is 6C, monthly financial report. But before we go into that, we'll take a 7.5-minute break.

The Assembly Chambers back.

Assembly President, we're all here at the Assembly Chambers.

Thank you. This meeting is being recorded and summarized. I'll call the North Slope Borough Assembly regular meeting and public hearing back to order. Moving on, on our agenda, we have 6C, monthly financial report. Mr. Mayor, Mr. President, I'll ask Director Lamagna to walk us through and present the monthly financial report.

Director Lamagna. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, members of the assembly. For your consideration is the monthly financial report for the month of May 31st, 2026. I'm pleased to present that, you know, as we transition into the last part of the fiscal year, the borough's financial position continues to remain very strong. We still have one month left relative to the activity with respect to the finances of the borough, but we'll go through that transition here in the next month.

I'd like to spend a few minutes to go over the, uh, uh, some of the financial highlights with respect to the monthly financial report. Starting with the revenues, as of May 31st, the general fund revenues totaled approximately $577 million, which represents approximately 94% of the FY26 adopted budget. Predominantly being comprised of the property tax revenues received from oil and gas property tax assessments. Additionally, we're seeing intergovernmental revenues continue, continue to increase as grants are received and appropriated, which the year-to-date actuals are $12.4 million at month end. And then also the investments earnings within Central Treasury continue to outperform the very conservative budget assumptions that were established at the first part of the year by more than $26.9 million to date.

And then the charges for services are continuing to accrue with budget expectations. They're at approximately 65th percentile. We anticipate to do a lot of the true-ups here at the next month as part of the year-end audit process, but, uh, they're still tracking with the, uh, budget expectations. Moving on to the expenditures, the general fund expenditures totaled approximately $388.4 million, or 74% of the FY26 budget for the month ending May 31, 2026. Thus far, we've, uh, committed 100% and transferred the funding to the school district, as well as 73% for the Ilasavic College.

I remember seeing just in the last couple weeks the appropriation for the remainder of the commitment for fiscal year '26, and that should be reflected on the June activity. Also, thus far we made $7.8 million relative to the debt service., as of the June activity, we made the substantial debt service payment in the sum amount of $114 million. Thus far, everything remains, uh, to expectations with respect to the departmental spending. There's a couple of departments that are under target, uh, which doesn't mean that's a bad thing. That just means that, um, we have a lot of the resources to be looking at, and that will ultimately flow through fund balance at year end.

Moving on to the capital improvements, as of May 31st, we've invested approximately $1.31 billion for both active and completed projects, which represents approximately 83% of the appropriated funding to date. This also includes the The, the bond ordinance for 2025, which is totaling approximately $200 million. We're seeing for just the month itself approximately $11.1 or $11.3 million in activity that's been dispersed. On the enterprise funds, again, these are reported on a cash basis and we convert it into the modified accrual at the end of the fiscal year. With respect to Service Area 10 and the Real Property Management Fund, they both reported positive operating income of approximately $12.7 million for Service Area 10 and $3.8 million for the Real Property Management Fund.

This is due to the increased demand in the enterprise. The Power Generation and Distribution reported an operating loss of approximately $21.2 million. Dollars, reflecting the borough's continued subsidy for the services that we provide to the outlying communities. This does not include Barrow.

We've also recorded 3/4 of the operating transfers that we generally set for the enterprise. So, so far we've transferred $17.6 million. And we anticipate to do the true-up as part of the year-end audit process to ensure and to see where things stand within the power distribution. Uh, and then also same thing for the technical training, which currently represents an operating loss of approximately $3.6 million. Uh, we'll be able to do all the true-ups of the transfers at year-end.

On the investment side of things and fund balance, Central Treasury and And, uh, the cash position totaled approximately $898.9 million at the end of May. This is down by $42.6 million, which reflects just operational needs of approximately $30 million. Um, the intermediate fund remains very stable. In fact, we're seeing an increase to where at month end it was approximately $200.5 million. And the account balance for the bond proceeds is at $536 million, which is a reduction of approximately $11.3 million to account for the disbursements and the utilization of the bond proceeds.

Just to give you some context, Mr. Mayor, Mr. President, with respect to the financial position of the borough, is that we haven't touched the intermediate account. The intermediate account is intended to be sort of the backstop of the operating account of the borough. Uh, in the event that we were running low on cash throughout the year, then the intermediate fund would be something that would be utilized. We haven't been able to touch the intermediate account at all, all year long, and we don't have any insight to be able to utilize that, therefore invest in that in longer-term maturities. That yields us a higher rate of return.

Just wanted to flag that for your consideration. Mayor, thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly, listening audience, uh, and Director Lamani for providing that piece of information. And I, I just would additionally provide that the only way that we're able to do that is by a strong budget discipline and making sure we're aware of budget increments or decrements or surprises that may come down all of a sudden. We have plenty of flexibility across all of our accounts and our emergency contingency fund within the finance department and the mayor's office to cover all of those things, which allows us to yield interest-bearing monies in, in that intermediate funds. So, uh, doesn't happen by accident.

Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor. Moving on to the permanent fund, we saw a positive return for the month end where the fund— the permanent fund increased by approximately $46.2 million, or roughly 3.37%, which brought the total fund at approximately $1.42 billion. Uh, the month's, uh, performance was driven primarily by the strong gains in the global equity markets as well as the fixed income portfolio.

Global equities represents roughly 51% of our asset allocation, which is roughly 11% overweight from the initial target. We saw a significant increase in one of the best months of performance for equities, global equities in the market, and that's attributed to a couple of different factors. There's continued interest and strength in technology-oriented sectors such as AI as well as infratech technology. Companies. The data that came out within the first quarter from the Fed's and a lot of the earnings in the corporate earnings provided for better than anticipated outcomes.

So that strengthened the position of the global equities as well as also the moderate inflation across the developing companies that originally the volatility that existed within the first part of the year. Also, the fixed income grew by approximately $9.8 million or 3.7%, and this is again just on the yields and the Treasury yields stabilizing after the months of volatility. If you recall earlier into the year, there's conversation or discussions by the Fed about reducing or taking the rate cuts. So now that things have sort of stabilized, we're starting to see those high-quality investment grade and fixed income yields recover modestly. On the real assets, however, we saw a slight decrease of approximately, approximately $6.9 million or approximately 4.6 3%.

This is due largely to the volatility, the commodity, uh, prices, as well as the geopolitical uncertainty. We've all seen what's been, uh, happening in the Middle East. I know that, uh, Scott, um, Public Works Director, has been monitoring the fuel prices, um, with respect to our, uh, outlying communities. And so that's what's, uh, triggered to see the reduction in the, uh, real assets. We anticipate these things to start stabilizing in the next quarter or so, and we'll be closely monitoring.

But the benefit of having a diversified portfolio is that we're able to see gains on some of the asset classes while whatever is taking place on the short term across the globe, we start to see some, some impacts. But overall, we've already locked in on bulk fuel, right?

Mayor, thank you, Mr. President. That is incorrect. So the way the bulk fuel contract is working this year is we're having a 15-day average. Once you get past the month of June into July, you have a 15-day price average that we execute on. And so Director Danner, unless he has in the last 3 days, I think it was the last time that I spoke with him about it.

Has not pulled the trigger yet, but we are going to be right at that point. No cause for concern for anybody. Really, all we're trying to do is wait a few days to let the last 15 days when the Strait of Hormuz and Iran conflict had its kind of the cease that was happening with the conflict with the United States and Iran account for that 15-day average, which would be a decrease., and then our weighted average across the board would be a little less. And so that's all we're doing is waiting a few days to make sure that 15-day average accounts for that decrease in price, meaning the prices before the ceasefire that were higher are no longer part of that 15-day lookback. So, um, hope that helps.

Greenup. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor. Moving on to the grants activity, we have more than 160 active grants, which we've just breached slightly over $200.1 million across the board. A lot of these grants are targeted towards the MPRA impact projects, including transportation, housing developments, energy efficiency initiatives. Today we have approximately 48% completion across the grant-funded projects.

Last month we represented a number of the different grants that had been completed. However, since then we've seen a number of new awards that have come in to get us to that, uh, $200 million plus. Again, the general outlook for the borough financially is that it's very strong. We'll present to you the unaudited figures for as of June 30, 2026, at the August meeting, and then we'll be able to start the audit process in putting that stuff together because that's when a lot of the year-end accruals take place, a lot of the adjustments. But I do anticipate that as part of the fiscal year '26 that we're going to have a surplus that's going to ultimately roll into the fund balance.

That's all I have for this month's, uh, financial report. Happy to answer any questions, happy to go through any of the particular, uh, areas of the financial report, Mr. President. Great, Director Lamani.

Do we have any questions? What we have before you, the monthly Financial report.

It's the wish of the assembly to approve. There's a motion by Tina. Do I hear a second? Second. Seconded by Robin Donahue.

Under discussion. Do you have any questions on the financial report?

Mr., you have more to add, Mr. Mayor? Thank you, Mr. President. Just wanted to, um, kind of, uh, Aforementioned that as part of next month's financial report, you'll see hopefully the reported increase in the IRR based on the investments within the permanent fund. If you might recall, the administration brought before the assembly a direct investment policy that allowed for 10% of the previous year's standing of the permanent fund to be invested directly for the purposes of driving up opportunities for the borough. And as a part of that, I believe we saw upwards of an 80% IRR on the direct invested funds as part of that.

And so not only are we benefiting from the direct investment with that fund and the fund, the business enterprise, but we're also benefiting on the back end with making sure that they're doing work in the North Slope, partnering with our borough to further the needs and services of the residents. So happy to report on the success of those long-term things that we've laid the foundation for going back over the course of a couple of years. So, Fredo, thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have any questions by the assembly?

Mr. President, this is Thank you, Mr. President. Um, thank you, Director Lamani, on your report. And listening to the part of, um, the surplus, do you have a figure on that dollar amount?

Through the chair, Madam Assemblymember Keneviak, it's very hard to determine what that surplus is going to look like because as part of those accruals, we have to look at the pension obligation and the reports that we get from the state of Alaska and the actual report, and those can swing heavily. We also have a new GASB pronouncement that we have to adopt in the current fiscal year, meaning for '26. That's going to have some financial impact. So at this point, I don't want to mislead the assembly to indicate what that dollar is going to be, but it's going to be, I'd say, between $30 to $50 million. If I'm looking at based on the current general fund expense by departments, we still have, even after the encumbrances of approximately $64.6 million, we still have approximately $133.8 million that's unspent.

And so recognizing that June tends to be a heavy month That's where we get a lot of the year-end orders amongst the year-end adjustments. I anticipate that we're going to have a very strong rollover of fund balance for the general fund.

You know, that helps. Anyone, anybody else, do you have any follow-up? Yes, thank you. Um, I look forward to, you know, after all the all your year-end— not year-end, June 30 closeout, and then also what's left. I'm looking forward to— yes, the borough been very prudent in making sure we stay within budget, but yet, you know, that surplus, um, that's, that's pretty good on that, on, um, the financial part.

My, my, um, question, other question is, um, what I asked, I don't know, maybe a couple months ago, or maybe in our June, our June, um, Budget. If, if you recall, um, Director Lamani, um, I did ask about the mayor's salary, and I know they were going to look into it. Is that still in the process, or— I don't know if this is the right department, but, um, I failed to ask that, um, Um, the last time, but I just want to follow up. Thank you. You know, Assemblywoman Kinebel.

Thank you, Mr. President. Madam Assemblymember Kinebel, actually, I do recall those conversations that took place. We do have the information available. I'm going to be working with the clerk's office to request for a Budget Committee meeting, uh, so that way we can go and analyze through some of the findings, or perhaps the data that we have, to perhaps provide some information relative to that particular request. So we're going to be working over the course of the next few weeks to try and schedule a meeting, potentially for August, and we'll be ready to present that data to the committee.

And then we can certainly, from our viewpoint, from the financial standpoint and looking at across the board, we can certainly make a recommendation to the committee. But ultimately, that responsibility lies to the assembly in terms of setting the compensation for the mayor. Does that help? Does anyone Yes, and I, and I'm glad that you guys are compiling all that information because, um, looking at the volume of employees that, um, the North Slope holds and all the services that the borough provides, and to, um to see the millions of dollars that pass through the borough versus other big organizations that has, you know, I don't, it would be interesting to see the different regions, what they pay their, whether it's a CFO, the mayor, the president, whatever, but the— our borough is so wide and so vast, providing services all over the North Slope and with all our employees. It'll be interesting to see the salary difference, and I really believe that They always say the borough is so blessed, but yet, you know, we have a mayor or even the previous mayors that's been sitting in there.

