Kodiak Borough: Assembly Regular Meeting of October 15, 2026

All right, I will call the Thursday, October 15th, 2026 Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting to order, and we will begin with an invocation from Ms. Grace Griffin of Salvation Army.

Thank you for bringing us together, Lord, this evening for the opportunity to serve the community of Kodiak Island. Lord, we ask for your presence in this room tonight as our assembly members gathered to discuss important matters and make decisions that affect our community. We ask that you grant them wisdom, peace, understanding, patience, and discernment. Help each person here to listen with an open heart, speak with kindness, and approach every decision with integrity and compassion. May we remember that behind every decision are individuals, families, and neighbors whose lives are impacted by the work here done.

Guide our leaders to seek that— seek what is right, to work together despite our differences, and keep together what well-being of our community— and keep together the well-being of our community at heart. We place this meeting into your hands, Lord, and we ask for the guidance in what is said and done. In Jesus' name, amen. Now for the pledge. 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.

And we are gathered on the traditional homeland of the Sugpiaq Aleutic people, and we acknowledge the 10 tribes of the Kodiak Island region. We recognize the Aleutic culture that enriches our community to this day.

Roll call, please. Mr. Ames. Here. Mr. Gardner. Here.

Miss Roberts. Here. Mr. Smiley. Here. Mr. Vizcocho.

Here. Mr. Whiteside. Here. Mr. Woods. Here.

Mayor Griffin. Here. You have a quorum. All right, up next is the approval of the agenda and the consent agenda. The consent agenda includes approval of the Regular meeting minutes of October 1st, 2026.

Mr. Whiteside. Move to approve the agenda and the consent agenda. Second. Okay. Any discussion?

All right. It's been moved and seconded. We will do a voice vote on the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye.

Any opposed, same sign. And motion passes. Up next is our first opportunity for citizens' comments tonight. There are two designated citizens' comments periods, one at the beginning and one at the end of the meeting. These comment periods are intended for general comments as well as for agenda items that are not part of the public hearing.

We do have one public hearing item for tonight, which is Ordinance Number FY 2027-11. Comments for this item will be heard when the item is called during the public hearing, and, uh, please wait until we get to that portion of the agenda. For those who wish to call in, the local number is 907-486-3231 and toll-free is 1-855-492-9202.

And please turn off your radio or any other listening device to prevent feedback. And for those in the room who wish to speak under Citizens' Comments, please come to the podium and sign in, turn on the microphone and make sure that green light is on before speaking, and speak directly into the microphone. And please state your name for the record, address all remarks to the Assembly as a body and not to any member thereof.

Okay. Seeing no one coming forward and no calls, we will move on to committee reports. And we will start down the line with Mr. Gardner. My last— well, first of all, my computer has decided to update and restart, so I don't have my notes. But my last SWAB meeting was canceled due to lack of quorum.

I had swamsee this morning. Lengthy discussions on community economic development and basically structuring the workload for our November retreat in Anchorage.

Conversations about statewide transportation infrastructure plan, just a wealth of things, long 2-hour meeting, but the majority of it was scheduling things for November.

Mr. Vizcocho, none yet. None. I think you have— you do have your form, by the way, so you can fill that out. Um, Mr. Smiley, nothing to report. All right, Mr. Ames, nothing to report.

Mr. Whiteside, nothing to report. Thank you. Ms. Roberts, uh, HFAB was canceled due to lack of corn, so nothing to report. Okay, and Mr. Woods, nothing to report. Okay, that brings us to Our public hearing for the night, ordinance number FY2027-11, reestablishing boards, committees, and commissions as established in the Kodiak Island Borough Code of Ordinances, Title 2, Administration and Personnel, Chapter 2.100, Boards, Committees, and Commissions.

Mr. Whiteside, move to adopt ordinance number FY2027-11. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Staff report, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the assembly.

All boards, committees, and commissions established under Title 2 of the Borough Code, with the exception of those mandated by state law, shall terminate by operation of law 3 years from the date of passage, um, unless affirmatively reestablished or continued by the assembly for a period not to exceed 3 years. The boards and committees and commissions reestablished per this ordinance will be for 3 years, December 31, 2026, until December 31, 2029. The boards and committees are the Emergency Services Council, Parks and Rec, Architectural and Engineering Review Board, Solid Waste Advisory Board, Borrowed Lands Committee. The notice of termination as required by KB— KIBC 2.100.080, um, was adver— were advertised on October 7th and October 14th. The board and committee members were notified of the public hearing.

For tonight, and we didn't have any— receive any comments or responses to the email that was sent out. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. With that, I will open the public hearing for anybody wishing to make comments on this item.

Again, those phone numbers: 907-486-3231, toll-free 1-855-492-9202.

And anybody in the audience wishing to speak on that item, come on down, sign in your name. You might know the drill. I just said it a couple of minutes ago.

We will give a few seconds for calls.

All right. Seeing no public comment, then I will close the public hearing and open it up to Assembly discussion.

Okay. Seeing none, a roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Ames. Yes. Mr. Gardner.

Yes. Ms. Roberts? Yes. Mr. Smiley? Yes.

Mr. Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Whiteside? Yes. Mr. Woods?

Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion carries unanimously. Okay, thank you. Up next, Borough Manager's report.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, Assembly members. I met with Sarah Wilson this week to start the discussion about work on our new strategic plan that was approved for funding for this fiscal year. Her firm is also working with Saldatna, and we're working to see if we can align her travel to cover both of our communities while she's in Alaska to make it cheaper for both of us. I wrote a letter of support for the Woody Island Tribe.

