Kodiak Island Borough Livestream

Okay, I'll call the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting to order. 6:30 PM Thursday, November 5th, 2026. We will begin with an invocation from Captain David Shatto of the Salvation Army.

Let's pray. Dear God, we thank you for bringing us here this evening. We thank you for bringing us close to another holiday season with fun and family and food. And I pray that as the days get shorter, our hearts will be warmer as we experience the joy of our community. Please be with all of the assembly members here tonight and guide them in their decision-making processes.

In Jesus' name, amen. Now 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. Arndt. Here.

Mr. Gardner. Here. Mr. Smiley. Here. Mr. Sweeney.

Here. Mr. Vizcocho. Here. Mr. Woods. Here.

Mayor Griffin. Here. You have a quorum. Okay, next is the approval of the agenda and the consent agenda. The consent agenda this week includes the regular meeting minutes of October 15th, 2026.

Is there a motion? Mr. Smiley. Move to approve the agenda and consent agenda. Second. It's been moved and seconded.

Roll call vote on the motion to approve the agenda and the consent agenda. Mr. Arndt. Yes. Mr. Gardner. Yes.

Mr. Smiley. Yes. Mr. Sweeney. Yes. Mr. Mark Vizcocho.

Yes. Mr. Woods. Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously.

Okay, now on to citizens' comments. There are two designated citizens' comments periods, one at the beginning, 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 two public hearing items for tonight, Ordinance Number FY 2027-01A and Ordinance Number FY 2027-10. Comments for these items will be heard when the items are called during the public hearing, and so 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, toll-free 1-855-492-9202, and please turn off your radio or any listening device to prevent feedback. For those in the room who wish to speak under Citizens' Comments, please come to the podium and sign in, turn on the microphone, make sure that green light is on before speaking, and speak directly into the microphone. State your name for the record and please address all remarks to the Assembly as a body. And not to any member thereof. So we do have a call.

We'll take Betty up first.

Good evening.

Green light is on, so I think I— all right, I'm Betty Walters, and I'm here tonight to speak for the board of the senior center. We usually do, for those who are newer to the group, a quarterly report to let you know how we stand in the use of the money that you give to us. And we realize times are short and maybe this might not be the best year, but this is what we've been doing.

They would say that there's more than 3 minutes that I could talk up here, but I'm going to try to keep it to July, August, and September, perhaps. We've done the usual things. We've had, um, 300 seniors served, uh, 2,065 congregate meals, 182 seniors home-delivered meals, curbside meals, any way you would like something for $10 if you can afford $10. Now, if you're not a member, then it's going to cost you $20, but if you show up I'll try to— if I'm there, I'll buy you lunch. Anyway, the interesting thing is that we had a group, 3 of us today, 4, 3 or 4 of us at Safeway when all the lights went out.

And so while we were trying to get members to know more of what we do and to let those who aren't members sign up and pay their $25 or so. We were left in the dark. It was fun though. We had a great time. And we helped the Safeway staff keep people from coming in or from leaving until they got their pieces that they were trying to buy settled.

So we served a purpose in the community today. What I will tell you is that tomorrow is fish and chips. Everybody loves fish and chips. And it's also what they call the fall forum. So we listen to what people who come for lunch or visit have to say about the senior center.

They can make comments, they can ask questions, they can give us some examples of things that they'd like to see us do. And typically, if it's a reasonable suggestion, we'll try it once, and if people like it, it's something that might go on and on and on. And I have 33, 32, 31 seconds left, so thank you very much for what you do. And anytime you want to come to the senior center, if you let me know that you're there, I'll buy you lunch. Thanks.

Thank you. And we have a call.

You are now answering a call from the queue. Good evening, thank you for calling the assembly. Please state your name for the record. Yes, I can. My name is Nicole Baker, and then I can just start.

Go ahead, Nicole. Yeah, okay, so my name is Nicole Baker. I'm the former owner of Net Your Problem LLC, which was a for-profit business, and I am now the executive director of the Net Your Problem Foundation. So that is a 501 certified nonprofit. We have a different organizational structure, but the exact same mission.

And the reason that I converted my business to a nonprofit in February of this year was after receiving feedback from the Bristol Bay Borough that it was difficult for municipal governments to work with for-profit companies, even ones such as mine that were providing a valuable service to the community. And we do the same here in Kodiak. Since 2018, we have kept 183 metric tons of nets and lines out of the landfill. In the executive summary of the updated solid waste management plan, it mentions that KIB partners with Net Your Problem on net recycling efforts, but we do not have any formal agreement, and that is what I would like to propose or suggest this evening. I think it is necessary to keep our services open and available to vessel owners in Kodiak Island, which ultimately saves space in the landfill and benefits the borough.

