Kodiak: September 10, 2026, Regular Meeting

The regular City Council meeting of September 10th, 2026 will now come to order. This meeting is open to the public. For those who are listening, meeting agendas and packets are available online on the City of Kodiak website. Public members are encouraged to tune in to KMXT on 100.1 FM or web stream from the city's website portal. Audience and council members, please silence your phones, and council members, please put your phones away for the duration of the meeting.

Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Mr. Stanford? Here. Miss West?

Here. Miss Woods? Miss Davidson? Here. Mr. Mangini?

Mr. Walker? Here. A quorum is present, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Woods' absence will be excused pursuant to Kodiak City Code 2.

4.025. Council members Davidson and Mangini are attending via teleconference pursuant to City Code 2.04.160.

Please stand for the invocation to be given by the Salvation Army Captain Diane Shadow and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I will just state for the record, Mr. Mangini, if you could, uh, confirm your attendance. Yes, I'm here. Sorry, I was having trouble logging in. Thank you. Now, are you standing up?

I am standing up.

Let's pray.

Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight with gratitude for the community of Kodiak and for those who have accepted the responsibility of public service. We thank you for our mayor Council members, city staff, and all who work diligently for the welfare of the city. As they consider the matters before them this evening, grant them with wisdom beyond their understanding, discernment in their deliberations, and unity in their purpose. Help them to listen carefully, speak respectfully, and make decisions that promote justice, stewardship, and the common good. We pray for the people of Kodiak, especially at this time, for families and children, the children who are going back to school and have a new year of learning ahead of them.

We pray for seniors, for business owners, for workers, and for those serving on the water and in our fisheries, for first responders, educators, healthcare workers, and all who contribute to the strength of the community. We especially remember those who are struggling with hardship, loneliness, illness, and uncertainty, asking that they would find hope, support, and compassion. Lord, remind us that true leadership is service. May all that is said and done here tonight reflect a sincere desire to improve the lives of those who call this island home. Guide this meeting with your peace and wisdom, and bless the city of Kodiak in the days ahead.

In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation Under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

We have before us the August 13th, 2026 regular meeting and the August 20th, 2026 special meeting minutes. Are there any additions or corrections?

Council Member Stanford, move to approve the minutes of August 13th, 2026 regular meeting and August 20th, 2026 special meeting. Second. Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Miss West?

Yes. Miss Davidson? Yes. Mr. Mangini? Yes.

Mr. Walker? Yes. Mr. Stanford? Yes. Motion passes, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. The first agenda item under persons to be heard is public comments. Comments will be limited to 3 minutes. If there is anyone who wishes to address the mayor and the council as a whole, please approach the podium, sign in, and state your name, or call in at 907-486-8610. And due to the slight delay in broadcasting, I will be pausing for a moment to allow some time for public members to call in.

Hello, my name is Eileen Fitzgerald. I would love to give comment on the newest draft of the Parks and Recreation Master Plan. It's not listed in your packet as a draft, but it seems remarkably different from the draft preceding it, which also was not noted as draft. But seemed to be a draft. There seems to be a proliferation of unmarked drafts circulating.

On this one, I'd like to just point out a couple of issues that are not new, that have been brought up many, many times, but still aren't appearing. And specifically, it's about the ice rink, how there are no known safety issues. So I would like you to know that many members of the public have come forward to express concerns about safety issues at the I think you know this. I think some of you have talked to the city engineer about them. I, I don't know what else to do.

But at this point, it does appear to be a reckless disregard for the health and well-being of children. So I would just like to say it one more time. There are exposed nails in the wall. There are many exposed nails in the wall. Apparently some people have worked with the city engineer.

There are thoughts that they're not at eye level, but they are definitely at the eye level of a child, a toddler, and they are at the eye level of a falling adult.

It is an athletic center for high-contact sport, and there are exposed nails immediately adjacent to a running/walking track. Um, the other issues that have been brought up multiple times in the public and still are not appearing in your draft Are the conditions of the ice that are causing kids to fall again and again in the same spots? People have brought up buildups of ice that kids have tripped on and sometimes divots. I understand you hope that there are new plans that will change that, but those are the conditions right now, and that should be in there. The other concerns about safety and health in the ice rink are standing water and mold.

I understand that there were people who tried to raise that these concerns were gonna happen, that there were problems with the design. And I do not understand how you can construct a facility that makes the activities in the facility more dangerous than they were before the construction. And I think you need to acknowledge that. Um, there were a couple of other things, and I just think you should— you should know that it is really disappointing that the swimming pool is still not in there. Uh, you have changed and corrected your assessment.

There are many things that the public brought up that still aren't in there, and I think that people find it inconvenient for them, but it's disappointing that the public would participate and be repeatedly— thank you. Thank you, Eileen.

Is there anyone else who would like to address the council?

Uh, good evening. Gail Armstrong representing Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church. At the work session on Tuesday, uh, was able to kind of read the room, I think, and kind of get an idea that, uh, doesn't seem to be the idea right now, uh, or the intent to sell. The Griffin Building. However, I do want to let y'all know that we stand ready if that, uh, if that, that changes.

I think there's a— we offer the city kind of a clean deal to take what could be a bit of a white elephant off your hands, and I think we have the wherewithal to modify the building to fit our needs, uh, for a whole lot less money and a lot less trouble than it would be to turn it into museum space, particularly to turn the top floor into Maritime Museum space. So it is our intent, if we were to gain ownership of the building, to lease the lower level to the History Museum, and we're willing to do some sort of a compromise deal with the Maritime Museum to share some space with them also. So just letting you know, we're out there. Uh, our needs have not gone away. I don't anticipate— I don't think they're going to go away anytime soon.

And we will, either now or in the future, be willing to, uh, further discuss the issue. So thank you. Thank you, Gail.

Is there anyone else who would like to address the council?

Seeing none, the next item under persons to be heard is the public hearing on the renewal of marijuana retail store application number 21069 for Three Sisters LLC, doing business as Wildflower. I'm now closing the regular meeting and opening the public hearing on this license renewal. Comments will be limited to 3 minutes. If there's anyone who wishes to address the mayor and council as a whole, please approach the podium, sign in, and state your name, or call in at 907-486-8610. And again, due to the slight delay in broadcasting, I will be pausing for a moment to allow some time for public members to call in.

Nick, I think this is a public hearing. I don't think this is the— okay, seeing no public comment, I am now closing the public hearing and reopening the regular meeting. The next item under persons to be heard is a public hearing on the renewal of restaurant or eating place license number 3458.

For Aquamarine LLC, doing business as Aquamarine Cafe and Suites. I am now closing the regular meeting and opening the public hearing on this license renewal. Comments will again be limited to 3 minutes. If there's anyone who wishes to address the mayor and the council as a whole, please approach the podium, sign in, and state your name, or call in at 907-486-8610. And again, due to the slight delay in broadcasting, I will be pausing for a moment to allow some time for public members to call in.

There being no testimony, I am now closing the public hearing and reopening the regular meeting.

Are there any reports from ex officio council members serving on boards, commissions, or committees?