I did get a lesson on how to say their real native name. I am too afraid to try to say it in a public meeting because it is difficult, but they— we got to spend some time with them. Seema went— or actually, I went with Seema, and they told us about their upcoming projects, and they have a lot of really great stuff going on. They requested a letter for approval as the landowner for cleanup of a borough-owned parcel on Woody Island, so we wrote that, and we're going continue working with them on some other access to borough lands. I want to thank Seema— as soon as Meagan left, it seems like we had everybody start at the borough.

We had 4 people this week. We had a treatment plant operator, a maintenance mechanic, and 2 laborers start this week. So welcome aboard to those folks, and thanks again to Seema. We're currently recruiting for a GIS analyst, a human resources person, and we'll be listing for a project manager to help out in engineering facilities. I wanted to say congratulations to Assemblymember Vizcocho.

I heard right before the meeting that he is the first Filipino member of the assembly, which I think is really pretty important. What a milestone for the community. So congratulations, Mark. In finance, today is October 15th. And so if you— if you're paying your property tax and it comes out of your mortgage, my dates will mean nothing to you.

If you own a piece of property outright or your home, these dates become very important. So we have the option to pay property tax in installments. Installments, if you do the installment method, your installments are due on August 15th and November 16th. November 15th this year falls on a Sunday, so if you paid your first half, you will, uh, your second half is due on November 16th. And today was the deadline for the full payment if you're paying all in a single payment.

Um, the post office has changed the way it does business, so if you are mailing close to a deadline, please lock it in and get it stamped so that your mailing date is clearly documented. In IT, they're working with assessing to resolve issues with the department's property sketching program. That's another thing that we're working on, Tyler, with. Staff are deploying regular security updates across the borough computers and servers. And following the recent move to a new server system, IT is strengthening the borough's data backup and disaster recover abilities.

They're also staging new firewall equipment at the landfill and testing wireless equipment. They're also developing procedures for keeping network equipment up to date and for secure remote access from employees, which is something that I heard from an assembly member just this week. GIS analyst position is vacant, so the IT staff are covering GIS work. They helped with a rezoned map for the clerk's office and fixed an issue with daily property data updates for our online maps. In engineering facilities, negotiations have wrapped up with our contractor.

The assembly will be seeing the contract at the October 29th work session and November 5th regular meeting. This is a really long contract, so those folks who are just elected, I'm sorry, you're going to walk into a very lengthy and complicated contract in your first meeting cycle. We're going to send that out early because it is long, and I know that you'll have questions. For fuel spill assistance, we're waiting to hear back from ADC on both our landfill soil remediation and our long-term care soil remediation projects. We think they're clear.

We just need ADC to agree with us. Our CARLUC project has been extended until next year. For our small projects, the leachate treatment plant citric acid dosed skid is scheduled for a late October install. I was able to take Seema out for a visit, and I realized that no one knows what I'm talking about when I say that. So, um, for assembly members, if you want to go to the landfill and ever see these projects and drive around and see the bare fence and see this citric acid dosing skid that I'm always talking about, please let me know.

We'd love to take you out there so you can see what it is. In Seema's mind, it was a skid steer, like a piece of machinery, and that's not what it is at all. And so it's great to teach people what those projects look like and how it's going to affect staff out there. So if you're interested, let me know. At the end of October, we're also going to be seeing Lawn Technologies here for both our KFRC and our main building projects.

We're going to see a change order for some mounting hardware that wasn't included in the original scope, but I Otherwise, that should go forward as planned. Phase 1 of our exterior perimeter fence to move the fence closer to the maintenance road is complete, and that fence is energized. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has been out there the last 2 nights monitoring bear activity, and they have paintballs with permanent ink in them so they can mark with different colors the bears so that we can watch them. Um, and so I am really happy that they're able to help us and give us a hand. We do have one small glitch that KEA is gonna be replacing a transformer out there next week.

So there's gonna be a 4 to 6 hour period during the daylight, thank goodness, of no electrics. Don't tell the bears 'cause there will not be a fence during that time period. But at least it's happening sooner than later. And I wanna just thank our contractors, S&S. They were amazing.

They worked faster, harder than we thought possible to get that done. And it's a great project. For designs, not a lot of changes. We have the final design for Northstar and the pool small-scale repair headed to the ARB. Um, and then we'll talk a lot about the other projects for the hospital coming up.

Uh, for the Leech Lake Lagoon dredging project, you're gonna see a money move request in the budget amendment for this when we get to that in the agenda. Our company is Tetra Tech, and they're gonna take all that sludge at the bottom of the lagoon and, uh, remove that. So hopefully that will change our numbers going through the Leech Lake Treatment Plant, and hopefully we'll have less calcium build up. If you don't know what I'm talking about, let's go on a trip to the landfill. Upcoming contracts, we are— um, Haley Wallace has worked on the RFP with Kodi for landfill cell 2 design.

We'll be posting that in the coming weeks so that we have a place for our municipal solid waste to go after our current place is filled up. And, uh, maintenance met with project staff today, um, that for the school district, and we're gonna have another meeting with them next week. In Community Development, there is a work session last night. They reviewed the packet for the 21st regular meeting, which included a land disposal case for Beaver Lake Properties and a brief discussion of officer elections and the recommendation of a commissioner that will be assigned to the Borough Lands Committee. In Assessing, our numbers are dwindling down for senior citizen and disabled veteran exemptions.

I was really happy to see zero in the undetermined column this week. We still have the same exemptions for exemption appeals. We're still waiting on the court's decision on legal fees for the 2024 appeal case for the Lutik Heritage Foundation, and we are still waiting for the Alaska Supreme Court case with Canada decision that was heard in December of 2024. The Kodiak Maritime Museum request for reconsideration was heard on October 6th, and assessing has 30 days to notify the applicant of their decision. And that's what I have going on in the borough this week, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Any questions for the manager?