This request is not unprecedented. Threshold Recycling receives over $300,000 per year as of 2022 for providing cardboard recycling to the community, and they have a target of collecting 650 tons per year. This works out to $461 per ton, and I would respectfully request something similar. In Appendix S of the waste management plan, there is a table that shows the weight of nets that are dropped off at the landfill. It's an average of 50 tons per year.

So $461 times 50 tons equals a contract of about $23,000 a year. Which is basically what I pay per year for my storage yard on Kodiak Island. And I have visited recently a new recycling facility in Vietnam that would pay for the shipping costs from Kodiak. So between the two revenue streams, I believe we could keep the recycling going in perpetuity and help the borough make progress towards the recommendation of reducing landfill disposal of nets by 50% by 2035.

Did we lose you, or was that all? I'm so sorry, Ms. Baker. No, I'm here still. Or was that all? I'm so sorry, Ms. Baker.

All right, well, thank you for your comments.

Are you calling?

Okay. All right. Do we have any other calls?

Okay. We will take this call, Sandra. Sure.

You are now answering a call from McHugh. You are now answering a call from—. Kurt Froning. Thank you for calling the assembly. Please state your name for the record.

My name is Kurt Froning.

Go ahead, Kurt.

Mayor and assembly members, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Kurt Froning. I'm calling in representation of Alaska Waste. And tonight you are considering a contract for the solid waste collection services in Kodiak. At its core, this proposal is about protecting the long-term reliability and sustainability of Kodiak Island's waste collection service.

Waste collection is an essential service. Residents and businesses expect dependable service regardless of weather, staffing challenges, equipment issues, or the logistical realities of operating on an island. The cost of providing that service has changed significantly. Since 2020, inflation has increased approximately 26%, while our contract rates have increased only about 11%. Fuel alone has increased approximately 59%, along with significant increases in labor, equipment maintenance, insurance, transportation, and Kodiak's already high disposal costs.

Our proposal addresses those realities responsibly while allowing us to continue investing in our employees, safe equipment, preventative maintenance, and reliable service. It also creates a fairer and more transparent commercial rate structure. Rather than spreading disposal costs across customers using average methodology, costs would be tied more directly to container size and collection frequency. The principle is simple. Customers who use less capacity should pay less of the cost, and customers who use more should carry more of it.

That reduces cross-subsidization and creates a structure that is easier to understand and more equitable. We recognize that any rate adjustment affects families and businesses, and we take that seriously. This proposal is not simply about higher rates. It is about ensuring Kodiak continues to have the safe, dependable waste collection service it expects. We're proud to serve Kodiak Island and want to remain a strong partner to this community.

We believe this proposal is fair, more transparent, and puts Kodiak's waste collection system on a sustainable foundation for the future. We respectfully ask for your support. Thank you. Thank you, Curt.

Hello, Assembly. Hello, Miss Manager. Hello, clerks. Hello, audience. My name is Sandra West.

And I'm so excited to be here because I love trash.

Who doesn't? Thank you. That's right. So it's good to hear everybody here talking about trash and recycling. I've said this before and I'll say it again.

Recycling saves everybody money. Recycling saves everybody money. Cardboard is valuable. Aluminum cans can be recycled to another aluminum can. So I'm in favor of all these things.

Also in favor of the senior center. I'm glad that Betty was here. I've been to chair yoga. I've had lunch there. It's a great place.

Just that's all I wanted to say. Oh, no, I want to say one more thing. Go Kodiak! Go voter turnout across America. I'm very, very excited.

Good job, everybody. Very proud of this community and this country for showing up to vote.

Yeah, I'm very proud to be in America. I was like, it was so exciting. So many people showing up. Rare, there were lines. Awesome.

Good job, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Sandra. Anyone else? Any other calls?

All right, thank you, everyone. We'll move into awards and presentations. I have a proclamation here to read, proclamation supporting Operation Greenlight for Veterans.