Council Member Stanford. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Well, the last, uh, uh, meeting up in Fairbanks with the, uh, um, Defense Forum, uh, the first 2 days of AML was, uh, involved with that. And it was just probably, if you just sum it up, it's there's a lot happening in Alaska through its defense agencies and growth, you know, things from the new, if you want to call it, Fighter Town, uh, training areas, uh, coming to Alaska, uh, to missile defense, Golden Dome, um, everything from interest on the Marine Corps coming up, uh, to expand their footprint training, to the very obvious one for here, Co— the Coast Guard expansion But it's just, it's a, from the listening to the seminars, the probably the towns that are stand most involved or having like Fairbanks calls it their Tiger Team. They meet every month with the adjacent military facilities.

And because of the impact that's coming particularly to the interior with thousands and literally thousands of new personnel coming. So Kodiak is involved in a lot of this as a gateway to the Arctic. And it's just honestly in its infancy of growth that's going to take place in our state. So it's something to keep an eye out from for future councils to stay very closely tied with the Coast Guard and how that's going to impact us here. There's, there's just literally so much, almost too much to really report on, but it's, it's behind the scenes.

There is a national defense is, is growing rapidly in, in the state. So thank you. Thank you, Council Member Stanford. Council Member West. Thank you.

Um, I was also there at the defense forum. I thought it was real good to hear because the rocket launch people were there, which is a direct— and Admiral Little, who's the Arctic District Admiral. So I had met him here in Kodiak, and it was just— I met him again and he remembered, uh, so that was nice. And then the, uh, the AML— I thought the AML was very helpful. One of the things that was presented was the Port Communities of Alaska, and Tim was on the call this week, and I was unloading from the ferry while I was listening, but I think it is interesting that one of our big issues is incinerating, being available, being capable of taking certain trash and incinerating it.

We've had a waiver. And what we're talking about is we're talking about ships that come from Asia over here. None of the other ports had any idea. None of it's not required for any of them. They have something set up in Canada, but they don't even know about what we're talking about.

But I do. I, um, I just look at all the things that other port communities have asked the cruise ships to do for them. Like, if you want to come here, we need X, Y, and Z, and sometimes they build something. I just want to throw it out there again that maybe we could ask them, it says, because the other, uh, the other side, if we don't have the incineration, they can't come. Then we will lose the cruise ships that come from Asia because we used to have a waiver and the Coast Guard's not giving us a waiver anymore.

Just throwing it out there so people can start thinking about and talking about it. Do we want to ask the cruise ships to build, buy some property and build an incinerator if they— if we have to have that for them to come here? I imagine there's a dozen points in this that I'm missing, but I'm just throwing it out there so people can start considering. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member.

Any further comments? Well, it was interesting at the defense forum. To hear that there was so much investment going on all over the state, tremendous amount of investment in defense, and, and that includes Kodiak. Even though technically the Coast Guard isn't part of our defense community, they, they are still, and they're also building out in a huge way. But one key theme in Senator Murkowski's keynote address was that they're not building out someplace down south that already has cities and infrastructure and stuff already going, they can just kind of tap into Alaska is unique in that we are far-flung, our communities are very far apart, and our communities are not as well developed as most communities are in the lower 48.

And so we have a little bit of a challenge on our hands, and that's true in Kodiak here too, to meet the demands that are going to be put upon us as communities with this military expansion. Tremendous amount of opportunity, but also quite a bit of, of, uh, of work on our part too to be done.

So if there are no other questions from the council, we do not have any unfinished business. The first agenda item under new business is Resolution Number 2026-28, adopting a Parks and Recreation Master Plan prepared by Corvus Design. May we have a staff report, please? Yes, thank you, Mr. Mayor. 2023, The city initiated the development of parks and recreation master plan that would serve to guide the development and maintenance of city-managed parks and recreation facilities.

Parks and Recreation Department, guidance from Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, led the development of this plan, incorporating public input collected through the city's website, multiple advisory board meetings, and park assessment results. Parks and Recreation Advisory Board worked with Corpus Design and met several times between October 2023 and April 2026. Master plan was presented to council at work sessions on April 21st, 2026, and June 23rd, 2026. The last council concerns were regarding the Near Island Trail map. The Parks and Recreation director coordinated with the Island Trails Network and Corpus Design on the final draft that's in the packet tonight.

Staff recommends council adopt the master plan. Thank you. What is the council's pleasure? Council Member Walker. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Move to adopt Resolution Number 2026-28. Second. Is there any council discussion?

Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Miss Davidson. Yes. Mr. Mangini.

Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Mr. Stanford? Yes.

Miss West? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.

The next agenda item is Resolution Number 2026-29, naming election workers for the October 6th, 2026 regular municipal election. May we have a staff report, please? Thank you. Kodiak City Code specifies that prior to each election The council shall appoint judges and clerks for each city precinct and will also appoint a canvas board consisting of at least 3 persons. This resolution names election workers, including early voting workers and canvas board members, for the October 6th, 2026 regular municipal election.

It also authorizes the city clerk to appoint other persons if necessary to ensure that an adequate number of workers are present to conduct and canvas the election. I just want to take this time because I very much appreciate all the people who serve as our election workers to name them for the record. So we have our chair, Sandy Piotr. This is of the Harbor Master Precinct. Chair Sandy Piotr, co-chair Joan Altenhoff, Pat Branson, Ellen Lester, Joyce Gregory, and Susan Jeffrey.

As judges for the Teen Center Precinct, we have Nita Nicholas, as chair, Jamie Bennett as co-chair, Martha Branson, JJ Orloff, Eric Engvall, Kevin Brennan, and Virginia Puzon as judges. And our receiving board will be Julie Pineda, Heather Fincher, Teresa Medina, and Brian Price. And our canvas board will be Laura Arboleda, Melanie Weller, Sandy Hegland, and Pat Szabo. And a huge thank you to everyone who serves as our election workers. Thank you.

Thank you. What is the council's pleasure? Councilmember West, move to adopt Resolution 2026-29. Second. Is there any council discussion?

Well, I'd like to also thank our election workers and our clerks who do such a great job on our elections. And, you know, I think it's one thing that we can feel very proud of as Americans This is one thing that we do better than anyone else in the world. We run elections that are fair and well-run and clean, and, and it's something that is difficult around the world. And we do it with our own friends and neighbors. Locally run election boards don't run their own elections, and they do so in a way that has recently withstood the scrutiny of numerous audits and, and rechecks.

And it's been shown over and over that American elections are the cleanest and best run in the world, and it's all because of our local people. And if you heard some of your friends and neighbors when Brandy read them off, that's who's running our elections. And anyone who wants to help with running our elections can step forward and do so. So I think it's one of the great things about our democracy, and I just wanted to put that out there.

Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Miss Davidson? Yes. Mr. Mangini?

Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Mr. Stanford? Yes.

Miss West? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.

The next agenda item is Resolution Number 2026-30, formally submitting a harbor facility grant application to the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities in an amount not to exceed $5 million for the St. Herman recapitalization project. May we have a staff report, please? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. In August 2026, the City Manager's Office submitted a grant application to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities requesting $5 million towards St. Herman Harbor Phase 2. Uh, this resolution is recommended, uh, step to support the application.

Thank you. What is the council's pleasure?

Council Member West, move to adopt Resolution 2026, TAC 33. Second. Is there any council discussion?