Okay. Thank you, Aimee. Next, messages from the Borough Mayor. Haven't had any meetings or business since last week. It's midterms at the college, so it's a little underwater right now.

The AML Board of Directors, we have some resolutions heading this way, and so I think that's going to be on a future agenda. That's something we started last year, going through each of the AML, Alaska Municipal League resolutions, because I, as mayor, I'll be your rep at the AML meeting, annual meeting in December. And I also encourage you and our new assembly members joining to try to make time to go to AML. But those are usually really good discussions that we have, and it's good feedback for me as I represent the group and the borough over there. I'm going to go ahead and say my goodbyes now and not wait until later since this is, I guess, my opportunity to speak.

I—. So Caroline Bowe and Steve— so, One of the, uh, one of the things that I think I've come to appreciate during my first year as mayor is that public service is, is quite misunderstood in, in many ways. Um, uh, we all have, I guess, different ways of measuring what success looks like, and all those different ways I think certainly matter. But I've, I've come to believe that the most important contributions to local government are are a little bit harder to measure. Um, the quality of the questions that we ask, uh, the care that we take in listening to one another, the willingness to reconsider an opinion, and the seriousness with which we approach our decisions up here.

And I think that, um, 3 of our members up here have contributed to that kind of government in, in their own way.

Caroline stepped forward to fill in a 1-year appointment, and it's— which I know as filling in for a 1-year appointment is really unusual and really difficult, because when you join an assembly that's already in motion, you know, it's hard to find traction. It's hard to find your footing. But you brought zeal and perspective, thoughtfulness, willing to engage. Authoring ordinances, you know, in your first year is extremely impressive.

And so just your willingness to engage in the process from the get-go was really great to see. I appreciate that when, you know, you said yes when the community needed someone. And I mean, sometimes civic responsibility means committing years of your life to public service, but sometimes it means just stepping forward for one year. And there's There's real value in that. There's extreme value in that.

So thank you. Thank you for coming in. Steve, you've been steady and a steady and real thoughtful presence up here, and I appreciate that you've approached the work with seriousness and consistency, and I respect the kind of commitment that it takes to keep making these difficult decisions, and I've seen you change your mind, and that's really cool to see. And I've seen you listen, you know. And so, Steve, thank you for, for that.

And Bo has been a valued colleague. I've appreciated your, your judgment and your perspective. You're willing to work collaboratively on a lot of challenges, you know, that, that we faced. You are someone that I can count on for real thoughtful conversations, including some that don't always happen, you know, up here at the dais. And I think that is worth recognizing because good government doesn't always depend on what happens during a public meeting, but on the preparation and the reflection and the genuine effort to understand decisions up here.

So I appreciate it. I appreciate your steadiness and your commitment to doing right by the committee. And I know we— this election season, and so we're— the motif of winning is kind of at its highest expression right now, winning an election, winning an argument, winning a vote.

But I think— What we found is it's, you know, good government is something— it's doing something more difficult than winning. We have to accept that those of us up here are working with good faith and that we can look at the same things and reach different conclusions, that we can distinguish between disagreement and disrespect. And you three have brought a lot of respect to your seats and to me too, personally.

And so I think you also understand that the institutions we serve don't belong to us. We are temporary stewards of something that existed before we arrived and it will exist and hopefully remain strong. Long after we're gone. So thank you for the, uh, the vigorous, um, debates and different, different ideas and different perspectives. Um, I think the, the conduct, you know, and with which that we have those disagreements, as long as we have them with intellectual honesty and humility, a shared commitment to our community, then, then we'll be better.

So thank you for helping us carry that responsibility. Um, for this time. We're not always— you'll be rewarded with applause today, but public service is not always rewarded with applause. It's the willingness to serve as an act of faith, you know, a faith in yourself and a faith in your community. So thank you for that faith and for your thoughtfulness.

And congratulations to those who are about to join us. I hope that your voices and your contributions Tor community will continue to, will just continue for many years to come. So, just wanted to say that real quick before we move into the sexy business of contracts.

Yeah. Did I just deflate the whole thing by saying sexy contracts? Probably. Okay, contracts. Let's get into it.

All right. Our first contract for tonight, coming back here, is Contract Number FY2027-15A, amending Contract Number FY2027-15, KIB Facility Snow Removal, Ice Control and Sweeping with MK Enterprises to include a $250,000 not-to-exceed limit. Mr. Whiteside.

15A, amending contract number FY2027-15, KIB Facilities Snow Removal, Ice Control, and Sweeping Contract with MK Enterprises to include a $250,000 not-to-exceed limit. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Manager Williams. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

In order to have a contract with us, we require a performance bond. In order to get a performance, uh, bond, the contractor's insurance company needed a monetary value. Staff took the value of that contract over the last few years, averaged it, doubled it, and we came up with $250,000. You'll see the addition in Part 1 of the General Provisions in Section 3, Subsection A. It just has a little line in there giving a value of not to exceed $250,000.

This will allow that contract to move forward, which seems very important as the temperature keeps dropping. Thank you.

Any discussion or questions for the manager?

Okay, roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Ms. Roberts? Yes.

Mr. Smiley? Yes. Mr. Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Whiteside?

Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Ames? Yes.

Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion carries unanimously. Okay, up next, um, we have 4 contracts, um, uh, dealing with, uh, Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center.

And what we are going to do is we are going to go ahead and make a motion for this first contract. Manager Williams, if you wouldn't mind just going ahead and giving a staff report for all of the contracts. Oh, fun. Yeah. And then we will just kind of—.