Whereas the residents of Kodiak Island Borough have great respect, admiration, and the utmost gratitude for all the men and women who have selflessly served our country and this community in the armed forces, and whereas the contributions and sacrifices of those who served in the armed forces have been vital in maintaining the freedoms and way of life enjoyed by our citizens And whereas Kodiak Island Borough seeks to honor individuals who have made countless sacrifices for freedom by placing themselves in harm's way for the good of all. And whereas veterans continue to serve our community in the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, religious groups, civil service, and by functioning as county veterans service officers in 29 states to help fellow former service members access more than $52 billion in federal health, disability, and compensation benefits each year. And whereas approximately 200,000 service members transition to civilian communities annually, and active military service members transitioning from military service are at a high risk for suicide during their first year after military service. And whereas the National Association of Counties encourages all counties, parishes, and boroughs to recognize Operation Green Light for Veterans. And whereas Kodiak Island Borough appreciates the sacrifices of our United States military personnel and believe specific recognition should be granted.

Now therefore be it resolved that I, Jared Griffin, Mayor of the Kodiak Island Borough, in observance of Operation Green Light, do hereby declare November 4th through 11th, 2026, as a time to salute and honor the service and sacrifices of those transitioning from active service, and I encourage the community members to recognize the importance of honoring all those who made immeasurable sacrifices to preserve our freedom by displaying a green light in a window of their place of business or residence.

And I will hand this proclamation to Manager Aimee Williams.

Wearing a green sweater.

If you are of military service, would you please stand for a second? You.

Yoo-hoo. So I'm very excited to accept this on behalf of veterans. And just as you look across the room, you find out more about people than you knew previously. And so ask people questions. Find out.

We have some really interesting military history here in Kodiak. Thank you. We do. Thank you.

OK, up next are committee reports. And I will just go down the line. We might have a few members who have not been assigned to committees yet, but that will be coming in the next couple of weeks. We will give everybody a chance to report. We will begin with Mr. Gardner.

I had Solid Waste Advisory Board last night. That is the only committee I have had recently. They had election of officers. Larry Vandale and Judy Phillips retained their seats as chair and vice chair respectively. Marion Owens was talking about composting and how there's a lot of grants and things out there and she really wants to push that on the community.

If anybody's interested in that, they should reach out to her. Went over their financial report. Um, Kanna Waste Manager was there and she was discussing the grant funding that she's been using to mainly help out villages and reducing scrap metal. Been working on fences at the Port Lions landfill with that grant money as well.

It's been a lot of bear activity, maybe related to ENF doing such a great job at getting the landfill back under control and getting the bears out of there. Apparently the bears are even squeezing the latches on the roll carts to get into them with their teeth, so watch your trash when you can. They've got a new cardboard recycling sort of theme going on over there. They're really trying to push and impress that upon the community. Cardboard can be as much as 19% as of what ends up in the landfill.

And once it's contaminated in there, it has to go to the landfill. It can't be recycled. So it saves everybody money when we recycle our cardboard, keep it out of the landfill, and buy us some extra years out there and save you some money on your property tax. And lastly, Swab wanted more involvement the next time solid waste contracts come up and sort of integrating the advisory board with the contract committee. And I promised that I would mention that.

Great, thank you. Uh, Mr. Smiley? Uh, nothing to report. Okay, I think the other assembly member with committee assignments is Mr. Woods. Any updates?

None for me. All right, uh, thank you everyone. We'll move into our public hearings now. Our first one is 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. Uh, is there a motion?

Mr. Smiley. Move to accept ordinance number FY 2027-01A. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Staff report.

Manager Williams. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. If I may, um, could we correct the motion to state move to adopt. Move to adopt ordinance number FY 2027-01A.

Second.

Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is something that we do several times throughout the year to account for net changes for additional funding requests which occurred during the current fiscal year for items or circumstances not known or planned for during the initial creation of the fiscal year '27 budget. Or project estimates. At the time, we have 9 items that staff is requesting for this cycle.

Uh, number 1 is transferring $210,000 from the general fund to the capital project fund for the long-term care fuels spill closeout project. Number 2 is $28,660 from the capital project fund fisheries economic development project to the general fund for nonprofit funding of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Number 3 is a return of $45,376.90 from the Capital Projects Fund elevator modernizations for Kodiak Middle School project back to Buildings and Ground Fund due to completion of the project. Number 4 is a return of $94,978.13 from the Capital Project Fund Bayside fiscal year '23 classroom addition project back to the Fire Protection Area 1 Fund due to cancellation of the project. Number 5 is a return of $8,303.48 from the capital project fund Mill Bay Beach stairs replacement back to the renewal and replacement fund due to completion of the project.