Council Member West, is, uh, this, uh, is there a match on this grant, or is this for a match on another grant, or This is a 50/50, so the match would be $5 million if we received the grant. Uh, this is, um, I think that the idea would be that this match would also be part of our match for the MAR-ED grant we applied for in June. So this is— that's a total of about $6.9 million match. So, uh, we could, we could use this towards the same match. That's, that's the, that's the idea.

Uh, let me see if I heard, if I can interpret that for myself. So the city needs to find $5 million to get another $5 million? Yes. And the million that we receive, not the million that we pay, but the $5 million that we receive, we will use towards a match with the MAR-ED? Or will our $5 million that we cough up count as match?

The $5 million that the city— should we receive both grants, the $5 million that we should be able to check two boxes. The $5 million that we contribute. Yeah, the $5 million we don't have. Yep. Thank you.

I had a question too, though. Council Member Stanford. Thank you. But are these still all part of the picture with the TIFIA request, the TIFIA loan, long-term, which is extremely long-term, no interest, or how does that play into this? We've had a couple of conversations with TIFIA.

There's very little traction at this point.

One hope, one idea, one conversation is that we might be able to work through the Alaska Bond Bank, uh, and they can in turn go through TIFIA. Uh, so lots of moving pieces still. Um, uh, yeah, TIFIA is a possibility, but we're a couple of years away from that, probably. So just for listening, TIFIA is an extremely long-term, almost no interest, you know, you're talking, you know, instead of 15 and 20 years, like 50 years of almost no interest money. So I don't know, Ken, our— when our delegation goes back to Washington, DC, is that, is that part of the plan also and trying to work that?

And, and does that also have any kind of fingers that go into the Defense Department, you know, and forum and all this stuff? Right. So yes, we are trying to get meetings with both MARAD and TIFIA We also have that on the agendas just when we talk to our delegation in D.C. in about 10 days.

The—. We're still—. I know Senator Sullivan's still been working on the DSIP and then Congressman Begich. So with any Grace, they'll keep it in the, the bill and we'll— we can start becoming eligible for some of that money. Because I thought, you know, from AML, from a year, year and a half ago, you know, the people from TIFIA was saying they had quite a bit of money and not a lot of applications.

So I was wondering if that's stuff that's just— if the biggest need is, are we getting rejected, or is it that do we need help in the application process of the chases it down? I think they loan in such huge amounts that people, that Alaska, most of our infrastructure projects don't, just don't meet the criteria that they loan for. So it would have to, so the idea of pooling different community projects to access that money is one of the discussions that we've been having. And again, hoping that maybe the Alaska Bond Bank or DOT or some large entity with lots of projects going on would be able to get access that money with them. Council Member West, thank you.

Uh, Tim, I know that I introduced you to Mary Hoffman at AML. Um, AML has a really great program to help us with grants. I was wondering if you ever had a chance to talk to her, if we're going to engage. I just want to let council know that for $10,000, they will help us with grants on several projects. Yep.

So you'll be able to talk with her. They, they like shovel-ready projects, and we would also still need match for grants, for those grants. So we've, we've had a conversation.

I'm, I'm sure you've— everybody has thought about this, but have we considered Rasmussen or other Denali as an opportunity to get help with match? Is that something we can do? Yes, we have. Denali is also considered federal money. So federal— when you're getting a grant through MARAD, you couldn't use Denali money for a match because it's both federal monies.

But yes, thank you.

Any further council discussion?

Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Mr. Mangini? Yes. Mr. Walker?

Yes. Mr. Stanford? Yes. Miss West? Yes.

Miss Davidson? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.

Next agenda item is Resolution Number 2026-31, accepting a State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources Office of History and Archaeology grant for a 2026 NAPC membership and a CAMP training grant in the amount of $10,025. May we have a staff report, please? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. City of Kodiak established the Historic Preservation Commission as a volunteer citizen advisory body that provides recommendations to the city council, mayor, and city staff regarding the preservation Protection of City's Historic Resources. Recognizing that the preservation of Kodiak's historic landmarks and cultural heritage is essential to maintaining the community's unique identity and character, City has been awarded a National Alliance of Preservation Commissions, or NAPC, Commission Assistance and Mentoring Program grant.

The grant will support the coordination of Alaska's statewide NAPC membership renewal and provide a CAMP training opportunity for members of our Historic Preservation Commission and the public. Thank you. What is the council's pleasure? Council Member West. Move to adopt Resolution Number 2026, PAC 31.

Second. Is there any council discussion?

Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Mr. Walker. Yes. Mr. Stanford?

Yes. Miss West? Yes. Miss Davidson?

Yes. Mr. Mangini? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. The next agenda item is Resolution Number 2026-32, authorizing a lease of property on Pillar Mountain to Kodiak Electric Association. May we have a staff report, please? Yes, thank you, Mr. Mayor. City of Kodiak owns certain land located on Pillar Mountain within U.S. Survey 3945.

The city previously entered into a lease with KEA for an area with a radius of about 200 feet to allow KEA to construct and operate a meteorological observation tower. KEA would like to continue operating this tower for another 12 to 24 months and continue to collect wind speed data. For a potential wind turbine project. Thank you. What is the council's pleasure?

Council Member Walker. Thank, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Move to adopt Resolution Number 2026-32. Second. Is there any council discussion?

Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Mr. Stanford. Yes. Miss West?

Yes. Miss Davidson? Yes. Mr. Mangini? Yes.

Mr. Walker? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes. Mr.

Thank you. The next agenda item is Resolution Number 2026-33, appropriating and transferring $830— $803,000 from Oscar's Dock Covered Area Project, PN-850047, to the St. Paul Harbor Launch Ramp Revant Renovation Project, PN-24-05/850045, and authorize a construction contract with Brecken Construction, LLC. May we have a staff report, please? Yes, thank you, Mr. Mayor. City of Kodiak entered into an agreement with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Sport Fish in April 2024.

The purpose of this agreement was to improve public recreational boating and sport fish access to marine waters near Kodiak by cooperatively rehabilitating and maintaining St. Paul Harbor boat launch. A project was developed in two phases. Phase 1 of this project consisted of design and permitting. Phase 2 will be the construction. Initially, the total project was anticipated to cost about $4.7 million.

The project is supported by federal funding in the amount of $3.575 million. The city's match was anticipated to be about $1.191 million, or 25% of the project cost. The city solicited for competitive bids for this project and received a sole bid from Brecken Construction LLC in the amount of $5,400,715.

City issued an intent to award to allow for value engineering and further negotiation. City's contract engineer, Chris Lynch, was able to work with the parties involved to clarify permitting requirements and refine the scope of work to lower the cost by $454,200.

The revised contract price is $4,946,515.

The revised city's match is $1,371,000.

$1,371,460. This item is presented to authorize a transfer from the Oscar's Dock project to the St. Paul Harbor boat launch project and authorize the construction contract. Thank you. What is the council's pleasure? Council Member Walker.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Move to adopt Resolution Number 2026-33.

Is there any council discussion?

Council Member West. Thank you. The summary second paragraph compared to the first paragraph. So the end of the first paragraph says city's match is $1,100,000— I mean, $1,191,685. Then after we lowered the price, The city's match is more.

It's now $1,371,460.

Am I seeing that right or wrong?

So, yeah, we were anticipating a match of about $1.1 million when we thought the total project was going to be less. After the bid came in, the bid itself was higher than anticipated. So there's still some ongoing back and forth in negotiation. So we're able to reduce the scope of work and clarify some permitting stuff. So still able to negotiate and lower the price about $450,000.