I don't know when was the last pay increase, so I just wanted to bring, bring that question back up, and I'm glad you will get that addressed to the assembly. Thank you.

I believe there's a big difference between private and government, and I'm trying to recall the last salary study that the board had done several years back. Maybe you can follow up with that too. Certainly, Mr. President. Just to provide some context, one of the things that we always have to do is, is tell the story of the borough. In front of the financial markets, uh, in just about anything that we do.

We're so unique, we're so dynamic, having to cover 95,000 square miles for an array of different services that we have to provide across the board, having an excess of, you know, 1,200 to 1,300 full-time employees, unlike any other municipal or state government. Having different agencies or perhaps departments within the borough that are so diverse to where even, for instance, at the state level, you have different corporations that are segmented to administer or provide services on a particular area. And we've seen, even though they're public entities, they're paying substantially well, or perhaps substantially higher than what the salary of the borough mayor is. And so it'll be interesting for the assembly to, to see. I think that it's going to be an eye-opening to understand that even for the public entities, for the nonprofits, as to how much their executives are getting paid and also having bonuses, incentive comps, among other attributes, being able to invest or defer comp.

Whereas you look at the mayor's compensation, there's, you know, no leave accrual, among other things as well. And so we'll certainly be ready to present on that data and go from there.

Reno, does that help?

Eva?

Yes, it does. Thank you. Thank you, Reno. Do we have any other questions for the finance on the monthly finance report?

Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Mayor and Director Lamani, for the monthly financial report. Um, looking at the chart on some of the other slides of the permanent fund, is this a record high of the permanent fund?

Through the chair, yes, it is. It's the highest that we've seeing the permanent fund at an all-time at $1.42 billion. Thank you for that. I think it's very important. You know, when I read it yesterday or even just this morning, it brought back memories of past assembly members that are no longer here talking about the permanent funds for a rainy day.

And to look back, even at the chart, it goes back to 2000. So in the last 26 years, You know, it's close to triple the, the amount and more so growing in the last 2, 3 years, really. So I just wanted to highlight that and, and say thank you to the finance department, the mayor's administration, um, on taking— making this a priority, uh, to grow the permanent fund. You know, when we're having a $46 million growth in one month It's pretty amazing to watch and see. So thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly, listening audience. Senator Bernal, for the line of comments, I think it— a couple of things, right? Not only treating it as an active investment fund versus a passive one, meaning between my office and the Finance Department and the Investment Committee of the Assembly actively engaging and directing and following up. I, I wanted to chime in because I just gave authorization to Director Lamonti to invest $7 million about half a minute, half an hour ago in the middle of another report that was being read across the record. And so it's that attention to the responsibility to actively manage the permanent fund that's only going to result in the yields that we see are above the traditional 6% that we were used to seeing when I was on the assembly.

And so the time you as assembly members take to really understand the municipal code changes that we bring before the body is real important so that we clarify that we're all in the same boat when it comes to managing this permanent fund. And the other thing that I'll say is that 2.5 years ago, as we began to put together the first budget that I have the opportunity to be a part of on the administration side, we anticipated a 4% draw from the permanent fund. And I believe then, and I think the evidence shows now, that there is such a thing as a sustainable draw on the permanent fund that allows for year-over-year growth while still being able to pull from it as a rainy day fund, maybe treating it as a miniking day fund versus a rainy day fund. And so healthy debate and healthy budget policy around those things, but with, with active day-to-day follow-up and management, we can maximize the opportunities for the borough and the residents. So that's the fruit of that.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, Mr. President, and just to echo, um, Mr. Mayor and Assemblyperson Brunell with respect to the permanent fund, um, been around to see where this fund was originally, um, just slightly under $500 million. And that was not too far, too long ago. That was less than 10 years ago.

Uh, and it's because some of the initiatives that the administration, the assembly, uh, has contemplated that has warranted us to be able to see 3x growth in the permanent fund. One thing we know about investments is they're cyclical. Meaning at times I'll make money, at times they'll lose money, but ultimately you want to be able to see that long-term trajectory of growth. Um, and so we've been able to establish some of those policies within the municipal code that has enabled us to be able to meet the operational needs of the borough, the capital needs, but also preserving some of the long-term outlook of the finances. Strong believer that once we hit $1 billion, uh, $2 billion is going to come in, in no time, and before you know it, we're going to be at $3 billion.

A lot of the initiatives that we have before us in the short term, it's really going to create a financial dynamic for the borough to be able to grow some of the long-term financial resources. So, glad to be spearheading some of those things. Working with the mayor, working with the investment committee, and working with the assembly to put in those things into reality. So thank you. You know, do we have any other questions on the monthly financial report?

But good job, something more to add, Mr. Mayor? Yeah, thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly. I don't think I could move on from the subject without saying it, but the budget discipline that was undertaken in fiscal years 2017-18 to 2022-2023 was critical to the growth of the permanent fund, where we actually saw investment under Terry's leadership to grow the corpus of the fund.

That, that's, that helped with a lot with the foundation of where it is today, in addition to the changes that we've made in the last 2.5 years in how we manage it. And so it's really important to look at something like the permanent fund from a 30,000-foot view, but also a decade-long test on the policies that we push down on it. And so Like Director Mollie Limani saying, we see a major increase. I believe when I took office, we were somewhere around $900 million. But don't, don't start a va'a la'ing just yet.

You got to watch it. It's just like when you initially strike a well, you don't start celebrating yet. Job's not done. And so these things are ever evolving. And we're just hopeful that when the mayor and the assembly in 10 years look back on the policy that we've implemented, that they're, they're following.

So, freedom could be billions and billions. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's been moved, it's been seconded from the monthly financial report. Do we have any other questions, any further discussions? Call for question?

It's nothing. Call for all those in favor of the adoption and approval of the monthly financial report for ending May 31st, 2026. Do so by saying aye.

Aye. Those opposed say nay. Hearing none, the monthly financial report has been approved. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the consideration, deliberation, and acceptance. Moving on, on our agenda, we have item 7, community/assembly comments and audience participation.

An individual with a concern may go to the teleconference center in their community. Be respectful. No obscene or vulgar language, threats or language that may defame the character or reputation of another person. No person may— that may— no, no language that may incite violence. No fraudulent comments.

Please note that the North Slope Borough will refrain from making public comments on matters under ongoing investigation. Or pending litigation. Please state your name for the record, and each participant will have a 3-minute limit unless an exception is granted. So with that, we'll start off with the city of Anaktuvuk Pass. Do we have any concerns coming from the gates of the Arctic?

Hi, good afternoon. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor. Here in the office of the teleconference center is myself, Susan Mori, Lawrence Burrus with the teleconference center, and we have two interns here, Kaylee McKenna and Ashley Panik. They've been sitting here listening And at this time, I really want to commend the engagement efforts by our mayor with the youth all across the Slope. I have to mention the student summer hire and internships.

This is a real impactful program, preparing our youth to gather experience in the working fields within our communities and running operations within everywhere. At this time we have 17 youth that are employed at here in AKP and they're placed within the borough departments, local entities. It's going really well, but I just wanted to mention that and thank you very much. The students, the parents, the guardians, they're really grateful. It's definitely a success.

There's no one here from the village with any concerns. Thank you.

Good afternoon, Susan and Larry. Good afternoon to all of the Anuktuugmut.

Next, City of Atkasuk. Do we have any concerns from Tikaralook? Atkassupia. Good afternoon, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor. Just myself, Jenny Akapi, and Della Sullivan.

No comments or concerns at this time. Thank you. Adigaa. Good afternoon, Jenny and Della. Good afternoon to everyone there in Atkassuk.

Next, City of Cocteau Vic. We have any concerns from Barter Island?

Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, members of the assembly. It's just me here today, Cynthia Adams, and we don't have anyone here for comments or concerns.

Cynthia, and good afternoon to everyone in Cocteau Vic.

City of Nooksack, do we have any concerns coming from Kupikmud?

Good afternoon, Nooksack. Um, with me there is Mary Cabinboy with the mayor's office and, uh, on-the-job training youth. There is no concerns.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Olivia. And we continue to keep the families in Nuxet in prayer. Good afternoon to you all. Did you have something to add, Mr. Mayor? Mr. President, and to the committee, thank you to you.

As we have had to deal with different incidents over the last couple of years, we really depend on the incident command structure and the leadership boots on the ground. I know Fire Chief was critical along with the rest of the Volunteers in the community, same applies to every incident that we respond to in each of the communities. The local leadership is the most critical and important, and it's our job outside of that community that's dealing with the incident to make sure that support is provided. And so thank you goes to each of you there, too. Thank you.

You know, Mr. Mayor, moving on, City of Point Hope. Do we have any concerns from Tiksiak?

Good afternoon from Tiksiak. Good afternoon, everyone. This is Kristi. Popsi Kenneback is here. We're in Mayor's office, and we don't have any concerns today.

Good afternoon. Tiksiak on mute.

Native Village of Point Lay. We have anybody here in Kali had any concerns?

Step right up.

Yeah, come on over to the mic. Your daughter might want to join you. I chose Junior.

If you can state your name for the record.

William Tracy Jr. for the record. Mr. President, Assembly, welcome. Mayor and staff, good to see you here.

Um, so don't worry about my time frame, I'm going off of memory, so it's going to be a little off maybe. Um, in '93-'94, we had 800 block put in and houses went up. Soon after, we had the snow fence put in from the south end of town to the north end of town. And in 2012, 2013, 900 block was put up, houses were put up. Mm-hmm.

And that road is our narrowest road in town.

If you go to the houses there, you'll see that they don't have the traditional gravel driveways put in. They have a wooden platform put in that stretches from the house to the road. And during the summertime, it seems to work fine for the families that live there. They park their four-wheelers on there, kids have their toys off the road, they're on the the platform there. And but during the winter, this road drifts up really bad.

Those platforms get covered with snow and they seem to be useless to the owners. They park their four-wheelers and snow machines on the road, which gets in the way of Public Works clearing snow. So we have a really tight road access. There's no room for two trucks to pass each other on this road— water truck, sewage truck, the bus, emergency crews. We have to make way for each other and wait.

So I've got two concerns here. I'd like to see that road get upgraded whenever we get some gravel to make that road wider and to have the snow fence extended beyond 900 to help that road with the snow drifts. So two concerns there.

And that's it.

Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly, Mr. Tracy, for bringing the concerns to the assembly meeting. I was made aware of the details of this a little more complex concern yesterday, and since then I've asked, um, Director Adams to look into the area-wide snow fence code, uh, and, and upon looking into it, there is some area-wide snow fence money for a different community. What we're going to do is circle back to all funding sources available to look at what it would take to design the extension of the 900 block snow fence from 800. So that's action item 1 that we'll follow up on.

Action item 2 is I'm working with Director Danner across all communities for any opportunities for gravel sourcing. What we're hoping is that part of the discussion with the Kully Corporation is that there may be opportunity for essentially what we did the last time, which was a number of years ago, scraping together whatever gravel that was stored on Kully Corp land over the years. And so something that we're going to be looking into as far as gravel sourcing and then widening the road as a separate project from the snow fence extension. So thank you for bringing it up.

Good enough, Mr. Mayor.

Do we have any other questions from here in Cully?

Good evening. Good afternoon. Um, just another question. State your name for the record. Carol Lobato, for the record.

The spoils that they dig up from the water breaks or sewers, are we able to— I know when my husband was supervisor back then, he was told to turn, keep turning the spoils to have the rain and snow wash out all the—. To cleanse it. Um, is UIC able to put like some of that spoils into the hole and then pour 3 to 4 feet above, finish it off with clean gravel so we're able to reuse the spoils and not having to use up the good gravel? Because a lot of the houses here really need gravel. Their pilings are coming up.

Our roads, they need to be widened.

The runway, the airport road is—. It used to be at least 3 feet high above the nuna. Now it's level with the nuna, and that, it causes bad snowdrifts. And we—. And it causes Public Works hard time to go out to the dumps.

Um, and so our honey buckets, our trash in the wintertime, it piles up. And Public Works does their best to keep up with clearing the snow, keeping the roads open. And then he had to catch up on the trash and honey buckets. And then by the time they're just about caught up, here comes another storm and they have to keep clearing roads, keep clearing roads.