Absolutely. Knock them out as we go. Sure. So the first contract to kick things off is FY 2027-48, Approval of Engineering Implementation Support. And commissioning for the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center chiller project with AMC Engineers in the amount of $1,000— $102,005.

Mr. Bo Sedillo. Moved to authorize the Borough Manager to execute contract number FY2027-48 for engineering implementation support and commissioning for the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center chiller project with AMC Engineers in the amount of $102,000. $5. Second. That's been moved and seconded.

All right, take it away. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Staff is asking the assembly to concur with the proposed project implementation and project delivery approach for the chiller replacement project, uh, with the money that we have received from the Rural Health Care Transformation Project. The total project cost is $4,239,116, with $3,801,380 coming from the RHT FPP funds themselves, and $437,736 coming from the hospital R&R fund. In the first contract, that is for a contract with AMC Engineers in the amount of $102,005.

That is for— there is a list of services, but it basically is the commissioning and construction administration work. Um, it's estimated to take place over 6 months of active on-site work, um, and this is money that will come from RHTP funds. The next contract, and that's the big one, I'm glad everyone's excited about contracts tonight, that's for a total of $3,855,027, and that is with Davis Construction Engineers. That is for removing the existing chiller unit, building a new pad, um, Pouring the— or procuring the new chiller unit, mechanical piping, removing all of the old mounts, all of the electrical upgrades, the fire suppression system. And I know Cody talked to you last week about the need for that winter alternate because we're going to have to tent and heat the areas for the cement so it cures in the cold winter months.

This is a project that Cody has worked really hard with Tyler, who's in the back of the room, so thank you for being here, Tyler. And we call them Big Prov, but that RESO team, the real estate and, uh, real estate and strategy operations team. Um, and I know Kodi listed the names, but those folks have been working really hard, and I, I think you guys heard that Kodi has been taking late night phone calls and working over the weekend to make sure that we got all of these ducks in a row so we could get this pushed through so we have time to order that chiller. Uh, mixed reports, 30 to 50 weeks. That's a pretty big swing.

We're hoping more for 30, but the sooner that gets ordered the better. This second contract here, 49, is the one that will actually order that. The third contract is the project management. That is R&R funded for $230,826.

Successful implementation is going to require this ongoing project management, including coordination with the contractor, monitoring of the schedule and budget. This will be done by Providence with borough oversight. We are going to retain all contract and funding authority, including vendor approvals, payment approvals, contract amendments, and final project acceptance. Um, the day-to-day activities will be, um, handled by Providence and that big team. Um, I know there were questions last week about the price point of that, and we talked about salaries and, and how expensive that is.

I think for the amount of work that's already been done and the amount of work that's going to happen between now and June 30th, Knowing that our staff would be really, really stretched to do that, I think that that's a very solid plan for us to do. The last project is for the mandatory inspections. That's with Alaska Test Lab in the amount of $37,325. We are seeking approval of that, but right now we do believe that the Rural Health Care Transformation Program funds will also pay for that. That is all of the quality control and go turn on the machine and make sure everything works testing.

And so that is an absolutely mandatory part of the whole deal. So that one absolutely has to go through in order for the project to happen. I'm happy to answer detailed questions, or Tyler is here if you have Providence questions or however we can help. I know that's a lot of money really fast. We thought it would be better for this version of the assembly to see this than for 3 or 4 new people to try to take this on, um, and have to try to catch up.

This has been through our Health Facilities Advisory Board, and they've been kept up to date as much as we can. It's kind of an ever-changing goalpost, but again, our staff has been working really hard with the Providence staff to get everything in line so that we figure out which funds can pay for which. And I think the biggest thing that we had to take out was the demolition portion. So you'll see on that Davis contract that the demolition funds are out, and that will get paid for by the R&R fund. Questions?

Okay. Questions or comments for our discussion for the manager? Mr. Smiley. I have a procedural question first. Do we have to read off all of these contracts?

We will—. Yes, we will be reading them off and voting on them individually, yes. Okay. I served on the Health Facilities Advisory Board. This has been going on for a long, long time now.

More than a year and a half, I think. And, uh, these, uh, additions to the hospital are required in order for them to be able to do their job well and to be safely, uh, in, uh, dealing with their patients. Um, we've been through every bit of this. I have to say that, uh, Tyler and Kodiak Island have done a yeoman's job, both of them. On trying to explain this and to try to nail things down when we had questions.

This is big money for stuff. I'm really happy we got the grant for it because it was going to be a pain in the butt if we didn't, and we did. So I'm all in favor of all of this. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Woods.

I'm just gonna go ahead and start and say I'm massively in favor of adopting— of accepting these contracts. Um, I recently got to spend some time, an extended period of time in Providence, uh, due to a new addition to the family. And when I tell you that they literally can't get parts of that building cool enough for the comfort of delivering mothers, that's a whole problem. Uh, second bit of this, and please correct me if I'm wrong, Madam Manager, if an engineering and facility person or personnel from the Bureau were to do this, they'd be out of pocket for other projects for 30 to 50 weeks, is that correct? 30 To 50 weeks is the lead time for the order of the chiller project, but I think a project management has already started.

I would say between like weeks, months ago until we're wrapping it up on June 30th, 2027. I, we would, I think it would take both of our project staff, you know, and Haines brand new, that, that would be a big pull. In which time everything else is falling by the wayside. Absolutely. Yeah.

Thank you. Mr. Gardner. I know we've wanted to, uh, to get this project completed for quite some time. I'm really excited about the RHTP funding coming through, and I know how hard Tyler and Kodiak have worked on this. I do have a problem with the third contract for project management, and, um, it just frustrates me.