Number 5 is a return of $53,699.86 from the capital project fund elevator modernizations for Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center project back to the hospital fund, specifically the R&R account, due to completion of the project. A transfer of $50,000— sorry, number 7 is a transfer of $50,000 from the Solid Waste Collection and Disposal to the Capital Project Fund Leachate Lagoon Cleanout Project. That's our project upcoming with Tetra Tech. Number 8 is a transfer of $300,000 from the Solid Waste Collection and Disposal Fund to the Capital Project Fund Landfill Municipal Solid Waste Perimeter Fence Project. And number 9 is a transfer of $50,000 from the Kodiak Station Fisheries Research Center Fund from the Capital Project Fund Kodiak Station Research Center HVAC System Investigation Upgrade Project.

If you happen to have any questions on those, I'm happy to answer. Okay. With that, I will open up public hearing for anyone wishing to make comments on this item. Phone numbers again: 907-486-3231, toll-free 1-855-492-9202. If anyone in the audience would like to speak, Again, come in, sign in, state your name for the record, turn on the microphone before you begin speaking, address all remarks to the assembly as a body and not to any member thereof.

And again, if you are calling in, please turn off any listening devices to prevent feedback. So we will give a few seconds to—. I will nominate you, you nominate me. —For anyone who wants to call in.

OK. Seeing no public comment, I will close public hearing and open it up to Assembly discussion. Any discussion from the Assembly?

Question. All right. Roll call vote on the motion.

We need a second on the question. Second. Oh, I was about to call it anyway.

And I need to take a roll call vote on that. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Mr. Smiley? Yes.

Mr. Sweeney? Mr. Biscocho? Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes.

Mr. Arndt? Yes. Motion carries with a two-thirds vote. Okay, I'm going to do a roll call on the motion to adopt now. Okay, Mr. Smiley?

Yes. Mr. Sweeney? Yes. Mr. Biscocho? Yes.

Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Arndt? Yes. Mr. Gardner?

Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously. Okay. The next ordinance we're looking at FY2027-10 rezoning Cliff Point Estates Oceanfront Edition Number 1 Tract B and Tract C, Cliff Point Estates Oceanfront Addition Number 3, Tract D from R2 Rural Residential II District to C Conservation District.

Mr. Scmiele. Move to adopt Ordinance No. FY2027- 10. Second. Okay, it's been moved and seconded.

Staff report, Manager Williams. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on Case Number 27-008 at its regular meeting on September 16th. The commission voted 4-0 to forward a recommendation of approval to the Borough Assembly. In your packet tonight, you'll have a map with Tracts B, C, and D outlined in red.

The proposal tonight is to change those from RR-2 to Conservation. The Commission recommended approval of this rezone request based on the fact that it is a public necessity, convenience, general welfare, and good zoning practice because the subdivision is an area without public water and sewer and served by a private road which was developed through a previous subdivision approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission pursuant to KBIC 16.40.080, Large Lot Residential Development is Common in Rural Areas Without Access to public facilities such as public water and sewer. These lots will all be above 5 acres, and so Conservation will be the correct zone for those. I'm happy to answer any questions when they come up. Thanks.

All right, thank you. With that, I'll open public hearing again. Again, those numbers are 907-486-3231, toll-free 1-855-492-9202 for anyone who wants to call in and make comments on this ordinance. And those in the audience, come on down, sign in, state your name for the record, turn on the microphone before you begin speaking, address all remarks to the assembly as a body and not to any member thereof. And if you're calling in, please turn off any listening devices to prevent feedback.

And we will hold a few seconds for calls.

Okay. Not seeing any comment, I will go ahead and close public hearing and open this up to Assembly discussion. Any discussion from the dais here?

Okay. With that, roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Sweeney? Yes. Mr. Vizcocho?

Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Arndt? Yes.

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

Motion passes unanimously. All right, and that brings us to the borough manager's report. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, through their solid waste program, completed a landfill inspection on September 1st. A few days ago on November 2nd, we received the results of the inspection.

The landfill received a score of 95.1%, which is an outstanding score. Congrats to all of our staff who work out the landfill. Our, um, Baylor staff and our leachate treatment plant staff do a lot of stuff outside of their normal written job description to make that landfill run, and we're very thankful for that. I also want to mention our ENF support staff, our environmental specialist, IT staff, and ENF director on a successful inspection. It truly takes a village to make the landfill run, so congratulations.

We had union mediation. Results will be discussed during executive session scheduled for November 19th. Current recruiting efforts are GIS analyst for community development. We have 12 applications now. I'm still working on the job description for human resources.