Green up. Mayor, green up. Mr. President, members of the assembly, listening audience, for sharing your concern. I'll follow up with Director Danner and CIP underground crew to talk a little bit about the details regarding the spoils. I know our in-house engineer, Mr. Travis Holmes, is going to have an opinion on reusing spoils for backfill to try not to use as much of the new gravel for backfill.

So we'll have a follow-up discussion on, on what the best practice moving forward is going to be for that. And then I think those things tie into everything else that you, you discussed.

I know we've been brainstorming some ideas as far as maybe increasing support here in Kali along with other communities when the peak seasons come around for snow removal, etc. And we found that one of the bigger challenges is the housing of the rovers to come and do that. And so a couple of things that we're working on as part of the replacement fire department project, we're asking the contractor to provide us with estimates to leave their housing units that they would bring for the contractors to build the fire department so that we could then use them for Public Works roving operators or any other roving equipment contractors or employees. In addition to, depending on if that works out good, we have an employee training program in Prudhoe Bay that is building some small living quarters through the housing department. And if the contractor for the Point Lay Fire Department can't leave their housing behind, we'll use the Prudhoe Bay training development to build housing units to tack on to the man camp that's here so that we can have that more continual support for folks that we have to rove in for support.

So we'll follow up on the spoils. And I just wanted to kind of unpack all the details around the being able to fly in roving mechanics, operators, anybody. To do anything here in the community. In addition to those things on housing rovers, we have a housing house that is being remodeled and a public works house that is being remodeled so that we can accommodate some ideas we have with public works. So I hope that helps.

Green up, Mr. Mayor. Hope that answers your question. All right. Do we have any other concerns, questions? I'm hearing Kali.

Mr. President, Mayor, Assemblywoman. Thank you. I'd like to thank you to the mayor, president, my assembly member, board members coming out to Point Lay and serving our community with great food company activities. Um, I was just informed that our gas station is pumping out water straight into people's machines. Is— are we gonna have our, uh, tank cleaned out, and how often is that done?

And thank you to Bill Jr. for bringing up the fence for the 900 block. And I just suggest that there be two snow fences because the 900 block is on top of the hill and it's different dynamics there.

Um, and just please wish our community, uh, good harvest, safe harvest for our beluga. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly, listening audience, Assemblywoman Oftengard for the line of questioning. First one on the fuel, the fellow that was sitting next to Brother France there with suit and tie took off and ran.

I imagine he's responding. He's a deputy director of public works that's in charge of fuel power generation. So I imagine he's taking care of that issue right now. So we'll see what the result of that is. Public Works, either Wes or Director Danner, if you can come and speak to your tank cleaning schedule and tank inspection schedule.

And then I guess just to explain a little bit about my thought process on the catering, obviously happy to bring ice services here. And then just for the listening audience to understand how it all works out, the way I think about it is that if we anticipate a kiviap as a Healthy Communities initiative every 2 years, what are we doing in the off years, uh, as far as that Healthy Communities initiative. Um, for me, uh, first, first year in, obviously we did our, uh, rounds with bringing all the leadership from the departments to every community for more than just a day, uh, in 2024. Uh, then we had Kiviyup in 2025, and here we are in 2026 making the rounds again. Um, And what we saw as an opportunity is, for your memory, we have a multimillion-dollar, multiyear contract with ICE Services in Prudhoe Bay.

And so we leverage that opportunity that they want— they want to do the work for the borough so that they have a cost-sharing and profit-sharing contract. And so they're interested in making sure they work with the borough successfully as part of just normal discussion, the idea came up on, on getting ICE services to all of the communities except for Prudhoe and Noakes Head, which they frequently service already. And so that's how we ended up going down this, this path of bringing one of our longstanding contractors in the Prudhoe Bay area out to the other communities. Multiple opportunities that overlap with that. For example, the water wastewater treatment facilities that we have in each of our communities are a level lower.

Than the wastewater water treatment facility we run in Prudhoe Bay. And so when we talk about the cross-training opportunity for our local wastewater water sewer operators, um, I Services is kind of the cream of the crop when it comes to water, uh, state DEC certified water service operators. And so, um, wanted to provide a little bit of context to how we ended up, um, where we're at with, with these things, uh, and You know, at the end of the day, I think our communities appreciate the change in the events once in a while. And I know from the borough's perspective and our staff, especially the ones that want to help the borough but don't live in Onsloped, and so they come to work for us off slope, they want to see the projects that they're working on directly, and we want to make sure that that happened. So thank you for that.

Uh, Wes, if you can walk through the tank inspection and upgrade schedule.

Uh, thank you. Wesley Henley, Acting Division Manager of Fuels and Natural Gas, for the record. Sorry, um, so we have received reports that there was water in the, in the gasoline tank. We collected samples of the fuel in that tank and we determined there was no water present. We also perform internal tank inspections.

We perform internal tank inspections every 5 years on all of our tanks, including that gasoline tank. I'm not sure at this time when the next inspection for that tank is due, but I can look into that and get back to you.

Thank you. Hope that helps alleviate that concern. We used to have that same concern in Barrow too, and all of our pumps had, uh, Go-No-Go filters, and I'm hoping you guys use the same Go-No-Go filters. Do you guys use the Go-No-Go filters? We do, we do have water separators.

Yes, water separators. But so you don't— so the Go-No-Go filters, they don't let any water go through them. So I don't know on the specifics, I'd have to look into that, the Go-No-Go filters, for the double check. Yes, sir. They're a little spendy, but they're worth it..

And when there's a claim that you're selling water, you can dispute that better. Go/no-go filters. Any other question? Did you— does that help, Celia? Yes, thank you.

Yeah, I did the follow-up for you. They're going to put go/no-go filters. Thank you. Do we have any other questions or concerns here in Kali?

Moving on, City of Wainwright. Do we have any concerns from—. Good afternoon from Wainwright. Administration teleconference me. It's really, uh, Waldo Kippy from the mayor's office.

Surely Meredith Brooksford, IHL-CME, there is— we have no concerns with our phenol. Adiá. Good afternoon, Verna. Good to hear you, and good afternoon to everyone there in Ulurna.

Moving on to Deadhorse, do we have any concerns from Sawanaktooq?

Good afternoon, everybody. Sylvana here. Harry Akin here. Nobody else here with me. We have no questions, no concerns.

Good to hear you. Good afternoon to everyone there in Deadhorse.

Audience participation.

Do we have anybody from Utqaluvik with any concerns? Mr. President, we do have—. We do have a lady in the audience that wants to present.

Yeah, they can come to the mic and state their name for the record.

Can you hear me?

Yes. Good afternoon.

If you can state your name for the record.

Got cut off. Okay, we can. All right, can you hear me now? Yep, yep, we can hear you now. Good evening, Mayor and Assemblyman.

My name is Edith Sibulu. I work for North Labor Health Department Senior Program, and I've been there for a number of years. I have a concern. We have village hires and HR recruiting. If it would be possible to have the eligibility age for driving, eligibility for drivers in the villages, because it's very crucial to hire, hire the eligible age of 21, and we just have too many fall-offs.

And I would like to ask if you guys can change the age to 18 because we have new students, new hires, new college graduates, or students that are looking for jobs, and it's very hard to cover transportation in villages. So I'd like to ask if you guys can change the eligibility age to 18 instead of 21 and the CBC background for those and to waive what you can waive because we need coverage in the villages. Um, it's hard to fill in all the village, uh, requests when we have a higher number of temporaries and when we could have permanent staff that can get the beneficial benefits from employing on the job. I just wanted to bring that up. And my other concern is my own concern.

It's a HR thing. It's a grievance I submitted in March 2026, and it was sitting over there at HR for a couple months. Which the director or higher up didn't know which way to— which avenue to go to submit my grievance. And up to today, I haven't heard anything. So I'd like to ask that the investigation or a status of where I'm at with my grievance That's my complaint.

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly, listening audience. Edith, for sharing your concerns on the driver eligibility and the background waivers, we'll have to have a follow-up with the department staff. I know specific to Health Department, there are safety-sensitive background job jobs that require the background checks. In addition to if we are complying with SARF or SCARF, I forget the acronym. If we're complying with federal or state health-related requirements, then they require background checks and we can't waive those things.

But we'll look into the waivers for background checks separately from the driver eligibility. I know that Director Evans with the Department of Administration just updated me that we recently finalized the negotiations for both physical property insurance and then liability insurance with our carrier. And so we'll run that up the ladder to see what kind of effect that would have if we were to either have a blanket waiver for driver eligibility or if we were to run individual waivers for certain jobs, uh, to be able to be waived down to that 18-year-old versus the 21-year-old. So we'll follow up with that. In addition to that, um, um, let me include one thing in addition.

Well, we have, um, some of our Village drivers that are in facilities some that are in the clinic. So I think those are the ones that should be overlooked with the clinic and those that are in a different borough office. So this is why I brought this concern.

Thank you, Mr. President. Queen Edith, thank you for clarifying that. We'll follow up the same based on that specificity. And then in regards to the HR complaint, the grievance that was filed, I'll follow up with the human resources director and the health director. Contrary to popular belief, a HR complaint can be discussed in open meeting if the borough and the employee are willing to waive their confidentiality, but typically we revert to keeping HR and personnel matters confident.

But I will follow up with the appropriate directors to find out if they've followed up with you and if they plan to follow up with you. If they haven't, doesn't sound like they have. So thank you. All right. I think all the grievances should be followed, followed up immediately.

I mean, we're I'm wondering where I'm at, you know. I'm not the only one, but there might be others. But there should be an update with all the individuals that turned in grievances, so in the future, update the individuals.

All right, Queen of—. We will follow up. I know that HR frequently updates me on follow-ups with folks that do file grievances, and I have not heard of this one yet, so that probably tells me that they have not followed up. So I will follow up with them. Thank you for bringing it up.

All right, Mayor, do we have— do we have any other questions or concerns? Ottawa, Calgary.

Nobody present, Mr. President. Any audience participation?

Hearing none. Free and open everyone. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Move on on our agenda, but it's actually 4:40 right now.

We can go till 5. Okay, let's move on to our— on our agenda.

Mr. President, uh, Assemblyman Bernal. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, is this as an appearance request? Oh, okay, never mind.

Clerk's clarified this. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President.

So there's been a change in the weather for the flight that's trying to get out tonight. They'll be landing at 6:00 instead of 7:30. So maybe to take advantage of everything, if we— is it possible to go until 6:00 with the community events that are happening and then we can reconvene after the rest of the assembly lands back in Barrow tonight.

Mr. President, Madam Vice President. Yeah. Start the community feed now? No, I'd rather start the community feed at 6:00. We can go and cover as much business as possible.

And then since I won't be available to answer any questions on resolutions Director Evans will accompany the assembly back to Barrow and conclude the meeting once you land there, if that works. Yep. Okay, we'll plan accordingly. Okay, we'll move on. Item 8, we have, uh, Mr. President, this is Martin.

Go ahead, Martin. Um, I'm getting ready to get on the plane, so I'll stay on as long as I could. All right, Reno.

Introduction and/or approval of resolutions and ordinances. We have the first one, 8B, Resolution 35-2026, resolution waiving competitive bidding for change order, North Slope Borough, contract number 2023-107, with BES Inc., DBA Boreal Environmental Services, for the continuation of the NPRA Air quality study. Mayor, thank you, Mr. President. To answer any questions, Director Ellinghoff will be available. Recognizing that Assemblyman Brower pulled it, I'll go right into the wheres.

The North Slope Borough Health Department was awarded National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Grant 19 and PRA-02 to collect baseline data on air quality in areas concurrently not developed by the oil and gas industry. Whereas in April 2024, the Borough Health Department awarded Borough Contract Number 2023-01 107 in accordance with North Slope Borough Municipal Code 2.36.070 to BES Inc., doing business as Boreal Environmental Services, to conduct an area-wide air quality study in Anaktuvuk Pass, Atuksook North, Situtkayuvik, and Wainwright, and whereas BES continued conducting the study by sampling air quality in 5 NPR impacted communities over a 3-year period, and whereas the cost to continue the project through June 2027 will increase the contract amount by $202,460 for a total amount of $1.2 million., uh, $1,210,845 and exceed the mayor's authority to sign. And whereas the Borough Health Department has awarded continuation for the area-wide quality project through the NPRA grant number 26-NPRA-06 in the amount of $202,000. And whereas all the funds awarded through this change order in the original contract remain grant funded. And whereas BES will complete data collection, finalize the health impact literature and peer review, maintain the website, that publishes the air quality index data and communicate with the communities on study results.