I researched it a bit, and with Knowing how much RSO staff that Providence has throughout its network, it feels like we are front-loading their staff's salary to me, and it feels wrong. It feels a little bit greasy. All that being said, I do want everything to go through, but I will not be supporting the third contract.

Mr. Whiteside. Thank you. I will piggyback on Mr. Gardner's statement in that I feel that was a great opportunity for Providence to lean in and contribute given that the vast majority of this project is covered by the RHTP grant. So really disappointed to see that amount as well and that I feel Providence really missed an opportunity there to contribute.

Thank you. Anyone else? Mr. Vizcocho.

So I'm basically new, right? But I'm trying to figure out the QA/QC on the job is coming from the same party that's going to be QCing, QAing their job, Madam Borough. So the fourth contract is just for that quality testing, um, for special inspection services from Alaska Test Lab, and then Davis Contractors, um, will be doing some of the QA/QC, quality assurance, quality control themselves, but I think Kodiak explained last week that that's pretty typical. We do that with our own projects as well. But then they have that RESO team from Providence that's watching and doing the project management as well.

That team will be responsible for that and not the borough.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I guess I'm just concerned because it's coming from the same Is the same company that's going to be queuing or no? Can you explain that again, please? So the last contract is with Alaska Test Lab, and there's a list of all of the stuff that they have to inspect and test, and they do the final inspection and closeout documentation. And so there is a third party going in and making sure that everything is taken care of.

I just wanted to make sure there's a third party. Thank you.

Anyone else?

Okay, we will take a roll call vote on contract number FY2027-48 first. Okay, Miss Roberts? Yes. Mr. Smiley? Yes.

Mr. Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Whiteside? Yes. Mr. Woods?

Yes. Mr. Ames? Yes. Mr. Gardner? Yes.

Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes with unanimous votes. All right, the next contract is contract number FY2027-49, installation of Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center chiller with Davis Construction Engineers. Mr. Bo Sedillo. Move to authorize the borough manager to execute contract number FY2027-49, installation of Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center chiller with Davis Construction Engineers in the amount of $3,855,000 $1,027.

Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any further, any further questions or discussion on this one before we vote? Okay, seeing none, roll call vote on the motion. Mr. Smiley?

Yes. Mr. Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Whiteside? Yes.

Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Ames? Yes. Mr. Gardner?

Yes. Miss Roberts? Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes.

Unanimously. All right, thank you. Uh, the next one is contract number FY2027-50 for project management services from Providence for the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center chiller project. Mr. Whiteside. Move to authorize the Borough Manager to execute contract number FY2027-50 project management services from Providence for the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center chiller project in the amount of $230,827.

$26,000. Second. It has been moved and seconded. Any further questions or discussion on this one? I just have one really quick.

If this contract is not approved, what would happen?

We would probably have to go to a third party and try to get a project manager outside of Providence. I still don't think our staff would be able to handle that and all of the stuff inside.

The folks that will be doing the project management have been with this project from the beginning. They are right now in my mind the best choice. Okay. Thank you. Roll call vote on the motion, please.

Mr. Vizcocho. Yes. Mr. Bo Sedillo-Whiteside. Yes. Mr. Woods.

Yes. Mr. Ames. Yes. Mr. Gardner. No.

Ms. Roberts. Yes. Mr. Smiley. Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote?

Motion passes with 6 yes, 1 no. Okay, and our final contract number FY2027-51, special inspection services with Alaska Test Lab for the PKIMC chiller project in the amount of $37,325. Mr. Whiteside. Move to authorize the borough manager to execute contract number FY2027-51 for special inspection services with Alaska Test Lab for the Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center chiller project in the amount of $37,325.

Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion or questions on this item? Seeing none, roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Whiteside.

Yes. Mr. Woods. Yes. Mr. Ames. Yes.

Mr. Gardner. Yes. Miss Roberts. Yes. Mr. Smiley.

Yes. Mr. Vizcocho. Yes. Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote?

Motion carried unanimously. All right. Thank you, everyone. And thank you, Tyler and Kodiak, for working on that. We have a couple resolutions tonight.

Resolution number FY2027-06, approval of the assembly meeting calendar for the year 2027. Mr. Whiteside, please move to adopt resolution number FY2027-06.

Second. It's been moved and seconded. Uh, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the assembly. The assembly is required to establish and adopt its annual meeting schedule via resolution.

Under current borough code, regular meetings are scheduled to commence at 6:30 PM on, on the first and third Thursdays of each month, and, and alternate times and locations may be designated provided proper notice is issued. Should the assembly choose to deviate from the established schedule or location, should adjustments— maybe such adjustments may be implemented contingent upon timely public notice. In accordance with our code, the assembly maintains the authority to advance, postpone, or cancel sessions if a regular meeting falls on a holiday or holiday eve. Furthermore, a meeting may be canceled due to the lack of quorum or insufficient volume of business, in which case any pending agenda items will be deferred to the next regular scheduled meeting. At the last work session, we also discussed about adjustments that needed to be made to the calendar, and the updated calendar is attached to the packet as an exhibit.

I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. All right, thank you. Thank you for making those changes. Any further discussion on the calendar?

Seeing none, roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Ames? Yes.

Mr. Gardner? Yes. Ms. Roberts? Yes. Mr. Smiley?

Yes. Mr. Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Whiteside? Yes.

Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously. All right, our second resolution is Resolution Number FY 2027-07, ratifying and certifying the results of the October 6, 2026 regular municipal election. Mr. Whiteside, move to adopt Resolution Number FY 2027-07. Second.

It's been moved and seconded. Uh, Madam Clerk, again, thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the assembly. The borough election held on October 2026 was executed seamlessly thanks to the professionalism demonstrated by the election officials. Uh, we recognize all the precinct workers, the receiving team, canvas board, and staff for their excellent work.