So we still came in a couple hundred thousand over what we anticipated, and we had to make up the difference since the federal money was capped. Yeah, I was over here cheering when You reduce the price. I was like, hey, yay. But then it looked like, wait a minute. No.

And we are authorizing transferring $803,000. That's what we're doing, right? Yes. Towards this. Okay, thank you so much for— I had read that and I understood it, and then I went on vacation.

I don't remember anything.

Any further council discussion?

Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Miss West? Yes. Miss Davidson?

Yes. Mr. Mangini? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes.

Mr. Stanford? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.

The next agenda item is authorization of a professional services agreement with Kodiak Construction Services for professional engineering services. May we have a staff report, please? Yes, thank you, Mr. Mayor. This agenda item is presented for authorization of a professional services agreement with Kodiak Construction Services in an amount not to exceed $240,000. The Kodiak— the City of Kodiak and Kodiak Construction Services, uh, Chris Lynch, entered into a professional services agreement for professional engineering services on August 11th, 2025, following the retirement of City Engineer Matt Holmstrom.

Prior to that agreement, Ms. Lynch had worked with the city on multiple city projects, and she is familiar with all the current city projects and infrastructure needs. The city's current professional services agreement with Ms. Lynch is valid through September 30th, 2026, or until it's superseded by the city council. Staff recommends a new agreement rather than amending the current— or the old agreement, because this is a new fiscal year. This professional services agreement would be through June 30th, 2027. To ensure the city does not go without critical engineering services.

Thank you. What is the council's pleasure?

Council Member West.

Councilmember Walker. Did you find it? Um, move to authorize a professional services agreement with Kodiak Construction Services for professional engineering services in the amount not to exceed $240,000, with funds coming from the Engineering Administration Professional Services account, and authorize the interim city manager to execute documents on behalf of the city. Second. Is there any council discussion?

Uh, I have a question. I didn't—. Council Member Mangini. Sorry, I should have raised my hand. Sorry, Bob.

Um, what happens in the event that we get an application for the engineer? Um, just Just so I understand how this works, if we're hiring an engineer for the year and we have a job out on the street looking for a new engineer, how does that work?

This is Tim. So, I mean, at this point, the position is not being advertised. The city engineer position is not open.

If we were to ever open the position and get a qualified applicant, you know, I'm sure there would— that would probably lead into some kind of onboarding, and that, that person would— we'd probably want some kind of an additional agreement with our current contract engineer as they kind of come up to speed on everything.

That's just thinking on my feet right now. Okay. Um, I was just under the understand— or I guess I was under the understanding we were still looking for a permanent engineer, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The job was open for— it seemed like it was open for about a year, and I don't think we ever received a single qualified applicant while it was open. Yep.

Okay, thank you, Tim. Yep. Any further council discussion? Councilmember Stanford. Just want to say they were kind of fortunate to have Chris here, who probably knows every project that we're working on.

And I think it's pretty critical right now when you say a critical position. I mean, everything that's going on between the harbor and all the different funded grant projects. And so, The other thing too is when you hire somebody, they call it a full-time equivalent, FTE, where this is a straight contract, right? So you're not— and most FTEs, when you look at these people's pay, you know, the actual full-time equivalent is double that. So I think we're getting a pretty good deal for a body of knowledge that's just literally irreplaceable right now.

Any further council discussion? Well, I would certainly agree that we're very fortunate to have Miss Lynch at our disposal.

What does the— or, um, I think it leads us to the— will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Miss Davidson?

Yes. Mr. Mangini? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes.

Mr. Stanford? Yes. Miss West? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote?

Motion passes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. The next agenda item is consideration of VNR Fish Byproducts Incorporated request to purchase land with a legal description of ATS 1408 TRC-1. 10-11 Gibson Cove Road. May we have a staff report, please?

I can't hear anything. I don't know if there's not a microphone on.

Oh, we missed one. We're going back.

Did we forget something? Mhm, we're sorting things out.

Yeah, Left Station Five was next. Oh no, we didn't see the author.

Oh, okay, pardon me. The agenda item, authorization of professional services agreement with P&D Engineers for Lift Station Number 5 geotechnical investigation and report. I skipped inadvertently. May we have a staff report, please?

Yes, yes. Uh, construction bids for Lift Station 5 wet well replacement project were received on June 30th, 2026. City received one bid from Brecken Construction LLC. In the amount of $16,319,570.

The engineer's estimate was $7,207,692.

A notice of intent to award was issued to Brecken Construction on July 1st, 2026, to allow the city to develop value engineering items and to help reduce the amount of the bid. One of the major costs associated with the bid is the evacuation— is the excavation and soldier piling required for the wet well installation. Due to the critical nature of the piling, it must be engineered to hold back soil. So that is over 35 feet deep. This agenda item will authorize additional geotechnical exploration to collect more information on specific subsurface soil and rock conditions to support the design of the temporary shoring system.

The additional data should help reduce engineering and overall construction costs. Thank you. What is the council's pleasure? Councilmember Walker. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Move to authorize a professional service agreement with PND Engineers Incorporated for professional engineering services in the amount not to exceed $150,958, with funds coming from the professional services account, including a relocation— a re— $100,000 from the construction account to the professional services account in the PN750024 Lift Station 5 and force main replacement project and authorize the interim city manager to execute the documents on behalf of the city.

Is there any council discussion?

Council Member Stanford. I remember when this all start a few years ago, we, uh, we, uh, I remember just little comments about the mud and the depth of the thing. So, um, was that part of the initial— it seemed like it was a big surprise, uh, that's been— this project's been one continual big surprise. It kind of seems like, uh, uh Was there any, any of the consultants involved that were— shouldn't they have known some of these things? I'm, I'm just curious why.

And I'm asking because I had a friend that also, 40 years ago, that it's kind of the same thing, went out to Sandpoint for a runway, and after 30 feet they were still digging before they hit rock. This was a long time ago, but it kind of the same thing. And was there just not the pile boards done at the beginning, or, or do you know?

We'll let our engineer come up to speak to that.

So when the original project went out to bid, we did a geotechnical study like we always do for construction contracts. Of course, everyone knows that was almost the same amount of money But then in— for this phase of the project, we did a second geotechnical survey, but the house was still in the way. And so at the time we did the geotechnical, which was around 65% for the current documents, they, they just studied more of the water infiltration that was coming in because that also has a huge effect on the project. The amount of water that we'd have to handle and continuously pump during the pile driving. So what has happened is that with the house now being demolished, we are able to move back to get further away from the lake.

It's not an extraordinary amount, but it's still a significant amount, and the depth still required for this capsular unit that we just received from Smith and Lovelace is still deep and we're hitting rock. We already know that's what's going to happen when we lay down the, the sides in order to place this unit. So that's why we're trying to minimize the amount— maximize the information so that we minimize the amount we have to lay back and excavate.

So if I understand, so we know where the rock is now? We know that there is rock in the 5 test holes that we have now documented. So we're trying to better our chances of what we find by doing this additional exploration. And that's what this, this P&D is, is—. Yes.

Finding rock on a rock. Let's suppose we drill. We're going to be drilling to do that or—. Yes. There is a drill rig on island that got on island I believe Tuesday, so that everyone's busy.