And whereas the Northumberland Municipal Code 2.36.180 subsection A, subsection 1, subsection D, and subsections A2 permit a waiver of competitive bidding for procurement of professional services in excess of $750,000 upon approval of the amount by assembly resolution. Now therefore be it resolved, the Northumberland Borough Assembly authorizes me to negotiate and execute a change order to the North Slope Borough contract 2023-107 with BES DBA Boreal Environmental Services for the continuation of the area-wide air quality study in an amount not to exceed $202,000 for your consideration. Who's me? The mayor. Mayor, you've heard the reading of resolution serial number 35-2026.

What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt resolution 35-2026. Do I hear a second? Second, you had pulled this, or Frederick had pulled this. Sorry.

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for reading that into the record. I wanted to pull this resolution. I know in, uh, recent meeting or past meetings I had talked about air quality monitoring in our NPR villages or other villages across the slope as the industry moves westward. And I just thought, here in this resolution, read for the public to hear that, um, the air quality monitoring or studies will be completed in those villages.

Um, without getting it pulled, it would have just been another approval without the reading and unaware of the activities that the North Slope Borough would be doing. So that's, uh, the only reason why I pulled this resolution, just so it could be read, that people could understand that this is going to be conducted within the next few years. Thank you. Thank you, Assemblyman Brower. And, um, I guess it's also good to note that other entities have installed air quality monitoring stations also on demand over the years, whether it's state, industry, private corporations.

And so with that, Mr. Mayor, thank you for the discussion. And I believe I concur with some members making sure that the information is available to the listening audience. Please, Mr. President.

Thank you. Mr. President, thank you, Fred, for having this pulled. After the study is done, will there be a workshop to explain the findings in said villages?

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Assembly, listening audience. Lumen Brunel for the line of questioning. Between the planning department and the health department, they will have the results of the monitoring made available to the communities. And if a specific community requests, which we will ask if they would like a formal community workshop or community meeting to update them. Same goes with the borough assembly.

If they would like more detailed workshop presentation, take an hour to go through the findings, the contractor is available to provide that update to the assembly. Mr. Mayor, so when they install these air monitoring devices, how do they do it? Do they go out there with a helicopter? What's the physical— how do they actually go out and install these things? And I ask that because we've had that request over the years, and the issue of flights, local flights, getting too many in the area becomes an issue.

So the demand is there, the request is there for more and more air monitoring stations, and yet it requires more flights over the whole area. So how are they installed? So these ones are in the community. Sorry, this is when I have to— for the record, thank you for the question. So these ones are directly inside of the community.

There are 4 different locations, 3 outdoor and then 1 indoor. So they just go there and drill them on the buildings.

So these are the ones in the community itself. Yeah. Okay, so these are separate from the other ones that are set in different locations between the community and industry sites? Yeah, these ones are located directly inside of the community. So the air quality monitoring also monitors dust, I would imagine?

Probably. I don't think we've seen anything specifically on dust on the data that we've collected so far. I could double-check, um, Because I think that's going to be very important. Some people's health really reacts to dust in the air, and if we're monitoring something in the air, right, we got to be at least monitoring the dust. I can double-check on that if that's something that we're monitoring.

Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any other questions, discussions on this resolution? It's been moved and seconded. Mr. President.

Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Director Heppa, on the monitoring. Um, are these going to be mounted on borough buildings? Are they locally driven as to locations? Um, because you bring up a good point about dust. You know, some roads are busy, some roads aren't.

I mean, we see it here in Barrow. I don't know how it is in all the villages, but just Understanding that it, you know, we may come to find out some villages are worse than the industry villages. So it'd be interesting to hear where these are being mounted and who's making that decision as to where they are. We know why. That might be a good thing if we did it across the slope.

Director Hepa.

Thank you, Assemblyman Bernal, for the question. So currently in Atuktuq Pass, the sensors are at the Public Works washateria, the museum, the health clinic. Those are the three that are outside and then one inside of the school. All of our villages have one sensor inside of all of our schools. For the Atuktuq, there is one outside of the O&M shop.

The fire station and public works office/shop for Nooksit adjacent to Conoco, North Slope Borough Senior Home, research or search and rescue building, Nooksit itinerant house, and I believe that is the public works one. And then inside the school again in Utqarvik, we have the wellness center, Hobson Middle School, wildlife, and then Ipalik Elementary School inside. For Wainwright, we have the health clinic, the nurse labor itinerant housing, the tribal office, and then inside of the school again. Um, if there's any suggestions on where we could place these inside of your guys' communities, we're more than welcome to taking those. Green.

I hope that helps. Do you have follow-up? No, thank you.

And we're going to follow up with what they actually monitor for besides just air.

Mr. Mayor, this is Miriam.

Miriam, go ahead.

Miriam Valenzuela, for the record, Deputy Director for the Health Department. I just wanted to clarify, uh, on the sampling. It does collect— so they—. We have been monitoring for the last 3 years in those locations that Director Hep had specified. It is monitoring air pollutants, so NO2, SO2, CO2, oxygen, and particulate matters.

I don't know the size of dust pollutants, but it does measure for PM2.5, so very small particulate matter. And it also has, um, the contractor BES does do sampling for hazardous air pollutants such as benzene. To answer that question, that answers a lot. And where are the reports for the— at least the assembly and the public? Mr. Mayor.

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly. Sounds like we'll schedule a workshop. The reports are made available online and we can distribute the website to the assemblymen and women appropriately. Queen. Thank you.

Any further discussion on the resolution?

It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Any further discussion? Call for questions. Questions have been called for.

All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 35-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk.

Trina Paul. Aye. Martin— or Abhayak Bernal.

Aye. Prabhakar Patkar. Aye. Robin Kalap. Aye.

Celia Atungara. Aye. Michael Donovan.

Aye. Martin Edwardsen.

Aye. Frederick Brower. Aye. Eva Kinevac.

Aye. Stanley Brower.

Aye. Thomas Naprajak Jr. Aye.

11 Yeses, Mr. President.

Madam Clerk, Mr. Mayor, Resolution Serial Number 35-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Thank you for the consideration, deliberation, and adoption. Next item on our agenda is 8C, Resolution 36-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to the North Slope Bore contract number 2023-070 with Eskimo Zinc. For comprehensive plan updates, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President.

Director Ulliman will be able to walk us through any questions and explain anything. Since you read the title, I'll go into the whereas. Pursuant to the North Slope Borough Municipal Code 2.12.160 through 170, the North Slope Borough, through its Department of Planning and Community Services, is responsible for the development of the North Slope Village comprehensive plans as well as the borough area-wide comprehensive plan. For presentation to the borough Planning Commission under the North Shore Borough Assembly, whereas Eskimo Zinc was awarded through an NPRA grant the amount of $806,250 after a competitive bid process pursuant to North Shore Borough Municipal Code 2.36.070, whereas the change in scope for the contract were— the changes in scope for the contract were approved up to $976,636 pursuant to Assembly Resolution No. 29-2023 On June 7, 2023, whereas an additional scope has been requested to— in order to conduct the quality improvement team to monitor the development of the comprehensive plan updates that were not negotiated in the initial agreement, and whereas the additional scope is anticipated to increase the contract amount by $14,627, thus increasing the total contract amount to $991,263 and exceeding the mayor's authority to sign, and whereas it is in the best interest of the the borough to waive competitive bidding for this work, as Eskimo Zinc is familiar with the project requirements, has performed the work professionally and responsibly, and can provide additional services to prevent delays to the project.

And whereas the Northumberland Municipal Code 2.36.180 subsections and subsections permit a waiver of competitive bidding for procurement of personal services in excess of $750,000 upon approval of the amount by assembly resolution. Now therefore be it resolved that the Northumberland Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute to change order to North Slope Road contract number 2023-070 with Eskimo Zinc for the comprehensive plan updates project in an amount not to exceed $14,627 for your consideration. Heard the reading of resolution serial number 36-2026. What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt.

There's a motion on the floor. Do I hear a second? Second. It's been seconded. Under discussion.

You had pulled this one. Yeah, it was just to make sure that I abstain from this one. Without it, uh, making sure it got pulled, so I can abstain. So thank you, Mr. President. Very good.

Thank you. Any further discussion? Any questions? Mr. President, uh, Assemblyman Donahue, I just want to, uh, state that I am employed by Eskimo Inc. and I'm going to abstain as well. Very good.

Abstain during the vote. Thank you. Any others? I'll do the same. Any other questions besides the conflict of interest and disclosures?

Question. Question has been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 36-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Trina Paul.

Aye. Martin Edwardson.

Aye. Abayag Bernal. Abstain.

Crawford Pakudok. Abstain. Robin Calab. Aye. Celia Atungara.

Aye. Michael Donovan. Abstain. Frederick Brower. Aye.

Eva Kinovac.

Aye. Stanley Brower.

Aye. Thomas Naprak Jr. Thomas Naprak Jr.

No reply. Mr. President, there is 7 yeses.

Thomas don't answer.

Thomas Napierak Jr. Yes. Okay, 8 yeses, Mr. President.

Resolution 36-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the deliberation, discussion, and adoption. Next item on our agenda is 8D.

Resolution 37-2026, a resolution accepting a subaward agreement between the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities for the North Slope Borough Community Winter Access Trail markings. Mr. Mayor, thank you for reading the title into the record. Going to the whereas, the Alaska Department of Transportation Public Facilities are— and the subrecipient North Slope Borough are eligible to carry out the Surface Transportation Block Grant program funded through the Federal Highway Administration pursuant to 23 United States Code Section 133, the DOT as pass-through entity has the authority to issue through the 2024 through 2027 DOT and Public Facilities Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan to subrecipients pursuant to Alaska Statute Section 19.05.040, Subsection 10, and whereas the DOT as the pass-through entity provides resources for subrecipients to construct and/or maintain multi-use trails, ice roads, seasonal roads, and other winter trails in Alaska to improve transportation patient access in rural and remote areas, and whereas the borough as a recipient can enhance the safety of users by purchasing winter trail markers and minimizing risks associated with environmental conditions and terrain by placing the markers along approximately 390 miles of trail between— up to Sequoia and Tel Aviv to the Dalton Highway and on to the Dalton Highway, ensuring that the winter trails are accessible, safe, and sufficiently marked for the community's use, and whereas the borough desires to apply for funds to provide for and administer the following projects under the grant program. Project title: AKDOT and PFCWAT markings. For grant amount of $518,529 and a proposed borough match of $51,471 for a total of $570,000.

Whereas it is in the best interest of the North Slope Borough to apply for and receive funds for the AKDOT and PFCWAT markings project as subrecipient of the federally funded Surface Transportation Block Grant Program, as subrecipient To enhance the safety of users for winter trails between the various communities in the amount of $518,529, with proposed borough matching amount of $51,471.

Now therefore be it resolved, the North Slope Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to execute all documents necessary to receive municipal grant funds in the amount of $518,529 and to operate and maintain the project within the scope of the services or tasks based on the needs of the project. Heard the reading of Resolution Serial Number 37-2026. What's the wish of the assembly?

Move to adopt. There's a motion by Robin Jonah to adopt. Do I hear a second? Seconded by Gina. Under discussion.

Uh, you had pulled this one. Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for reading that into the record. Um, just questioning as to the amount in dollars versus the amount of trail markings in correspondence with the amount of miles. I hope that makes sense, um, on how that's going to be— how that was determined, I guess, and making sure it's going to be a sufficient amount of trail markings.

Thank you, Mr. President and Assembly members. Chassidy Ulliman, Director of Planning and Community Services, for the record. Thank you, Assemblyperson Bernal, for the question. We worked with the DOT on the actual amount needed, and we presume it'll be enough for about 3 years as long as we pick them up as we have over the past few years, as the additional delineator donation was given to us just over 5 years ago. So it should last for a few years, at least to the contract amount right now for the total 3-year NPRA grant award.

I hope that helps. Follow-up, Mr. President. Go ahead. Um, more so the amount of delineators per mile. Is there going to be— was there a study on that in a sense, or the determination of amount of delineators to be set, um, per mile or quarter mile, yards, that kind of study, I guess, or determination as to what this really funds, whether it's, you know, 20,000 delineators or one every mile.