We actually have two election officials that are here in the room, um, Miss Nanita Nicolas and Virginia Puzon, and we would like to extend our thanks to them. The 4 members of the canvas team met yesterday and carefully reviewed and tallied the by mail absentee special needs questioned and write-in ballots. They cross-examined ballot accountability reports from every precinct and from the early voting location. The canvas finds that the election fully complied with state laws and borough ordinances and requests that the Assembly adopt Resolution Number FY 2020-01. 7-07 To certify the election results.

Additionally included in the packet is information regarding qualification requirements about employment and personal services contracts of those elected to office. Elected officials with potential conflicts will be sworn in following the resolution of conflicting employment or personal service contracts within the 30-day certification window following the election. I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you, Nova. Any questions?

Mr. Gardner. Our one postponed electee, if you will, what happens procedurally if he declines the position? Do we appoint? What we are going to do then is follow the code when it comes to filling and— vacating and filling in the seat. We need to advertise it and then accept applications, and then it will be an assembly appointment for a 1-year seat.

Thank you. You're welcome.

Any other questions? Mr. Woods. More just a thank you, Nova. You guys make this look easy every year. How you do it with managing as many particular cats as you guys do, it's beyond me.

And I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who participated Okay, um, all right, roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Ames? Yes. Mr. Gardner? Yes.

Miss Roberts? Yes. Mr. Smiley? Yes. Mr. Vizcocho?

Yes. Mr. Whiteside? Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes.

Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion carries unanimously.

Almost, almost. Um, to a couple of ordinances tonight. Ordinance number FY 2027-01A, amending ordinance number FY 2027-01, fiscal year 2027 budget, by amending budgets and appropriations to account for various revenues that are over budget, providing for additional expenditures, and moving funds between projects. Mr. Whiteside. Move to introduce ordinance number FY 2027-01A advance it to public hearing at the next regular meeting of the assembly.

Second. It's been moved and seconded. Uh, Madam Manager. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This ordinance presents the net changes for additional funding requests which occurred during the current fiscal year for items that we did not know about during the initial creation of the fiscal year '27 budget or for project estimates.

We're going to be walking through 9 items tonight. Our first one is a request for a transfer of $2,010 from the general fund to the capital project Fund for the Long-Term Care Fuel Spill Closeout Project. The second is a request for a transfer of $28,660 from the Capital Project Fund for the Fisheries Economic Development Project to the General Fund for nonprofit funding to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Hold on, I'm going to switch glasses because those aren't strong enough. Aha, thank you.

Third is requesting a return of $45,376.90 from the Capital Project Fund for the Elevator modernization of Kodiak Middle School project to the Building and Grounds Fund because that project is complete. The fourth is a return of $94,978.13 from the Capital Project Fund, Bayside, the fiscal year '23 classroom addition project to the Fire Protection Area 1 Fund because that project was canceled. The fifth is a return of $8,303.48 from the Capital Project Fund for the Mill Bay Beach Stairs replacement project to the R&R Fund due to completion of the project. The sixth is a return of $53,699.86 from the Capital Project Fund for the elevator modernization project for Kodiak Island Medical Center to the hospital fund. It would be into the R&R fund due to completion of the project.

The seventh is a transfer of $50,000 from the Solid Waste Collection and Disposal Fund to the Capital Project Fund for the Leechate Lagoon cleanup project. That's the one I mentioned earlier with Tetra Tech. The eighth one is a transfer of $300,000 from the Solid Waste Collection and Disposal Fund to the Capital Project Fund for the landfill municipal solid waste perimeter fence project. I know you've heard a lot about that one. And the ninth one is a transfer of $50,000 from the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center for, um, to a Capital Project Fund Kodiak Fisheries Research HVAC system investigation upgrade project.

Last week, uh, Mayor Griffin asked about the solid waste fund and how much money was in there. So I'm gonna give you a number, but then I'm gonna explain what that is. So don't get excited because there's $2,841,248 in the account, but we owe a $276,750 revenue bond payment. We owe a $999,534 loan payment, and we're required to have a 6-month reserve requirement in that fund, and we're already spending into the reserve amount. So I was afraid if I just said $2.8 million, everyone would be like, oh yay, we're doing really good, and we're doing fine.

But we are not completely upside down, but the fund is still struggling, and so I wanted to give you the additional information to the fund balance. Our finance director, Dora Cross, is here tonight if you have any questions about specific projects.

Great. Thank you. Any questions or discussion?

Okay. Seeing none, roll call vote on the motion.

Mr. Gardner? Yes. Miss Roberts? Yes. Mr. Smiley?

Yes. Mr. Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Whiteside? Yes.

Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Ames? Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote?

Motion passes unanimously. All right, and, um, ordinance number FY 2027-10 is next. Rezoning Cliff Point Estates Oceanfront Edition Number 1, Track B and Track Tract C, Cliff Point Estates Oceanfront Addition Number 3, Tract D from RR-2, Rural Residential 2, District 2C Conservation District. Mr. Whiteside. Move to introduce Ordinance Number FY2027-10 and advance it to public hearing at the next regular meeting of the Assembly.

Second. It's been moved and seconded. Madam Manager. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on Case 27-8 at a its regular meeting on September 16th where the Commission voted 4-0 to forward the recommendation of approval to the Borough Assembly.

As you can see in your map, there are 3 tracts, B, C, and D that are labeled there that the Commission is recommending that we move from RR2 to Conservation. Because of Ms. Roberts' question last week, I also was curious about what the difference between RR2 and Conservation was and I printed it out for Ms. Roberts. So the uses, there are some very specific sizes. R-2 can only go— or is 2 acres, and then conservation can be 5 acres. And I think that is why they were looking to change things, but there won't be a lot of use changes in that area.