So getting anything done is, is astronomically long. So we're thinking that if this passes, we will be able to get started doing the geotech tomorrow. We'll be able to issue a contract. They'd be able to start over the weekend, and we would have results by the 17th and a full report by October. So that then we can use the full report as part of the evaluation to see how much piling and what kind of piling we really need.

So this also involves the negotiation with— this is probably TMI— the lady next door whose lot is right there. There's quite a bit of elevation difference between her lot now that the house is gone and all of that. So there's lots more information that we never captured. We hope to be able to lay this side down to minimize the amount of soldier piling we have to put in where that lady's house is. And, but we also want to use rock anchors to support the soil.

We have to evaluate how we're going to get stuff to the site. So we're not even going to be able to use that Matrokan going down the hill because part of our soldier piling is going to be over there. So we're going to have to come through the neighbor's yard around in a roundabout way. So there's Lots of different stuff happening than anyone ever expected. It kind of seems like at the beginning though, they were talking about the mud.

I mean, you're going back 3 years. And so we did not know at that time what the depth of the rock was. And it seems like the planning's being done. I'm just curious, is it— so what happens if we don't hit rock where you want it to? And this doesn't— is it just— is it still— is there a chance that this project then Well, what happens next?

If we don't hit rock, that would be fabulous. Because then we could actually drive piling and know how far we can drive piling to, to hold the soil back. We do know at a depth because when the break happened, we had to put a new valve in, and so we know how deep that is. And then the next year we went back and we replaced that valve, and then we brought everything above ground, the bypass pumping above piping above ground for pumping. So we know what the depth is that we can get to.

That's still not the depth of the, the wet well. The bottom of the wet well is a lot deeper than the pipe that we know is there. So, technically, we only have assurance as to where the pipe is, where the rock is. And is this— and the purpose is— is this for sewage? Yes.

For the—. Not just runoff water. No, no, no, no. This is all the wet well, or the—. The whole purpose of the lift station.

The whole purpose of the lift station is 80% of our sewage goes through Lift Station 5 before it goes to the wastewater treatment plant. And so it's an older structure that we already know we have— we've had failures. So that's why we're replacing it so that it's, um, it can better handle. The pumps will all be on VFDs and everything is Skookum and control panels and all of that. Does it handle any of the infiltration stuff that we get?

You know, we hear about recent rains, how it went from up to 1.9 million, if I read it right, or just said. So is that also part of this? The infiltration water is also going through this also? Yes. When people talk about I&I, That's inflow and infiltration, and we have a bad INI project process problem because our infrastructure is older.

And so when it rains, our flow rates go up enormous amounts. Like, right now, without the rain, if we could do any work right now, it'd be awesome because it's much drier through the existing pipes and everything like that. And we have— and how many lift stations do we have around, and how many others would be potentially— can you look in just crystal ball going that we have quite a few more of these that we're going to have to do? Are they all different? So on the capital projects list that I work from, we have lift— lift station 1 and lift station 2 are next in the queue.

So we have, I want to say, 11, because the last number is Trident Basin is 10. So we have— 1 and 2 are the next to be replaced. We've done upgrades at 3 and 4. They're different size lift stations. We would hope with 1 and 2, we would be able to do something similar to what we're doing now.

Just replace exactly what's there, pull out what's in and put back new. It's not in such a large area and the flow is different. So is the infiltration, generally speaking, is that due to the porous and breaks in pipage all around the island, or is it due to the lift stations themselves? It mostly is manholes and pipe. We have anywhere— we have still manholes in town that are brick.

And so trying to hone in on where those problem areas are, and then we have pipe anywhere from World War II Orangeburg pipe. If you know what that is, it's a cardboard conduit. We have AC pipe, we have ductile iron pipe, we have all different stuff in different degrees of how good is it sort of stuff. So we've been trying to get a handle on that. And taking care of lift stations improves the way we can pump all of the wastewater.

But the infiltration—. That is handled differently as far as fixing that. So again, that's the pipe or the actual— the lift station, it's just a box that you're pumping out of. Right. The INI doesn't have anything to do with the lift station itself, except that it pumps any additional gallons of water go through the lift station.

So, all right, just trying to get an understanding of this. It's like the monster you can't see, get your arms around. Council Member Walker. Well, just for a picture, you got a hole in the ground, it's all sealed off 80 feet down. A lot of areas have the same problems out the Coast Guard base.

It has a pump system. You normally— the older ones for sure are down in the bottom, and then it collects all the water, picks it up, and shoots it down the line, you know, toward the sewage, you know, to the plant and all that, you know. Because that's another thing, we have to replace our plants. I mean, we're way behind on upgrading our sewage treatment plant, but, uh, There's a little bit newer technology out now. I know Chris does know about that, but this is the type of thing you run into.

I mean, the Coast Guard's really been trying to upgrade as much as they can on this type of stuff. So it's just expensive. I mean, you bring in the engineering firms and you have to dig down, you have to change out pumps, you have to actually sometimes pour brand new, uh, concrete areas, you know, to make a room down below so you can set up all your piping and stuff down there. And it's pretty, uh, uh, in-depth. So, Council Member Stanford, thank you.

So are we, are we actively— when we do, you know, it looks like, uh, like a Lucid Home project, we would read something recently, you know, where we're We're going, is it, is this infiltration? So I get the fact that it's a hole in the pipe. Sounds like the pipe everywhere is garbage. So, but is that, is that policy where we actually look to, when we ever do a project and dig, are, are we covering up the problem? Or is it something that is it in policy where we're, we have to address that?

I'm just trying to put this out. Future councils? It just, it just seems like I've heard the fact that our pipes old and bad, you hear that all the time. How are we addressing that in future policy sense? So we are getting ready, we're just at 95% complete design for Aleutian 7.

So we have replaced all of the water and sewer pipe in Aleutian homes. Aleutian 7 will be constructed in 3 phases so that it's more manageable. So over the next 3 summers, and then all of those kinds of problems would be addressed in Aleutian Homes. What— at the beginning of the year, Public Works, we've come up with a plan to pick a certain amount of manholes every year so that we can go in, and if we're not going to be doing any upgrades to that area, We're going to at least try to seal a manhole and pick maybe 5 of them and do that every year. And then the— we have currently submitted to ADEC for the revolving fund program, SRF program, the High Street water line, and that will address stuff up at High Street.

And so we're actively biting off portions of these areas to improve that. And then lift station 51, 80%, is that for— is that from all over the city of Kodiak, or is it predominantly in the serving area? It, it's all of the sewage from the city area because it all kind of collects and then goes. So, and we even have upgrades to the— just because Rich said it— to the wastewater plant in the We just were told that our questionnaire for repairing the clarifiers is— and that's at the wastewater treatment plant— was approved for a loan application. So that's good.

And we're going to be doing replacement of electrical and mechanical items in the headworks. We developed a scope today to get that on the street within the next month. So we're biting off little bits.

Could that be channeled into a TIFIA program? Because I know you can combine things and infrastructure dual use that the— I mean, if the military wants to expand in their, you know, I mean, this is the— flushing toilets are big, right? So I think it's, uh, is this all be combined for some of these things when we go back to Washington, or, or is there any kind of a— since we have a lot of separate problems, can you put them together? Is there a way that. It—.