So just trying to figure out how it's going to look on Siwat, knowing that weather gets bad and gets whiteout, and some of the only things that you could see are that that shine back from your headlights to a delineator or the bright orange or bright, you know, bright colors that they are. So that's all.

You know, why? Thank you, Assemblyperson Bernal, for the follow-up question. There was no study done for this. Our contractor stated that they're getting low on delineators. A couple of months ago, we reached out to DOT with our longstanding agreements and relationships with them, and they were able to get us in contact with the appropriate person to where we only had to match less than 10% for the purchase of delineators for at least, like I stated earlier, 3 years.

But should we need more in the future, we can look into potentially another NPRA grant or other types of DOT funding to ensure that the mileage is correct for the safety of our community winter access trail.

You know, I know several years ago when I was involved with Barrow Volunteer Search and Rescue, we did a trail safety trail marking between Barrow, Wainwright, back to Barrow, but a whole different trail, right? So any other questions? Uh, just one more quick follow-up, Mr. President. Um, thank you. And obviously the, uh, Eskimo Inc. has the contract for CWOT, I guess, a legal opinion as to if it's okay for me to vote on this or not.

I think it's up to you. I don't think there's a conflict here. This is a state partnership with the—. Or I don't think we even need legal to answer that one. Come on up, uh, Madam General Counsel.

If you can answer a question and concern, ma'am.

Thank you, Mr. President, members of the assembly, Mr. Mayor, Assemblymember Avaya-Burnell. Thank you for the question.

Um, hi. The threshold is substantial financial interest, so if you have substantial financial interest, that would prohibit you from voting on this matter, then, um, then you would abstain from the voting. But as President Apakatag had mentioned, this is a receipt of grant funding in order to support the CWOT program, so it shouldn't matter. But if you, based on your calculations, if you have substantial financial interests that would prohibit you from voting on this matter, then that would be up to you. Thank you.

Are you benefiting from them, uh, trail markers, Abayek? Thank you for your opinion on the matter. Do we have any other questions? I hope that helps, Abayek. Uh, Mr. President, it does.

Thank you, Director Limon. Director Limon, for the record, and just as a follow-up, our project administrator, Kanawan Roddy, did follow up with me that this is double the amount from we got from DOT 5 years ago, and 5 years ago we got 10,000 delineators from DOT, same type of program. Awesome. They come in handy. They're good safety marking when people are traveling between the villages.

Any other questions? Resolution 37, 2026. Mr. President, I just want to state that I am the sole contractor for the project, and, uh, if there's no issues with me voting, I'll vote. Thanks. Well, you've heard the legal opinion that was just given here, and I don't think there is a conflict.

Any other questions? Any, any other?

Any other questions? Call for question. Question has been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 37-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk.

Thomas Nebojack Jr. Yes.

Stanley Brower.

Yes. Eva Kinevat.

Yes. Frederick Brower. Yes. Michael Donovan. Yes.

Celia Atungarak. Yes. Robin Callap. Yes. Crawford Pakudok.

Yes. Avaya Bernal. Yes. Martin Edwerson.

Martin Edwerson, maybe he's on the plane. Trina Paul. Yes. 10 Yeses, Mr. President. Trina, Resolution 37-2026 has been adopted by the assembly.

Mr. Mayor. Thank you for the discussion and adoption. Moving on, on our agenda, Resolution Serial Number 38-2026, Resolution Waiving Competitive Bidding for a Change Order to North Slope Borough, Contract Number 2022-031 with UIC Municipal Services LLC for the area-wide underground water and sewer upgrades as needed, as requested, CIP numbers 09-155 10-123 and 10-126. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President.

Going into the whereas, the North Slope Borough Capital Improvement Project Management Department is responsible for managing area-wide capital projects for the repair and upgrade of borough capital assets in the most cost-effective and efficient manner practicable. And whereas, contract number 2022-031 with the UIC Municipal Services LLC was negotiated for $450,000 on August 12, 2021. Subsequently upfunded by $22 million to the current contract amount of $22,450,000 through Assembly-approved Resolution Numbers 45-2021, 11-2022, 38-2023, 54-2023, 41-2024, 70-2024, 08-2025, and 88-2025, and 15-2026. And whereas the borough seeks further from the contract by an additional $5 million, increasing the total amount to $32,450,000 to address further upgrades necessary, necessary for proper operation of the area-wide water and sewer infrastructure, including but not limited to potential leaks due to freeze-ups, extended crew deployments due to leaks and freeze-ups, and as well as contingencies. And whereas the winter of 2025 and the winter 2026 seasons have been especially strenuous on the borough's water and sewer assets, and contractors with extended deployments from 2024 December to February 2025.

For the Anaktuvuk Pass village-wide freeze-up and the current Point Lay village-wide freeze-up have been ongoing since late December 2025 to present. Whereas it is in the best interest of the borough and its residents to waive competitive bidding for this work, as UICMS is familiar with the borough systems and has provided reliable and responsible and quality work for the borough. And whereas the North Shore Borough Municipal Code 2.36.180 subsections A1F and A2 to permit a waiver of competitive bidding for contracts exceeding $1 million upon Assembly approval for the procurement of supplies, materials, equipment, or services when there are unforeseen conditions and the time required for competitive bidding will produce delays in an ongoing project, the cost of which will outweigh any potential advantage that might be produced by competitive bidding. Now therefore be it resolved, the North Slope Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute a change order, North Slope Borough contract number 2022-031 with UICMS LLC for the area-wide underground water and sewer upgrades as needed as requested in an amount not to exceed $5 million. CIP project number 09-155, 10-123, 10-126 for your consideration.

And Director Adams is available to answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You've heard the reading of Resolution Serial Number 38-2026. What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt.

There's a motion by Robin Jonah. Do I hear a second? Seconded. Seconded by Celia. Any discussion?

Under discussion. Eva, you had pulled this one. You have the floor, ma'am.

Thank you, Mr. President. Um, for the— for this resolution on the increase for area-wide underground water and sewer upgrades for $5 million, do we have, um, like a cell spreadsheet, um, where the funds are being spent because there are numerous resolutions that come before us, and to see area-wide, area-wide, not just water and sewer, but different public works, the different departments. But can we get a Can we see where the funds are being spent? Whether it's— I know it's different villages that you have listed in here, AKP, Point Lay, you know, I'd just like to see where funds are going, if it's area-wide. Thank you.

Assemblywoman Kinneval, Mr. Mayor, Director Adams. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Mr. President, members of assembly. Assemblywoman Kinneval, we do have a spreadsheet of task orders that we give to the contractor. I can have project staff work on breaking it out by village and the amount that is spent in each village. We should be able to get that to you.

Hope that helps. Even if you have follow-up, you have the floor, ma'am. No, I don't. Thank you. I'm looking forward to that spreadsheet.

Thank you. Any other discussion, questions on the resolution?

Call for questions. Question has been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 38-2026 do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Trina Paul.

Aye. Avaya Bernal. Aye.

Robert Clark. Aye. Celia Atungara. Aye. Michael Donovan.

Aye. Frederick Brower. Aye. Eva Kinovac. Aye.

Stanley Brower. Aye. Thomas Naprap Jr. Aye.

Um, Martin Edwardson is on the plane. 10 Yeses, Mr. President. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Resolution 38-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the consideration and adoption.

We look forward to following up. Moving on, on our Agenda 8F, Resolution 39-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to North Slope Borough, contract number 2026-084, with Tikiaq Federal Services LLC for the Tikiaq School kitchen remodel and upgrades. CIP Project 06-195 and 06-201. Mr. Mayor, thank you. Going right into the whereas, the North Slope Borough, through its Department of Capital Improvement Project Management, negotiated and awarded Contract 2026-084 to Tikia Federal Services LLC under Resolutions Number 86-2025, which authorized up to $2.5 million for the construction of the Tikia School kitchen remodel and upgrades.

And whereas, upon project commitments and ongoing construction, additional necessary work and unforeseen project costs not included in the original scope were discovered, and whereas it has been determined that the existing funding is inadequate to continue with the added scopes of work required to complete the project, and whereas an additional $650,000 has been identified to fund the completion of this essential additional work, thus increasing the total contract amount up to $3,150,000 and exceeding the mayor's authority to sign, and whereas the current condition of the project The project requires these funds to be immediately incorporated to avoid critical construction delays and ensure the successful, timely completion of the school kitchen upgrades. Whereas the existing kitchen facility in Point Hope is facing infrastructure challenges, including aging equipment that strains regulatory compliance, insufficient storage capacity that limits operational throughput, and mechanical vulnerabilities that present a risk to the— its vital secondary function as the community emergency shelter. And whereas it is in the best interest of the borough and its residents to waive— competitive bidding and utilize TFS for this work, as TFS is familiar with the ongoing project and the necessary upgrades and is able to proceed with additional work immediately. Whereas the Northumberland Municipal Code Section 2.36.180 subsections and allow the mayor and the assembly acting through a resolution to waive competitive bidding for supplies, materials, equipment, or services when there are unforeseen conditions and the time required for competitive bidding will produce delays in an ongoing project. The cost of which will outweigh any potential advantage that might be produced by competitive bidding.

Now therefore be it resolved, the Northville Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute a change order to the Northville Borough contract number 2026-084 with Tiki Health Federal Services LLC for the Tiki Health School Kitchen remodel and upgrades project in an amount not to exceed $650,000, CIP project number 06-195 and 06-201, for your consideration. And Director Adams available to answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We've heard the reading of Resolution Serial Number 39-2026. What's the wish of the assembly?

There's a motion by Robin Jonah to adopt. Do I hear a second? Seconded by Celia. Under discussion. Eva, you had pulled this one.

You have the floor, ma'am. Thank you, Mr. President, and, uh, thank you for, uh, the reading of this resolution, and we're looking forward to a new remodel and upgrades on our Yeah, in our school kitchen. So for this, for this resolution, it's just for the kitchen remodel, right? There, uh, and for the equipment that's needed, stoves and grades.

Mr. Mayor, Director Adams. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, members of assembly, Assemblywoman Canavat. That is correct, this is for the kitchen and the equipment in the kitchen. And I will note that during this project we did find some issues with the plumbing and the soffit, and we'll most likely come back for either another change order or more work that needs to happen underneath the building. We're— our main focus is getting the kitchen up to speed before school opens up, and then we'll come back and fix the upgrade of soffit from underneath the building.

So, you know, hope that helps. If you have any follow-up, Eva?

No, I, I just wanted to— I'm just happy that this is getting done because It really needs an update and upgrade. Thank you.

Do we have any other questions or discussion on the motion?

Question. President, I'll call for all those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 39-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Trina Paul, aye. Abhayak Bernal, aye.

Crawford Pakurak, aye. Robin Collette, aye. Celia Adenmara, aye. Michael Donovan, aye. Frederick Brower, aye.

Eva Kinovac, Aye. Stanley Brower. Aye. Thomas Napolet Jr. Aye.

10 Yeses, Mr. President. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Resolution 39-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the discussion and, uh, adoption. We will look to execute and come back for more money when needed.

Thank you. Moving on, on our agenda, 8G, we have Resolution 40-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to North Slope Borough, contract number 2026-011, with UIC Bohut Transport LLC for the Kotovik School contaminated material disposal CIP project number 06-206. Mr. Mayor, going straight into the wheres. The North Slope Borough Assembly approved resolution number 45-2025, waiving competitive bidding and authorizing the mayor to negotiate a contract with UIC Bullhead LLC for the shipping and disposal of contaminated soils from the Kvalek School replacement project in an amount not to exceed $2.2 million. And whereas the North Slope Borough Department of Capital Improvement Project Management awarded contract number 2026-002 -011 to Bowhead in an amount not to exceed $2 million, and whereas the subsequent change order to fulfill additional work scope increased the contract by $313,286 to a total contract amount of $2,313,286, and whereas Bowhead has now completed disposal services and received a final invoice from Waste Management for the disposal of containers consisting of soil that was set aside and finally scaled the total volume of 4.67 tons, and whereas as a result the total cost of the final disposal services exceeds the original approved amount of 20— by $21,985,093 and will need to be paid, and whereas with disposal services under this contract now fully completed, the additional amount plus planned contingency is anticipated to increase the total contract amount by $25,000, thus increasing the total contract amount up to $2,338,000.