Seema knows a lot of information about this, and she happens to be here if you have any questions about this, but otherwise, it will move forward to public hearing in a couple of Any questions or discussion? Okay, seeing none, roll call vote on the motion, please. Ms. Roberts? Yes. Mr. Smiley?

Yes. Mr. Mark Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Whiteside? Yes.

Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Ames? Yes. Mr. Gardner?

Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously. All right.

Now for the fun stuff. We have two items tonight. The first is presentation to outgoing elected officials.

Is this you? Oh, wait. The script says it's me.

Okay. Hold on. I have different things here.

Okay, first up is Bo, because the first one I picked up, you get a goodie bag. No idea what's in there.

And there you go. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Did you want pictures on I'm just gonna roll through them. Can we do all? All of them? Okay, we'll do all of them at the end. Okay, um, Steve— oh my gosh, that looks delicious.

I like it's the pink bag for some gendered reason.

Yeah, bring your little— I took the time to sign. It was so stressful. I did too.

Thank you. All right, you— I'm not that thin.

All right, if you ever need a letter of recommendation, let me know. Up next is the administration of oath of office to newly elected officials, and this one is Borough Clerk Nova Javier. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I will administer the oath of office to the newly elected assembly members. I would like to call Mr. Vizcocho to come up here.

Mr. Scott Arndt and Mr. Alexander Sweeney.

And please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, state your name, Do solemnly swear— Do solemnly swear that I will support and defend—the Constitution of the United States of America; The Constitution of the State of Alaska—and the ordinances of the Kodiak Island Borough—I will honestly faithfully impartially perform my duty to serve all people equally under law. I will honestly, faithfully, and impartially discharge my duties as a member of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly to the best of my ability. Congratulations. Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Certificates there, and I have your oath of office that we need to be signed and make so we can make this show. Thank you.

Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Yes, absolutely.

Go.

You may take your certificates, and then I will see you tomorrow. The duck was like the greatest thing.

Congratulations! Welcome to the party. Work begins. Welcome back. Thank you.

There are goodies in the back. We're, I think, coming to the conclusion of our meeting, so everyone will be invited into into the back and eat some pretzels and cake and fruit. Fruit and vegetables. Oh, those aren't treats. Fruits and vegetables.

Yes. Okay. We have a second opportunity for citizens' comments for those who wish to call in. The local number is 907-486-3231, toll-free 1-855-492-9202.

And please turn off your radio or any listening device to prevent feedback. And for those who wish— in the room wish to speak under Citizens' Comments, please come down to the podium, sign in, turn on the microphone, make sure the green light is on before speaking, and speak directly into the mic. State your name for the record and address all remarks to the Assembly as a body, not to any member thereof. And yeah, that's it. So we'll give a few seconds for anyone calling in.

Your fan gloves, Lee.

All right. Seeing no calls, we will Move into Assemblymember comments. To my left, Mr. Gardner.

To my outgoing colleagues, it's only been a year since I've been on the Assembly. Each one of you has been so valuable in your own way. I'm a little sad to watch you guys go. I'm also excited to see what a new Assembly can do. But I feel like we were just starting to hit our stride.

I learned a lot from each one of you. Each one of you surprised me in many ways, and I'm thankful to have served with you. I'm really bummed to see you go. Congratulations to our incoming officials, new and old. I'm excited to serve with both of you as well, and hopefully we can do great things together.

So thanks, everybody. Have a great night. Thank you. Mr. Vizcocho. Do I have a time limit?

10 Minutes. 10 Minutes. Okay, cool. First up, I want to say thank you to the election volunteers. As Madam Clerk said, Madam Nita and Virgie Poussaint, I know that they've always volunteered every time there's election, so I just want to say thank you to them.

I also want to say, uh, thank you to Madam Clerk, um, Madam Manager, the outgoing Board assembly members, it's, it's— I wish we could have worked longer, but that doesn't mean that even though you guys are not here with us that we still not gonna— we can't work together. So I'm excited for that. And to the returning, the newly elected officials, I'm excited for the work that we're about to do for Kodiak. And again, I just want to congratulate Kodiak High School football 2026 football team for making it to state. Um, I just would like to wish them good luck and to always remember to bring out the pride when you represent Kodiak Bears.

Also, December 19th, Phelam Kodiak Inc. will be having a new inauguration for new officers. Um, Madam VP Ruby Schultz will be stepping in as president for the Phil-Am Kodiak Inc. And you guys are getting an outgoing presidential invitation. So December 19th. And, um, I just want to say thank you to my wife, my kids, my family. Just want to say thank you for your support, for believing in me, and for making sure that I just wish my dad was here.

It's, it's, it's, it's very emotional for me, but like I said to everyone, now the work begins, so I'm very excited for it. So thank you. Thank you. Mr. Smiley, follow that up, please.

No comment.

Well, for the 3 leaving, thank you for your service here. It's sometimes tedious, but it's a useful job, and I really appreciate your efforts. For the new guys, watch out, especially you.

And, uh, I'm kind of upbeat tonight because, uh, while we were away, our son got married, and, uh, that was a lot of fun. So thank everybody. Thank you. Mr. Ames. Um, I'd like to thank the people in the past that have supported me and gave me the honor and privilege to sit up here.

Even though I was not reelected, I will still say somewhat active. I'd like to thank the staff for all the help they've given me whenever I've had questions. And to the incoming people, keep up the good fight. Stand for the community. For the Budget Committee, be sure to add some to your printing Thank you.