I mean, water and sewer is number 2 on our list right now, so we will— we will be asking the questions. Absolutely.

Council Member Walker, keeping in mind that we don't want to wander too far away from our agenda, I just—. Just ask— proceed to let Bob a little bit know about Coast Guard has their own water facility, their own sewer treatment plant, and it's— they, they're actually in the process of upgrading a lot of their, their, uh, areas right now. So just so you know, it's not connected.

Any further council discussion?

Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Miss Davidson.

Yes. Mr. Mangini? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes.

Mr. Stanford? Yes. Miss West? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote?

Motion passes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Now the next agenda item is consideration of B&R Fish Byproducts Incorporated request to purchase land. The legal description of ATS 1408 TRC-1, 1011 Gibson Cove Road. May we have a staff report, please?

Thank you. On May 12th, 2026, BNR Fish Byproducts submitted an application to purchase city-owned property located at 1011 Gibson Cove Road, the former Cook Inlet processing site. Um, we went through the process for the application, and it was announced by the— myself during the June November 11th, 2026 regular meeting. Public notice was published for 3 times in a 45-day period, um, and no competing applications to purchase or lease the property were received during the notice period. The subject property is approximately 5.06 acres industrial zoned parcel with a 2026 assessed value of $1.2 million.

Under city code, if the council determines that disposal of the property is in the best public is in the public interest, an independent appraisal would be needed to complete, uh, would be completed before any sale. At their August 11th, 2026 work session, council reviewed the purchase application and the proposed development plan. Council did not appear to voice support for disposing of the property through a sale. Staff did speak with a representative from BNR Fish, and they were not interested in leasing the property at this time. Thank you.

Thank you. Well, this is council's pleasure. Councilmember Walker. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Move to direct the city manager to begin working on a disposal of land sale for B&R Fish Byproducts Incorporated to purchase land with the legal description of ATS 1408 TRC-1-10- 1 Gibson Cove Road.

I'll second for the discussion.

Is there any council discussion? Council Member West, let me see if I got this clear. They asked to lease— that was the first request? No, this was the first request. So they, they submitted the application to purchase the property, and at that work session, Council asked if they would be interested in leasing the property, and they said they were not interested in leasing.

That was okay. I thought we said we weren't interested in selling it. That was my—. Excuse me, that is what is before us now. Oh, okay.

We said no in a work session, and now we're going to say no I mean, yes, correct. So this is a formal, formal motion. That's—.

Love it. Thank you. Any further discussion? Will the clerk please call the roll? Mr. Mangini?

No. Mr. Walker? Yes. Mr. Stanford? No.

Miss West? No. Miss Davidson?

I'm sorry, I apologize. I got confused. We're just voting to formalize what we already decided, right? Correct. Okay.

Right. I don't know how I lost track of that. I know you just asked that question, Sandra. Yes.

Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion fails, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. The next agenda item is consideration of marijuana retail store renewal application number 21069 for Three Sisters LLC, doing business as Wildflower. May we have a staff report, please?

Thank you. The city received notice from the state of Alaska on August 3rd, 2026 of a renewal application for Three Sisters, LLC, doing business as Wildflower, for a retail marijuana store license at 158 Alimak Drive. Alaska Administrative Code 306 stipulates the conditions under which licenses for marijuana establishments will be issued. Kodiak City Code 5.24.020 establishes the license application review process for the City Council. As required by code, the city manager, city clerk sent inquiries to the chief of police, fire chief, finance department, and building official asking if any had concerns about the proposed license.

There were no objections from departments. Um, a reminder that KCC 5.24.030 prohibits a licensed premises within 500 feet of any school ground. A public hearing notice letter was sent to Three Sisters LLC. On August 19th, 2026. Thank you.

Thank you. What is the council's pleasure? Council Member West, I move to voice a non-objection to the retail marijuana store renewal application number 21069 for Three Sister LLC DBA Wildflower and to direct the city clerk to notify Amco.

Second. Is there any council discussion?

Uh, I, I do. Council Member Mangini. I'd like to, uh, just voice a conflict of interest, um, since my wife is working at Wildflower, so I'd prefer not to vote on this.

Uh, that's acknowledged, Council Member Mangini. Thank you.

Is there any further council discussion? Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Mr. Walker? Yes.

Mr. Stanford? Yes. Miss West? Yes. Miss Davidson?

Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. The next agenda item is consideration of the renewal of restaurant or eating place license number 3458 for Aquamarine LLC, doing business as Aquamarine Cafe and Suites.

May we have a staff report, please? The City of Kodiak received notice from the State of Alaska on June 21st, 2026, that Aquamarine LLC, doing business as Aquamarine Cafe and Suites, filed an application with the State of Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office. City staff was consulted, and in review of Kodiak City Code, there were no issues with fire code violations, building permits, and criminal activity. However, the fire department identified sales tax delinquencies and is recommending a conditional protest, or a protest subject to rescission. Council should review code and consider if they have any further concerns.

A public hearing notice letter was sent to Aquamarine on August 13th, 2026. Thank you. Thank you. What is the council's pleasure? Council Member West.

Oh, let me see if I can read the right one here. We've got all kinds of, uh, the conditional one is the first one. Thank you. Move to protest Aquamarine LLC restaurant or eating place license, eating place license application number 3458, subject to rescission authorize the protest letter to AMCO dated September 10th, 2026, and direct the city clerk to send the letter to AMCO. Second.

Is there any council discussion?

Council Member West, uh, this came from the finance department, and I really want to say thank you. Thank you to staff. Thank you to the finance department that, uh, is noticing that we're Uh, we have sales taxes that we can collect and we need to, so thank you.

Is there any further council discussion? Uh, I would just, I would just echo what Sandra said. Um, thank you, Councilwoman West, very, uh, well said. Um, uh, in reference to Can we talk about the email posted in this, or is it public?

The email that was received today was not posted in the meeting packet. So does that mean I should not talk about it? No, you can. You are absolutely welcome to talk about it. Okay, okay.

Just in reference to that email, it seems like there's some trying to get out of some of this payment by blaming an event on the city, but that there's, there's insurance for those kinds of things for the business. Um, I'd prefer to collect the money that she's collected and not given to the city.

Yeah, that's, that's correct. Uh, we couldn't do that anyways. You're right. Okay, thank you. Any further council discussion?

Council Member Stanford. So on the One of the two motions, uh, is a conditional protest if the sales tax issues are resolved. It says that 6 months, they have the time. That's correct. We give them the 180 days.

Um, as soon as we get notification from finance that they have paid their sales taxes, we'll— I'll email the state and it'll be lifted.

Any further council discussion? Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Mr. Stanford? Yes.

Miss West? Yes. Miss Davidson? Yes. Mr. Mangini?

Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. The next agenda item is authorization for the City of Kodiak mayor to become a signer to the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference resolution Number 2026-06-01, a resolution of Municipalities and Federally Recognized Tribes of Southwest Alaska calling for fact-based dialogue on the future of Alaska fisheries and coastal communities. May we have a staff report, please? Thank you. The Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference updated its economic study, Southwest Alaska's Economic linkages to the state and beyond.