$286 And exceeding the mayor's authority to sign, and whereas it is in the best interest of the borough to waive competitive bidding for this work as Bohead has completely completed satisfactory performance under the contract and the final payment of outstanding balances necessary to properly close out the contract, whereas the Northumberland Borough Municipal Code Section 2.36.180 subsections A1F and A2 allow for the mayor and the assembly to waive competitive bidding upon approval by assembly resolution for supplies, materials, equipment, or services when there are unforeseen conditions and the time required for competitive bidding will produce delays in an ongoing project, the cost of which will outweigh any potential advantage that might be produced by competitive bidding. Now therefore be it resolved that the North Slope Borough Assembly authorized the mayor to negotiate and execute a change order to contract number 2026-011 with UIC Bowhead Transport LLC for the— —contaminated material disposal project in an amount not to exceed $25,000 CIP project Number 06-206, open for any consideration and discussion. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You've heard the reading of Resolution 40-2026.

What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt. There's a motion by Assemblyman Kaliakou. I hear a second. Seconded.

Seconded by Assemblywoman Atangaroc. Under discussion. Kona, you had pulled this one. You have the floor, sir. Yeah, I just wanted to, uh, thank you for reading that into the record.

Mr. Mayor, thank you, Mr. President.

Um, I just wanted to get a timeline on when the products are being shipped out of Cocteauvik, and if that's going to interfere with any of the east side whaling as far as Cocteauvik and Nooksack. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Work is already completed.

We're just squaring up final invoices.

That helps, Cornett. That does, thank you. We have any other questions on the resolution, Mr. President? Robin, just want to let you guys know that Koptowicz whaling season is now January 1st to December 31st, so just to keep that in mind. Right on.

Any other questions on Resolution 40-2026?

Question has been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 40-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Trina Paul. Aye.

Abyeek Bernal. Aye. Crawford Patakudok. Aye. Robin Collette.

Aye. Celia Atungara. Aye. Michael Donovan. Aye.

Frederick Brower.

Aye. Eva Kinevac. Aye. Stanley Brower. Aye.

Thomas Naparock Jr. Aye.

10 Yeses, Mr. President. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Resolution 40-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the adoption.

Moving on, on our agenda, we have, uh, 8H, resolution serial number 41-2026, resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to North Slope Borough, contract number 2026-039 with ASRC Builders LLC for the design and construction of the Pointe Le fire station, CIP number 14-116. Mr. Mayor, going into the wheres is on November 5th, 2025, the North Shore Borough bid and awarded design-build contract under Borough contract number 2026-039 to ASRC Builders LLC in an amount not to exceed $535,000 to design and build the new Pointe-Lay fire station. And where is the estimated cost for construction of a personnel camp to support construction of the Pointe-Lay fire station and provide a training area for Pointe-Lay Fire Department personal during construction is $1,097,726, and the estimated cost to complete the design is $769,098, totaling $1,866,824 for required additional funding, making the total contract amount to $2,401,824, which will be included in the project budget and managed within the guaranteed maximum price framework to ensure financial responsibility and accountability. And whereas the North Slope Borough Municipal Code 2.36 18.180 subsections A1D and A2 allow the mayor to waive competitive bidding for the best interest professional services contract in excess of $750,000 upon assembly approval by resolution.

Now therefore be it resolved that the North Slope Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute a contract change order to contract number 2026-039 with ASRC Builders LLC in an amount not to exceed $1,866,824 for the design and construction of the Pointe Lae Fire Station. CIP project number 14-116 for your consideration. Heard the reading of Resolution 41-2026. What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt.

There's a motion by Assemblywoman Atangarup to adopt. Do I hear a second? Second. And seconded by Assemblyman Kalea. Under discussion.

You had pulled this one. Question. Question has been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution 41-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk.

Trina Paul. Aye. Abayag Bernell. Abstain.

Crawford Puckaduck. I serve as chairman of the board of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, and I will abstain.

Robin Collette. Aye. Celia Asimara. Aye. Michael Donovan.

Aye. Frederick Brower.

Aye. Eva Kinevac.

Aye. Stanley Brower. Aye. Thomas Jr.

Uh, I serve as— sorry, but I'm not on the executive, so I don't have no personal gain, so I should be able to vote aye.

Okay, 8 yeses, Mr. President, and 2 abstain.

Resolution 41-2026 has been adopted by the assembly, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for the consideration adoption, and I will let you guys know that this is an atypical contract form, something that we're trying new to expedite design to build through the whole process as it's happening. So something a step further than the framework that we established and put forth in the Wainwright Power Plant. And so, as we look to bring efficiencies to our contracting capabilities, if we know that there's a contractor that's going to get the work done, let's expedite the process so that we can move forward. So you will continue to see change orders as the project schedule progresses.

It is the quicker form to expediting projects at a construction infrastructure. Are you sure? We're going to find out. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Moving on, on our agenda, we have, uh, 8I, Resolution Serial Number 42-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to North Slope Borough Contract Number 2023-054 with Umiak Design LLC for the U.S.

ACE Seawall Project Property Survey, CIP Project Number 07- 2-6-8. Mr. Mayor, according to the—. Where is the North Slope Borough Capital Improvement Project Management Department has been tasked with the Barrow Coastal Erosion Mitigation Project, and whereas the North Slope Borough negotiated award contract number 2023-054 to AMAP Design LLC in the amount of $168,839 to conduct property surveys of the high and low bluff areas acquired for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seawall project, and whereas after receiving notice to proceed, AMAP provided the scope of work for this project in accordance with the USACE non-federal sponsor guide to land acquisition to develop acquisition drawings, identify survey project boundaries, and develop ownership maps. And whereas the borough approved additional funding of $108,720 to provide title reports, appraisals, easements, and reporting along the High Bluff, Bluff area, increasing the contract amount to $277,559 under change order number 1. And whereas the borough approved additional funding of $475,340 under change order number 2 for title search and appraisals from Simmons Hill to Dewline Road necessitated by the property surveys by authority of Resolution #52-2024, increasing the contract amount to $752,899.

And whereas the additional surveys, easements, boundaries, identification of monuments, and record map development required subsequent change order funding increases by $158,600 to a total contract amount of $911,499.

And whereas easements will be will need to be established for the USACEC Wildberry Utilities Electric Co-op utility pole relocation, which will increase the total contract amount by $68,200 to $979,699 and exceed the mayor's authority to sign. And whereas the North Slope Borough Municipal Code 2.36.180 subsections A1D and A2 allow for the mayor to waive competitive bidding of best interest professional services contract in excess of $750,000, Upon assembly approval by resolution, now therefore be it resolved that the North Slope Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute a change order to North Slope Borough contract number 2023-054 with UMAF Design LLC for the United States Army Corps of Engineers seawall project property surveys in the amount not to exceed $68,200. CIP project number 07-268 for your consideration. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You've heard the reading of Resolution 42-2026.

What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt. There's a motion by Robin Jonah. Second. We hear a second.

Seconded by Abayek. Under discussion. Eva, you had pulled this one. You have the floor, ma'am.

Mr. Mr. President, thank you. I'm just reading the resolution on the seawall project and the property surveys. Um, do we have any challenges on homeowners with you know, with the projects or even the seawall itself. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr.

President. Uh, new director of Port Authority, Gordon Brower, informed me during July 4 weekend that he was able to work with the Native Village of Barrow and get all appropriate easements from all the heirs of all the properties co-located near the seawall project. So the answer is no. You know, hope that helps. Do you have any other follow-up?

Uh, no, but that's good to hear because, you know, the seawall is— oh, it's very much needed. Thank you. Any other questions? Mr. Mayor? Thank you, Mr. President.

I will disclose that through borough ordinance, when we do need easements, we pay fair market value, so there will be compensation to the families according to the fair and reasonable fair market value. Thank you. Any other questions on the resolution? Question. Question has been called for.

All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 42-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Trina Paul. Aye. Avayak Bernal.

Aye. Karthik Pakkura. Aye. Robin Kalap. Aye.

Sealy Attenborough. Aye. Michael Donovan. Aye. Fredric Brower.

Aye. Eva Kinevat.

Aye. Stanley Brower. Aye. Thomas Naparack Jr. Thomas Naparak Jr. Thomas Naparak Jr. No answer. 9 Yeses, Mr.

President. Madam Clerk, Resolution 42-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor. Thank you for the consideration and adoption.

Moving on, on our agenda, we have 8J, Resolution 43-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order, North Slope Borough, contract number 2025-143, with ASRC Energy Remediation Solutions LLC for environmental cleanup services in Dead Horse and Kaktovik for fiscal year 2025-2026. 2027. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President. Going right into— Whereas North Slope Borough received a notice regarding past alleged violations of environmental regulations from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, which offered the borough an opportunity for settlement by levy of an agreement to the terms and conditions of compliance order through the provision of a consent decree from the EPA and a compliance order by consent from the DEC.

Whereas in order to meet the borough's environmental cleanup responsibilities and to maintain compliance with the authorities having jurisdiction has been found to be in the best interest of the borough to secure the services of ASRC Energy Remediation Solutions LLC to support the borough's environmental compliance needs. And whereas, in July of 2025, the borough awarded contract number 2025-143 to ASRC in the amount of $10 million for FY25-26 under Resolution November number 07-2025 to provide critical environmental cleanup support in Deadhorse, Kaktovik, which contract was set to expire on June 30, 2026. And whereas in April 2026, resolutions number 21-2026 added $2.2 million in funding for a contract total amount up to $12.2 million with the term ending June 30, 2027. Whereas additional environmental cleanup work in FY 26-27 is required to comply with the CD&COBC, which will include contaminated site cleanup plans for Deadhorse and Kaktovik, with an estimated cost which will increase the contract by $8.8 million to a total amount $21 million and exceed the mayor's signing authority. And whereas the requested funding increase and extension of the contract will ensure that the borough meets compliance measures specific to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Water Act, Prevention, Preparedness and Response Program, and Contaminated Sites Program, as identified and described in the CD&COBC, whereas it is in the best interest of the borough of Saint to sustain these services to meet environmental cleanup objectives without interruption, and whereas the North Slope Urbanist Code 2.

36.180 Subsections A1F allows for the assembly and mayor to make best interest determination to authorize negotiations for supplies, materials, equipment, or services when there are unforeseen conditions and the time required for competitive bidding will produce delays in an ongoing project, the cost of which will outweigh any potential advantage that might be produced by competitive bidding. Whereas ASRC is already familiar with the work required to remain in compliance with CED and COBC and has been performing in such capacity, and whereas ASRC has demonstrated a long-term relationship with the Borough based on loyalty and trust and a commitment providing dependable critical services that the borough may rely upon. Now therefore be it resolved that the Northville Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute a change order, the Northville Borough contract number 2025-143 with ASRC Energy Remediation Services LLC for the environmental cleanup in Dead Horse and Coffey Grove for FY25 through 27 in an amount not to exceed $8.8 million for your consideration.

You heard the reading of Resolution Serial Number 43-2026. What's the wish of the assembly? Moved it up. There's a motion by Robin Donahue, seconded by Celia.

I like you had pulled this one. Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Mayor, for reading that into the record. Call for question. Question hasn't been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 43-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote.

Madam Clerk. Trina Paul. Aye. Abayek Budnow. Abstain.

Crawford Patsodok. I hereby abstain. Robin Collette. Aye. Celia Atungaro.

Aye. Michael Donovan. Aye. Frederick Brower.

Yes.

Eva Kinevac.

Aye. Stanley Brower.

Aye. Thomas N. Jr.

Aye.

8 Yeses and 2 abstain, Mr. President. Madam Clerk, resolution serial number 43-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor. Thank you for the consideration adoption. We look forward to getting to work.

Moving on our, on our agenda, we have 8L, Resolution Serial Number 45-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to North Slope Borough, contract number 2024-089, with Jacobs Project Management Company to maintain compliance with EPA requirements under CWA and RCRA regulations for fiscal year 2025-2027. Mr. Mayor, straight into the whereas. Mr. President, the North Slope Borough received a notice regarding past alleged violations of environmental regulations from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, which offered the borough an opportunity for settlement by levy of an agreement to the terms and conditions of a compliance order through the provision of a consent decree from the EPA and a compliance order by— from the DEC, and whereas on October 30, 2020, contract number 2021-76 was awarded to Jacobs Technology Inc. for 2 fiscal years with an original contract amount of $500,000 or $250,000 annually, and whereas in January 2022, resolution number 02-2022 approved an increase to extend the contract for an additional 3 fiscal years at a rate of $250,000 annually, bringing the total contract amount of $1.25 million with the term ending June 2024. Whereas on December 29, 2023, an internal reorganizational structure at Jacobs Technology Inc. resulted in a novation of contract number 2021-076 to contract number 2024-089 with Jacobs Project Management, and the remaining funds of $152,427.79 was transferred to the new novated contractor. And whereas in November 2024, resolution number 76-2024 added $600,000 in funding, bringing the novated contract amount to $752,427.79.