That's it. Mr. Whiteside. Thank you. It's kind of interesting being my last assembly member comments here. I'll just start with thanking everyone who supported me initially with their vote.

A lot of people asked me my first month on the job, like, Who are you? Where did you come from? I had been here for years, but I'm really introverted. So you plucked me out of the mountains, off the river, my garden, to come sit up here and serve the community. So I hope, I hope I have served you well and you don't regret your vote.

There are many, many sleepless nights, many difficult decisions, many challenging conversations we've had over the years. I'm very grateful for having the opportunity to do it. It. It's made me a better person. And I've learned from everyone in this room.

So I'll start with our lovely clerks. Thank you for keeping us on task and using appropriate— following the Roberts Rules. And if we started to go off the rails, you brought us back with skill and grace and just kept things flowing very well. Anything we ever need, you're quick to get us the answers. So I'm really appreciative of that because it's a lot of knowledge and you make it look very easy, but there's so much in your— that you bring to us that help guide us, and the new folks are certainly going to benefit from your expertise there.

So thank you so much. Madam Manager, thank you for your leadership for our staff and the amount of transparency you've brought to the borough and our process processes and funding mechanisms and revenue and spending. Everything has just been so much different since you have taken the helm and your wonderful directors and their staff provide such outstanding service to the borough. So thank you. Running out of wind here.

My fellow Assembly members, both past, present, and future, thank you for your service to the community. It is a really, really difficult job. You'll find if you haven't already that it's very gratifying. It's very exhausting, tiring, sad, angering, frustrating, but ultimately it's for our community. So thank you for stepping up and willing to ride that roller coaster of emotion to help those that you care about, which is Kodiak Island.

With that, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Ms. Roberts. Naturally, I just got notification that my computer needs to restart for an update. Um, I just want to take a minute to say thank you to everyone. It's been an honor to serve up here, even if it's just been for a year.

When I walked into the position or got appointed into the position, um, I knew I was going to have to learn a lot, but I didn't realize quite how much I was gonna have to understand how much goes into these decisions that we make up here. I'm really appreciative of all the help that I've had during this process. Uh, to the new assembly members coming in, congratulations. Uh, the first 6 for me, not gonna lie, the past year has been a lot of learning and listening. It's a continuous learning process, and I'm just thankful that everyone had the patience for me.

I think that's one of the biggest takeaways for me, is that there's usually a lot more behind an issue than what's presented on the agenda. And so I really urge new assembly members to do your research, do your homework, be prepared when you come to the meetings, and use your resources. There's a lot of people that know a lot of things, so use that to your advantage. You're here representing the community, so it's only fair to them that you're doing your homework when you come to these meetings. And of course, make the decision you feel is right for the community.

I wish you the best of luck, and I hope that you enjoy your time up here as much as I've enjoyed it the past year.

Um, yeah, I'm grateful for everything that I've learned, even more grateful for the people that I've gotten to work with especially the borough staff. Thanks for answering all my questions, even when I asked for them to be on kindergarten level. Um, and just thanks for everything that you guys do behind the scenes. It's appreciated up here. I'm looking forward to a little bit more family time, but I'm still going to be around and engaged, and I might be making public comment every now and then.

Don't worry. So thank you to everyone for all the support. It's been a great experience. Thank you. Thank you.

Mr. Woods. To our outgoing elected officials, thank you all. You've been great to work with. Uh, your different individual skill sets have been individually valuable up here. Um, never once have I felt, even in the midst of our spiciest discussions, uh, in any way, shape, or form, uh, disrespected or dismissed.

You guys are— and gals— are all absolutely class acts. Um, and you have both my personal liking and my professional respect. Uh, you're great people. Bo, you could use a little bit, you know, you could, you could tweak the fish a little bit, but it's cool. Uh, to our incoming elected officials, uh, thank you guys for stepping up.

I was remarking on how Scott had a pen when he was— his own pen to sign his, uh, election, and I thought, you know, that makes sense. He was there when they were invented.

But no, all jokes aside, and it's an important job, it's an interesting one, and ultimately we're just all people that live here that want to see it do better. So I thank you all. And to borough staff, you guys are awesome. If like I could clone you all, I probably would. Thank you much.

Thank you. I'm going to break the rules because you can't fire me. One more to add. Mayor Griffin, thank you for your role and your leadership to the community. I think you do an exceptional job of framing discussion and having to understand and learn all of our different personality types and our different skill sets and thought processes and taking all of that information and wrangling all of us into a cohesive discussion takes an extraordinary amount of skill, and you have it.

So thank you for that. Thank you for your exceptional service to the community in that you are always engaged in— you're going to different meetings, you're going to different presentations, you're traveling on behalf of the borough, you're juggling all of that on top of an immense professional workload. So thank you. You're a fantastic mayor. Oh, well, thank you, Bo.

We are off next week. The next Assembly work session is scheduled for Thursday, October 29th at 6:30 PM. The next Assembly regular meeting will be held on Thursday, November 5th at 6:30 PM in the Borough Assembly Chambers. And the election is not over, actually. There is going to be more voting, right?

We got one more absentee in-person voting for the upcoming November 3rd, 2026 6th general election will be available from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. starting this coming Monday, October 19th, through Monday, November 2nd, in the Borough Assembly Chambers. One more time, Mr. Whiteside, is there a motion to adjourn? With great sadness, move to adjourn the meeting. Second. It has been moved and seconded.

Roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Smiley. Yes. Mr. Vizcocho. Yes.

Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Eng?

No. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Mr. Roberts? Yes.

Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes. Thank you, everyone. We are adjourned.

Come join us for kitties.

Yeah, yeah, I'll do this for sure. I don't think so.