To emphasize the region's fisheries-driven contributions to global, national, and statewide seafood supply chains, SWAMSEA is seeking to establish a unified regional voice through a joint resolution supported by the municipalities and tribes throughout the south— throughout Southwest Alaska. The organization is requesting that municipalities and tribes within the region become signatories to the resolution, demonstrating their collective support and commitment to its objectives. To formalize participation, SWAMC requests that the resolution be signed by each participating entity's mayor, presiding officer, um, or other duly authorized representative. The, um, and I will just make note that Kodiak Island Borough has also accepted and authorized their mayor to sign. What is the council's pleasure?

Council Member Walker. Thank you, Madam— Mr. Mayor. Move to authorize Mayor Haynes to become the signer to the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference, SWANC, Resolution Number 2026-06-01. Second. Is there any council discussion?

Uh, I have a question, Member Mangini. Sorry, I'm just, I'm just wondering if I should if there's a conflict of interest here since I work for SWAMC.

I do not believe so, Council Member Mangini. Okay, thank you. This case, yeah, I'll say there's no financial component. No, there's no— as the clerk pointed out, there's no financial component here, so there should be no conflict. Okay, thank you.

Any further council discussion? Will the clerk please call the roll? Thank you. Miss West? Yes.

Miss Davidson? Yes. Mr. Mangini? Yes. Mr. Walker?

Yes. Mr. Stanford? Yes. Does anyone wish to change their vote? Motion passes, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. Next are staff reports, and first is the city manager's report.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, just to Add on to the conversation we were having during the PND discussion. So the city has received 2 SRF, or State Revolving Fund, program loan agreements this last week. Those will be coming before the council at the next regular meeting to be accepted through ordinance. So the first reading will be that first meeting in October.

Both of these loans are for the Aleutian Homes Phase 7 sewer and water main replacement. Uh, one is $3.4 million, one is $2.2 million. The second loan does contain some loan forgiveness. I believe about $1.5 million of that second loan is forgivable. These are 20-year loans.

Interest rate is about 2%. The city has 2 additional water wastewater projects that have been selected for state revolving fund program loans. One is $2.2 million for the reconstruction of our existing clarifiers at the wastewater treatment plant, and then the We've requested another $10 million for Lift Station 5. Um, we will following up with those, uh, now that they've been accepted, we can apply for loans. Um, switching gears here to delinquent sales tax accounts.

We've started posting on the city website in an effort to improve compliance and for transparency purposes, those accounts that are delinquent. So there's a link from the home page on the city website. With a list of those, uh, businesses.

Follow-up, uh, from Tuesday night, there was a question about vacancies last year at the city for the FY26 budget, and just on average there was about 20 vacancies during the year. So out of 134 FTEs, we averaged about 115.

The city Cash Fest score has increased to 91, uh, during the last investment committee meeting, the finance director is authorized to move money, uh, and that helped increase our score. Um, and lastly, uh, P&D was in town yesterday for several site visits. They've, uh, traveled around with our city engineer and with the harbormaster looking at Gibson Cove, Near Island Quarry for drainage, the Travel Lift, uh, the rail asphalt there, the project, uh, Pier 2 damage, the water dock, and of course looking at lift station 5, uh, where the geotech's gonna happen. That's all I have. Thank you.

Are there any questions from the council?

Seeing none, next is the clerk's report.

Thank you. There will be a Historic Preservation Commission meeting on Thursday, October 1st at 2 PM at Fisherman's Hall. I'd like to note with the cancellation of the September 24th meeting, the next regular work session— and I would like to specify This is the next regular work session. While they're usually on Tuesdays, is going to be on Thursday, October 8th at 5:30 PM, starting directly before the regular meeting. And that's due to the municipal election being on, on the Tuesday.

So it will be Thursday, October 8th, beginning at 5:30 PM, and the next regular council meeting will be also be Thursday, October 8th, immediately following the work session. Both of those meetings will be held here in the library multipurpose room. Uh, this is a reminder that the municipal election will be on October 6th, 2026. City of Kodiak voter pamphlets, um, should have been mailed out, mailed out this week, um, to every registered household, voter household. The voter pamphlet is also posted on the city's website, and copies will be available or are currently available in the city clerk's office.

Early voting will begin on, um, September 21st, Monday, September 21st, and run through October 5th, and it will be in the Borough Assembly Chambers, which are located at 710 Mill Bay Road, and it will be from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Fridays. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions from the council?

Councilmember West, thank you. Um, did we print the pamphlets in black and white or color? Okay, in future, just my own comments, let's save another nickel, print them in black and white.

Uh, yes, uh, this morning, actually, on the topic of pamphlets, we are working, um, myself along with Nova Javier of the Borough Clerk's Office are working on, it'll be a code change to the council. I believe it will also be a code change to her, but to do like little, almost like postcards with a QR code to the online. But we do need to change code because right now it does specify that printed pamphlets have to be mailed out. So that would be with the caveat that we would have some printed in office for anybody that wants one, but they would have a QR code to limit those expenses. Brilliant, I love that.

Thank you. Just reducing, reducing, reducing. Any further questions for the clerk?

Well, that brings us to Mayor's comments, and I just want to encourage everyone to get outside and have a great time with our extended summer. Uh, other than that, I just wanted to remind everyone that, um, on Saturday we have our Congressional debates here in Kodiak for fisheries issues, and it's a big deal that all these candidates are coming here to Kodiak to talk about fish, which I guarantee you nobody wants to talk about fish. They hate fish. It's complicated, it's weird, and nobody, nobody really has a handle on it except us people in Kodiak. So if you do see them wandering around town, if you see a few legislative celebrities wandering about town Talk to them.

That's what they're here for. That's what they're here for. You know, they're here to hear your— this is your opportunity to, uh, to communicate with our candidates who are going to be our congressional delegation. And also, I would encourage everyone to attend or at least listen to the debates. They begin at 11 AM, which is an odd time.

They chose 11 AM so more people could get in and out of town and be and participate. But it's 11:00 AM on Saturday, and you can listen to it on, uh, KMXT. I believe it's being streamed from the borough's website as well. And I think— and of course, you can show up in person. It will be at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium at 11:00 AM on Saturday.

And that brings us to council comments. Let's start with Councilmember Mangini. Thank you, Mayor Haynes. Um, Good stuff. It feels like we got through a lot tonight.

Um, uh, lots to think about with our finances. I just keep coming back to that, but I'm, I'm glad that we're, um, really pressing for this collecting the tax— collecting of the taxes that we're owed when it comes to income, or when it comes to sales tax in particular. Um, excited to to dive into more exemption talk and stuff in the future. So glad we're getting through a lot of this, um, stuff in each and every meeting. I know, I know it's compounded by having missed meetings, and it'll be further compounded for our next month.

But good job, everyone. Thank you, and, um, we'll see you at the next one in person. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember Davidson. Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you everyone for your time and for helping me get set up to do it virtually tonight. I did want to thank the clerks for all the work that they have already done, are getting ready to do, and will continue to do through the election. I know that it is no simple feat to pull that off, and so we appreciate all your hard work on that. I do want to remind our community that we still only have 2 filed candidates for 3 positions on the council, so it's not too late for you to lobby for yourself as a write-in, um, candidate, uh, because we still do need to have a full council to, to continue to serve Kodiak. So I want to encourage people to consider getting involved, and I also As Councilmember Mangini said, I really appreciate the work that we're doing to move forward the collection of sales tax from delinquent accounts and that increased accountability.