In May of 2025, Resolution Number 41-2025 added $1 million with the term ending on June 30, 2026, with an additional funding increase of $300,000 under mayor's authority for a contract total of $2,052,427.79 to date. And whereas the borough has utilized Jacobs for nearly 6 years overall to provide essential technical environmental compliance services, the best interest of the borough and all villages. And whereas, in order to meet the borough's environmental cleanup responsibilities and maintain compliance with the authorities having jurisdiction, it has been found to be in the best interest of the borough to secure the services of Jacobs for continued support for the borough's environmental compliance needs. And whereas, the contract is currently in need of a term extension and additional funding amount of $1.2 million to a total contract sum of $3,252,427.

$1,000,079 For additional work in FY 26-27 for CD and COBC compliance, which exceeds the mayor's authority to sign. And whereas the funding increase will ensure that the borough continues to meet compliance measures specific to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Water Act, Prevention, Preparedness, Response Program, and Contaminated Sites Program as identified and prescribed in CD and COBC. And whereas it is the best route to the borough to sustain these services to meet environmental cleanup objectives without interruption. And whereas the Northumberland Municipal Code Section 2.36.180 subsection A allows for the Assembly and the Mayor to make a best interest determination to authorize negotiations for supplies, materials, equipment, or services when there are unforeseen conditions and the time required for competitive bidding will produce delays in an ongoing project and the cost of which will outweigh any potential advantage that might be produced by competitive bidding. And whereas Jacobs has demonstrated a long-term relationship with the borough based on loyalty and trust and, and a commitment to providing dependable critical services that the borough may rely upon.

Now therefore be it resolved that the North Slope Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute a change order, North Slope Borough contract number 2024-089, with Jacobs Project Management Company to maintain compliance with EPA requirements under the CWRA regulations for FY '25 through '27 in an amount not to exceed $1.2 million for your consideration.

We have heard the reading of resolution serial number 45- 2026. What's the wish of the assembly? There's a motion by Celia, and she beat you, Robin. Been seconded by Robin. Uh, under discussion.

Eva, you had pulled this one. You have the floor, ma'am.

Thank you, Mr. President. I feel like I have to hurry up and really try to get my questions out. Boy, that mayor is really cruising on his reading.

But that's, that's good. On this resolution, you know, the violations in the environmental regulations from the borough, I just want to thank Mr. Bruni on this extensive cleanup and this, you know, just following and tracking what needs to get done on the North Slope, you know. This is just part of the cleanup of 3.2 million, and I believe the listening audience need to know, you know, the total fines as well and how the borough really needs to keep our environmental Cleanup at the forefront, and we can't lag. We can't just put this on the side anymore because with all the fines that we had on top of the current cleanup of $3.2 million, it's just— it's a bite us. Us financially a big chunk of our funds.

So I just want to take this time to thank our environmental manager, Mr. Booney. Thank you, Mr. President. You really made him blush. I could— um, thank you for bringing that up, and it's a friendly reminder for all of us all across the slope in every village to really take the responsibility and, and deal with this material the right way in the first place. And Bruni, you have a word to say.

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Assemblyman, Assemblywoman Canaviejo. Thank you so much for your comments.

And yes, it is the right approach. I also think it's important to thank Ali, Tiffany, and all of our environmental compliance technicians who are doing great work as well. We've really established a great foundation for developing our environmental ethic, and thank you so much for your very nice comments. Thank you. Any other discussion on the resolution?

Question? Question has been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution Serial Number 45-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Katrina Paul.

Aye. Abhay Agrawal. Aye. Prabhupada Goudap. Aye.

Robin Collette. Aye. Celia Atungara. Aye. Michael Donovan.

Yes. Frederick Brower.

Aye. Eva Kinnevat.

Aye. Stanley Brower. Aye. Thomas Nebrak Jr. Aye. 10 Yeses, Mr. President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Resolution serial number 45-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the consideration and adoption.

What's that, Mr. President? Considering the staff to support items 11A and B are going to be needed for the community celebration, I would ask that we take those up at this time with the consent of the assembly, which would be the MTFA resolution and the AWC resolution.

You want to do what now? Move over to items 11A and B, since the folks that are presenting that resolution are going to be critical to the—. They were down to our last 4 resolutions. We can get back on those. And we'll honor your request to go into item 11 under new business.

Nutat suk sabat. We have 11A, Resolution 54-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding and authorizing the mayor to negotiate and execute a contract with Arctic Slope Native Association Ltd., ASNA, in the amount of $1.75 million as funding for the Medical Travel and Funeral Assistance Program, MTFA, operated by ASNA. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President. Since you read the title, going into the— whereas Arctic Slope Native Association is qualified PL 9363 contractor for the Indian Health Service and under the Indian Self-Determination Act, and ASNA is designated to provide health care services to beneficiaries on the North Slope, and whereas the North Slope Borough seeks to enter into grant agreement with ASNA to provide medical, travel, and funeral assistance, and whereas the resolution of the North Slope Tribes authorizes ASNA to provide services to tribal members And whereas North Slope tribes are defined as local governments under the North Slope Borough Municipal Code 2.36.280, as long as they provide governmental services, and whereas the MTFA program has had a high usage by the North Slope residents due to a high number of cancer patients and the funding has been depleted, and whereas it is in the best interest of the North Slope Borough and its residents that the borough provide additional funding, and whereas the North Slope Borough and ASNA have agreed in principle on a scope of services that ASNA will make available to the borough and its residents, and Whereas North Slope Borough Municipal Code 2.36.180 and subsection allow the mayor and assembly to determine that it's best interest of the North Slope Borough to waive competitive bidding for contracts where no competition exists.

Now therefore be it resolved, the North Slope Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute a contract with Arctic Slope Native Association Limited for funding for the medical travel and funeral assistance program during fiscal years '26 through '27 in an amount not to exceed $1. $75 Million for your consideration. You've heard the reading of Resolution 54-2026. What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt.

There's a motion by Assemblywoman Atangara. Do I hear a second? Second. It's been seconded by Assemblywoman Paul. Any discussion?

Any questions?

Question.

Assemblywoman Paul. Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to thank the mayor and his administration for the continued support for the MTFA program with ASNA. I know sometimes it could be difficult during those situations, and I just wanted to thank the administration. Thank you.

Green up. Assemblywoman Paul.

We have any other discussion on the resolution?

Question. We realize that the ASNA MTFA program continues to increase over the years. The last 25 years that I've known this program to be in place, it has grown exponentially. I remember it's something that both the North Slope Borough and ASRC partner up on, and I remember our share of that cost back 20, 25 years ago, like $300,000. So it's grown.

And as the needs continue to increase, that's something that's a natural thing, and we have to keep supporting this very important program. So with that, I heard the call for the question. All those in favor of Resolution 54-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Thomas Niparack Jr.

Yes. Stanley Brower. Yes. Eva Kinevac.

Yes. Frederick Brower.

Aye. Michael Donovan. Yes.

Celia. Aye. Robin Collette. Yes. Crawford.

Aye. Aye. Sreena Paul. Aye. 10 Yeses, Mr. President.

Resolution 54-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President, members of assembly, for your consideration. I will serve, uh, No formal notice, but there will be a request to increase as the fiscal year goes on as we try to match with what ASRC provides, and we're thankful for that partnership.

As we move forward, we should be seeing a $2 million match between ASRC and the borough, but we want to get the contract in place. As the fiscal year moves forward, we'll ask for an increase when it's appropriate. Thank you. Next item is 11B, Resolution 55-2026, a resolution authorizing the North Slope Borough to provide financial support to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. Mr. Mayor.

Thank you, Mr. President, for reading the title. Whereas the North Slope Borough is a home rule municipality, organized under the laws of the state of Alaska, and whereas the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission is a not-for-profit corporation formed under the laws of the state of Alaska in pursuit of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and whereas AWC's mission includes the protection of the bowhead whale habitat, protection of Alaska Native subsistence bowhead whaling, protection and enhancement of Alaska Native culture, traditions and activities associated with bowhead whale and bowhead whaling, and undertaking research and educational activities related to the bowhead whale. And whereas the AWC further works with whaling captains on measures to improve the efficiency of the subsistence hunt and cooperates with the borough's Department of Wildlife Management Research into bowhead whales. And whereas the borough is committed to supporting AWC's mission as it seeks the appropriate funds to provide financial support for AWC's administration and operation for fiscal years '25, '26, and '27 by resolution in an amount not to exceed $1.125 million.

And whereas the approval of this resolution will enable a new agreement with for FY 26-27, and whereas the North Slope Borough Municipal Code Section 2.36180, subsection 1 and permit the mayor to waive competitive bidding for grants to be made by the borough upon approval by, by Assembly resolution. Now, therefore, be it resolved, the North Slope Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to provide financial support for the administration of and operations of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission during fiscal years 26-27 in the amount of $1.125 million for your consideration. You've heard the reading of the Resolution 55-2026. What's the wish of the assembly? There's a motion by Robin Jonah to adopt.

Do I hear a second? Second. Seconded by Trina. Is that you?

Under discussion. Mr. President, I want to, uh, I want to, uh, disclose that I serve as vice I'm chairman of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, but I don't get any substantial gain from this, so I will vote on the matter. Assemblyman Donahue, I want to disclose that I do sit on the— what was known as a weapon improvement is now the subsistence improvement program. And I do have a financial gain every time I sit in a meeting, and I'm going to abstain from this vote. Thank you.

Any further discussion? Mr. Mayor, I want to disclose that I like to eat muktuk and have potential gain with this, uh, resolution.

You and everybody else on the slope, right? Sounds good. Yeah, hey, hey, Mr. President.

Paul, thank you, Mr. President. I just wanted to share my appreciation again for this, um, continued— the continued support for, um, uh, organization like this that continues to protect our hunting rights, um, and thank the administration and the mayor for, um, continuing on. Thank you. Any other discussion?

Question has been called for. All those in favor of adoption of the adoption of Resolution 55-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Trina Paul. Aye.

Avaya Bernal. Aye. Carper Puckaduck. Aye.

Robin Clark. Aye. Celia Attenauer. Aye. Michael Donovan.

Abstain. Frederick Brower.

Aye.

Eva Kinovac.

Aye.

Stanley Brower. Aye. Thomas Naparath Jr. Aye. 9 Yeses and 1 abstain, Mr. President. Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Resolution 55-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor, thank you for consideration and adoption. Moving back to our agenda, 8P, we have Resolution 49-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to North Slope Borough contract number 2018-052 with Colville Inc. for Nuxit fuel procurement and delivery for fiscal year 2026. 6.

Mr. Mayor, thank you for reading the title. Going to the whereas for 8E is, whereas the North Slope Borough Department of Public Works provides maintenance operation services to residents of all North Slope Borough communities under the authority of North Slope Borough Municipal Code Chapter 16.02, and whereas Public Works is charged with administering the borough's bulk fields resources, providing electrical, water, wastewater, and solid waste utilities, roadway maintenance, transit, and other services. And whereas Public Works, to meet its fuel supply responsibilities in communities where fuel resources are extremely critical, has found it in the best interest of the borough to secure the services of Coville Inc. Fuel through the competitive bid process to provide for fuel delivery services to support community needs. Whereas the borough has used Coville for decades and is currently under contract number 2018-052 providing ground delivery and support for essential field services in New Ipswich.

And whereas on June 1, 2017, the contract was awarded through a competitive bid process for $1.074 million for fiscal year 2018 and expired June 30, 2020. Change order encumbrances of $2,178,496 brought the total contract amount to $3,252,496.

And whereas Resolution #13-2021 was approved to extend the contract through June 30, 2023 with an annual budget of $1.2 million allocated for fiscal years 2021 through 2023 and increasing the contract to $6,852,496. And whereas Resolution #14-2022 added $500,000 in funding to support the emergency shutdown of natural gas supply in North Sit due to a subsurface leak, raising the contract total to $7,352,496.

And whereas Resolution 39-2023 extended the contract for June 30, 2024, with a budget of $1.2 million for FY24, an additional $400,000 change order in April 2024, bringing the contract total to $8,952,496.

Whereas Resolution #34-2024 provided an additional $750,000 in funding and extended the contract through June 30, 2025, the contract amount totaling $9,702,496 for diesel fuel support for the New Ulsted Power Plant. And whereas Resolution #12-2025 was approved in February 2025 to provide an additional $1,423,000 $1,617,000 for continued operations, increasing the contract total to $11,126,113. And whereas Resolution Number 27-2025 was approved in April 2025 to provide an additional $950,000 for continued operations, increasing the contract total to $12,076,113. And whereas Change Order Number 9 was executed to extend the contract through June 30, 2026, and provide an additional $1 million for continued operations. Operations in FY 2026, increasing the contract total to $13,076,113.

And whereas Resolution Number 20-2026 was approved in February 2026 to provide an additional $1.8 million for continued operations and increase the current contract total to $14,876,113.

And whereas the New York State Power Plant continues to consume significant amounts of diesel fuel, needing additional fuel deliveries to top off bulk fuel tanks, which is estimated at an additional amount of $120,000 for FY26, and whereas the requested additional funding will increase the total contract amount to $14,996,113, which will replace the bulk fuel tanks while accommodating the increased diesel fuel consumption at the Northside Power Plants, and whereas Northside Power Administration Code 2.36.180 subsections A1F allow the Assembly and the Mayor to make a best interest determination to authorize negotiations for supplies, materials, equipment, or services Where unforeseen conditions exist and the time required for competitive bidding will produce delays in an ongoing project, the cost of which will outweigh any potential advantage that might be made by the competitive bidding. And whereas the Coville has committed to develop a long-term relationship with the borough based on loyalty and trust and a commitment to meet or exceed all standards required of the contract, including dependable critical services, services upon which the borough may rely. Now therefore be it resolved, the Northville Borough Assembly authorizes the mayor to negotiate and execute to change order, Northville Borough contract number 2018-052 with Coville, Inc., in amount not to exceed $120,000 for the Northfield procurement and delivery project for fiscal year '26 for your consideration. Thank you. We've heard the reading of Resolution Number 49-2026.

What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt. There's a motion by Robin Jonah. Seconded. It's been seconded by Cecilia.

Under discussion. Abayek, you had pulled this one. You had— you have the floor, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. And Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for reading that into the record.

I guess my question around this is, when is this going to start and how is the fuel getting in?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President. Before I pitch over to Public Works, I do want to make note that we expect to see the natural gas consumption for the power plant replace the need for continued fuel to the power plant as we have that CIP project wrapping up sometime this year. Director Danner. Director Danner.

Thank you, Mr. President. Deputy Director Newman. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, members of the Assembly. Thank you for the question, Assemblyman Brunell.

This $120,000 request is for FY26. It's for fuel that has already been purchased due to the increase of fuel prices mid-delivery. We didn't have enough funding to complete the delivery, overland delivery to Newark. So we completed it, and I mistakenly thought we could increase the contract amount by 15% under the mayor's authority, which is why we're here today. We're seeking Assemblyman— Assembly authority to change order the contract to increase it by $120,000 that we can complete the payment.

I hope that helps. Does that help? Yeah, it does, because it was just a little confusing, that's all. But you answered it. Thank you.

Any other discussion? Any other questions?

Mr. President, go ahead. Who's that? Thank you, Mr. President. Um, Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for the, um, uh, reading of the resolution and, um, of how that fluctuation in the price of the diesel costs over the years. And, um, with the upgrades of the, uh, natural gas line to the, um, power plant, I look forward to seeing the difference in the cost drop for the price of the diesel here in the near future.

And I'm really looking forward to finally seeing the benefits of using those natural gas generators.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Mr. President. Any further discussion? Any other questions? Question? What's not in call for?

All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution 49-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call. Call the vote, Madam Clerk. Trina Paul, aye. Abayek Bernal, aye. Karthik Paschurap, aye.

Robin Kallat, aye. Celia Atungara, aye. Michael Donovan, aye. Frederick Brower, aye. Eva Kinovac, aye.

Stanley Brower, Aye. Thomas N. Jr. Aye.

10 Yeses, Mr. President. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Resolution serial number 49-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor, thank you for the consideration and adoption.

We look forward to running natural gas generators in New York sometime soon. We have 3 more resolutions, and I believe we can go through them before the plane comes for the rest of the assembly members and before the feed starts. So, 8Q, Resolution 50-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a contract with Tikia Federal Services LLC for the Point Hope operation maintenance services for fiscal year 2027-2029. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. President.

Uh, going right into the wheres, but before I do, I would like to note that Items 8Q and 8S are tangentially related. Uh, 8S is to get us through the fiscal year as it's, uh, the contract's been renegotiated. 8Q, the one I'm about to read, uh, will be the normal contract moving forward. So there's the discrepancy in order, I guess. So, whereas the North Slope Borough Department of Public Works provides operational maintenance support services to the residents of all North Slope communities under the authority of the North Slope Borough Municipal Code Chapter 16.02, and Public Works is charged with administering the borough's bulk field resources, providing electrical, water, wastewater, solid waste utilities, roadway maintenance, transit, and other services.

And whereas Public Works, in order to meet its responsibility in the villages where available resources are limited, has found it's the best interest of the borough to secure the services of locally owned business organizations to provide for operation and maintenance service to support community needs. And whereas the borough has utilized Tiki Up Federal LLC under contract number 2021-099 for fiscal years '21 through '26, to provide support— to provide needed support to deliver such services of the best interest to the community, such as road maintenance, landfill operations, solid waste collection, truck haul sewage collections, and water delivery services. And contract will expire July 31st, 2026. And whereas the North Slope Borough is opting to negotiate a new contract that will enhance its ability to administer contract terms and conditions and aim to serve the best interest of the borough and Point Hope residents. And whereas Public Works has projected that supporting the ongoing operations and maintenance Services for the Community Point Hope for fiscal years '27 through '29 at an amount not to exceed $10,300,000, which exceeds the mayor's authority to sign.

Whereas, as per Municipal Code Chapter 2.36.180, subsection A1F, authorized the mayor and assembly through resolution to make a best determination to waive competitive bidding and approve negotiations for supplies, materials, equipment, or services when there are unforeseen conditions, and the time required for competitive bidding will produce delays in ongoing project costs which will outweigh any potential advantage that might be produced by competitive bidding. And whereas the Borough and TKF have developed a long-term relationship in which TKF has committed to strengthening the Borough's trust by meeting or exceeding all standards required in the contract, including dependable critical services the Borough may rely upon. Now therefore, be it resolved, the North Stow Borough Assembly authorizes the Mayor to negotiate and execute a contract with TKF Federal LLC for the Point Nova Operations and Maintenance Services contract project for fiscal years '27 through '29 in an amount not to exceed $10.3 million for your consideration and discussion. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

We've heard the reading of Resolution Serial Number 50-2026. What's the wish of the assembly? Move to adopt. There's a motion by Robin, been seconded by Trina, and under discussion. Eva, you had pulled this one.

You have the floor, ma'am. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, for the contractor to get Federal Services, you know, now that we have the paved roads on majority of our roads here in our village, I believe— I don't know if it's— I believe, isn't it the contractor's responsibility to sweep all that gravel off the Pavement. Thank you, Assemblywoman Kinneville. Mr.

Mayor, Director Danner. Thank you, Mr. President, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for the question, Assemblywoman Kinneville. The answer to that question is yes, the contractor is responsible for maintaining the roads, including the paved roads, and that includes sweeping, operating the sweeper to sweep the roads.

Hope that helps. Mr. Mayor, thank you, Mr. President. I will say, under discussion of the sweeping, one of the things that we're trying to avoid is getting rocks swept into either community vehicles, residents' vehicles, windows, or homes. And that's something that we have to clarify the liability on before we pull the trigger on doing any kind of sweeping, as there is a sweeper in the community.

Hope that helps, Eva.

Yes, it does. But yet on that note, if we don't sweep the paved roads, it's just going to wear out much quicker. You know, we're well aware of, you know, what happens when When it don't get sweep, it wears off. So we're already having that problem with the Hondas. But if we have this contract with Pikiya Federal Services, that road needs to be maintained because we got gravel all over our— our paved roads, and it's not going to last long.

Those are just my comments. Thank you. Any further discussion on the resolution?

Powerful question. Question has been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution 50-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Trina Paul.

Aye. Obayegun Branell.

Aye. Aye. Robin Kaler. Aye. Celia Otonaga.

Aye. Michael Donovan. Aye. Frederick Brower.

Aye. Eva Kinneback.

Aye. Stanley Blower. Aye. Thomas Neparak Jr. Aye. 10 Yeses, Mr.

President. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Resolution serial number 50-2026 has been adopted by the assembly. Mr. Mayor. Thank you for the consideration and adoption, assembly members, and we will follow up on the sweeper.

Thank you. We have 2 more resolutions. Call for break here.

Uh, Mr. President. Oh, go ahead, Eva. Um, since these are, um, both Tikiap federal, um, services, and my, my question's been answered, so, um, can, can we, um, drop Resolution 52-2026? We can, uh, waive the, uh, reading. If you want.

Yes, please. My question has already been answered. Thank you. Thank you. There's been a request for the waiving of the reading of— well, I guess I could take that as a motion to waive the second.

It's been seconded. Under discussion. Question. That question has been called for. For the Waiving of the reading of the resolution.

All those in favor, do so by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye. There is opposed, say nay.

Hearing none, reading has been waived. We have Resolution 52-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to North Slope Borough, contract number 2021-01. 1-099 With Tikia Federal Services LLC for Point Hope operation and maintenance services for fiscal year 2026-2027.

What's the wish of the assembly? Move to approve. There's a motion by Trina. Do I hear second? Second.

Seconded by Jonah. Question? Any discussion? Question has been called for. All those in favor of the adoption of Resolution 52-2026 please do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote.

Madam Clerk. Tina Paul, aye. Avayak Bernal, aye. Kaphit Pakirap, aye. Robin Colap, aye.

Celia Atungaro, aye. Michael Donovan, aye. Frederick Bauer, Frederick Bauer. Eva Kinovac, Aye. Stanley Brower.

Aye. Thomas Neparak Jr. Aye. 10 Yeses, Mr. President. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We have, uh, Resolution 52-2026 has been adopted by the assembly.

Mr. Mayor. Thank you, assembly. We will get to work on the operations and maintenance contract. Moving on, on our agenda, 8 8T, we have Resolution 53-2026, a resolution waiving competitive bidding for a change order to North Slope Borough, contract number 2025-81021, with Nooksack Utilities Cooperative for their operation maintenance of the Nooksack gas distribution system for fiscal years 2026 to 2028. What's the wish of the assembly?

Mr. President. Mike, I make a motion to waive the reading of the resolution. There's a motion to waive the reading. Do I hear a second? It's been seconded.

Any discussion? Question. Question has been called for. All those in favor of waiving the reading of Resolution 52- or 53-2026, do so by saying aye. Aye.

Those opposed say nay. Hearing none, the reading has been waived and we have Resolution 53-2026 3-2026 before you. What's the wish of the assembly? Do I hear a second? Seconded.

Been seconded by Celia. Any discussion?

Why you had pulled this one? Yes, Mr. President. And just like Eva, I think in my last one, my answer— my questions got answered in the last resolution that we pulled. So call for question. Question has been called for.

All those in favor for adoption of Resolution 53-2026, do so by saying aye by way of roll call vote. Madam Clerk. Trina Paul, aye. Abayek Brunel, aye. Robert K. Aye.

Robin Collette, aye. Celia Atenmire, aye. Michael Donovan, aye. Frederick Brower, aye. Iva Kinovac.

Aye. Stanley Bauer.

Aye. Thomas Napra Jr. Aye. 10 Yeses, Mr. President. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Resolution serial number 53-2026 has been adopted by the assembly.

Mr. Mayor, thank you for the authorization. We'll get to work. Very good. With that, we are going to break.

Break at this time and continue our meeting when the Vice President has made it to Tel Aviv in a bit. So with that, we'll break. It's now 6:17. Good night, everyone. Good night.