I appreciate that we have started posting those accounts online so that people are very aware when, when, when they are in arrears. And I really want to thank city staff for your really phenomenal responsiveness to all of the council questions. All the extra paperwork and information and all the follow-up. I feel like every time there's been a question at a work session or meeting, at the next time we get together, we've already got documents and additional information from the clerks and our interim manager and our deputy manager. So great job being awesome, everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember Walker. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I have a big thank you to the clerk's office. You know, they handle so many things for us and for the community.

And our interim city manager, I think you're doing a great job. Look forward to move things along in that venue here in the near future. And I appreciate all of our fellow counselors. Some of we've been on the board or the council for quite a while, and I know some are going to be moving forward, and I've— every one of them, I've enjoyed it and look forward to some fresh blood also. So thanks to everybody.

I've been on here for 15 years almost now, I think it is. So I've enjoyed being on the City Council and, uh, looking forward to more futures. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember West.

Thank you. Uh, yes, big thanks to our clerk staff and Chris Lynch. Thank you for, um, getting muddy and, and helping us. Um, I also want to make sure that we, uh, recognize and celebrate Gina Davidson's birthday today. So I sang to her yesterday.

I hope she's recovered.

It was really good to go to see the governor candidates last night speak, and then I talked to somebody today who said he really appreciated the body language, you know, being there in present, present, and seeing how people handled themselves was enlightening. You know, you learn, you learn a little bit more. I'm supposing that since the, uh, pamphlets went out that we have a sample ballot ready. I just want to get a couple sample ballots and just walk around and make sure people know it's coming up and having them hand that out. So I will, I will be doing that.

I think, um, one of the comments I had about the rocket launch people Um, when we were in Fairbanks, they talked about— they talked about what they've been giving back to the community.

Um, it sounds good. It sounds good what they've been giving back. They say, you know, scholarships and internship. But, um, then I got some feedback that internship wasn't much really. So, um, I would like to see— I would like to see the Rocket Launch contribute more.

An idea that popped up today was the DOT's work at, uh, in Bells Flats, which is not city property, but still it's, it's our community. And maybe they could contribute towards some bear viewing, some pullovers or bridges, whatever. Um, I do also remember there's been a lot of talk about the downtown sewer system is probably really in need of some of an overhaul. So wanted to keep that in mind. The other thing is costs, costs that are coming.

Do we owe soon some money on the travel lift or the boatyard? Is there a bill coming due?

The travel lift had an inspection by Kendrick Marine a couple months ago, or within the last couple of months. We've had an initial repair bill presented.

Yes, it was to the tune of about $750,000.

We've had a follow-up conversation with them. Our harbormaster, was in, and our engineer were involved in those discussions too, to work on a 3 or 4-year phased approach to get those repairs done to our travel lift.

And yeah, that is true. We're not at a point yet where we're ready to bring it forward for council decision yet. And at this point, we haven't identified the funding to make those, any of those repairs. And then, um, I just— I don't know, um, I guess I don't understand the financing at the whole shipyard. Do we owe money for anything that we built?

Is that coming due, or are we— I know that we— my understanding is we owe more than what we're getting in rent. Is that—. Yes, yeah, we owe— the shipyard owes the general fund $2 million. It's in the hole. Does that, um, come with a time frame?

Um, it's a— at some point, yes, an auditor is going to tell us that we owe— we need to pay some of that back or all of that back. Yes, and that is our own general fund that we owe, correct? Yeah, anyway, I, I just wanted more understanding on that. So, um, thank you, thank you very much. And, um, actually, thanks everybody.

Thanks, team.

Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Stanford, a lot of thank yous been done, a lot of different good points. And, uh, I was trying to think about pick one thing maybe AML kind of touched on a thing that sometimes you wonder the conversations about bills. All future city councils are going to be doing this continually. You're going to have debts, you're going to have bills to pay, you're going to have to keep going, you have to raise revenue and different things.

I was amazed actually, and I still am amazed that our fire hall came in and it's paid for. It's just, you know, and I, that kind of blew me away and it's $30 million. So, but one thing we learned at AML was there was a city that was greatly in debt and many millions of dollars, and, and they started to take— and I'm going to kind of put this as a kudos to Councilman West, who continually asks about grants and how to go forward with this— and this small town that had several million dollars in debt over a 3-year period and a very proactive team approach going after these grants ended up receiving $40 million. They were like $2 million in debt or something, a small, small community. There's no way they were going to generate it through taxes.

And so I would encourage, and this is kind of for our council members, is to, is to look outside the box a little bit. Maybe these start of these little things. Don't be afraid to take a— as the military affairs people in Anchorage, they just say do it. And if there's failures en route, then so be it. But that's how you move forward.

So I would encourage our council and our administration to find increased ways of looking for these grant applications. We already know you're going to be talking about sales tax. I mean, I only have one more meeting, I think, with— on the council. You're going to be juggling a lot of really difficult plates. But, but if we look outside that box, take Councilman West's lead on this, find ways— if it's an advisory committee, if it's just hiring a few people— but do it and start to look for places we can do these grants.

If a small town in Alaska can go from $2 million in debt to several million to $40 million in grants, then it was just an effort on a regular basis that they did this. So anyway, I'd like to encourage our, our city and our council to continue and look at this. And just, uh, we've done a lot of good things. Administration, you know, I— you can see with the sales tax billing, you know, I've seen a lot of changes in our finance department moving things forward. You know, to get a Cashfest score of 91.

If you recall, I don't know where we started, but it was, you know, below 70 or something. And the highest ratings there's— if you get 95, you're in the top 2 in Alaska, I think I was told. So we're, you know, a lot of good things have been happening too, you know. So through this churn, you know, and hopefully someday I'll be able to walk on this short trail or ride my bike and get a ticket for it or whatever if they don't allow it or something. But, uh, but anyway, I— it's good things are happening.

Please get out and vote. Thank for all, you know, all the advocacy for people that are doing this. Uh, this city service is very rewarding. You know, sometimes you don't see that, but it really is. You can give back and you can, uh, you can make the lives of this town better.

So thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. The next item on the agenda is audience comments. Comments will be limited to 3 minutes. If there is anyone who wishes to address the mayor and council as a whole, please approach the podium, sign in, and state your name, or call in at 907-486-8610.

And again, I will be pausing a moment to allow members of the public to call in.

Good evening. My name is Carleen. Um, just that you're going to be going to Washington, D.C. pretty soon. Um, just a thumbs up that the military is no longer calling this a data center. And all over the United States, I think that's what they're doing too.

They don't call them a data center, but a rose by any other name is still a rose. So just wanted to give you that thumbs up. And apparently I've been hearing on the news all of the flock cameras, those are going up just rapidly all over. And I think that's one of the reasons why We need data centers. We need to have all that surveillance out there.

So just, um, perhaps that'll help with, um, your trip to DC. Thank you. Thank you.

Any further comments from the audience? Likely.

And no one's on the phone. In that case, may I have a motion to adjourn?

Second. Will the clerk please call the roll?

Thank you. Miss Davidson? Yes.

Mr. Mangini? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Mr. Sanford?

Yes. Miss West? No, I mean yes. I was—. Mr. Mayor, my next one.

Thank you. This meeting is adjourned. Happy birthday, Juna.