In engineering facilities, I have one applicant for engineering facilities director, one applicant for a project manager, one applicant for a maintenance mechanic, and two applicants for our leachate treatment plant operator. In finance, uh, November 16th, uh, is the deadline for second half payments if you're paying in installments. The full, um, one-time payment deadline has passed, that's October 15th. So we're on to the second half. Please remember that you should get your envelope hand stamped if you're anywhere close to the deadline.

No changes in property assessment and taxation project or online property access. In staffing, there is a new accounting technician for accounts payable that starts on November 12th, next week. So finance is excited for that. In IT, they are— since we've updated to a new service system, they're continuing to strengthen the data backup and disaster recovery capabilities. A special thanks to Fred.

He just texted me, like, as the meeting was started, that our second cable modem is back up. So if you are hot-spotting on your phones in this space, you can go back to the Wi-Fi here. It's working now. Um, they installed new wireless equipment in the maintenance building and the main building as part of the ongoing move to the borough's new firewall network system. They're also setting up secure remote access for employees.

Our GIS analyst position is still vacant, and IT staff is filling the gap. They worked with mapping for liquor license notifications for Safeway, and assisted Community Development with zoning work. And we're still working on a new copier contract with Xerox. In Planning and— in Community Development, the Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a work session on Tuesday, November 10th. They will be reviewing Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of Plan 2045, which is our comprehensive development— or sorry, our comprehensive plan, specifically transportation and mobility and economic development.

In addition, the Commission will have a training session related to the housing crisis and the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which was passed earlier this year. We will not be having a regular meeting on November 18th because there were no cases filed for that meeting date. In assessing, there's no changes to the first couple of items, but an exception updates— the determination letter was sent and we're in a 30-day appeal window with the Kodiak Masonic Temple, and we're still working on the Calvary Baptist in Bells Flats. And no changes to any of our exemption appeals. Again, we get an update every Friday about our Supreme Court case, and so maybe tomorrow is the day.

In engineering facilities, our landfill soil remediation has been— the land farm has been taken apart, and we're waiting for closeout documents. Once we have those documents documents, that project will be complete. For small projects, the, uh, Leachate Treatment Plant citric acid dosing skid replacement was completed yesterday. As soon as we get those closeout documents, that will be complete. KAB, um, the Long Technologies has been on island last week and this week for the main building here.

We ran into the need to remove quite a bit of asbestos in one of the mechanical rooms on the lower level of the building. That's going to be— need to be completed before work can continue on our— this automation system. And for Long Technologies, they're here this week, they're going to come back at the beginning of next week. That should be— wrap up the work to that facility. For the bear fence at the landfill, we've moved the perimeter fence close to the maintenance road and we're awaiting another shipment of materials from Defenders of Wildlife.

I know I say this every week, but Cody has been really great in getting supplies from that organization at no cost for shipping or supplies to us. So we're just paying for the installation. So that has been absolutely wonderful for the landfill. Uh, we have one more shipment to come and we'll be able to move the rest of the perimeter fence to the closer to the maintenance road around the leachate treatment plant. The baler has been rebuilt.

The landfill staff completed, um, last week and it made it bale at the end of the week last week, and solid waste is being delivered back to the bailer building. No more loose fill, which is always a cleaner operation than the loose fill way. So congratulations and thank you to the bailer staff for their work in doing that. We were able to go out and watch a couple of days just where they're at and all the work that goes into that, and that was— that's quite a project. For designs, the only things that we're changing is we're expecting the 95% uh, design for the automatic transfer switches.

We're supposed to have it by tomorrow. That will go to the ARB next. We have some incompatibility issues with the, um, reverse osmosis and steam generation system at the hospital. That project is paused until we can figure out the right equipment. And, uh, the Leech Lake dredging, that is one of the projects that we just passed to the $50,000 transfer for.

The leachate lagoon, um, if you haven't been out the landfill, the leachate comes from where all the solid waste is and the fluid just flows into a large lagoon, and there is a pretty good amount of sludge at the bottom of that. And we have some calcium issues and we have some other, um, issues we have when we're testing the leachate that's coming out of the leachate treatment plant. I think that it's so concentrated in there, no one can remember if that is ever been cleaned, so we're going to clean that out so we have less concentration going into the plant. Uh, no changes in upcoming contracts, and for upcoming meetings, we'll have a maintenance meeting with KIBSD, uh, scheduled for November 17th. ARB will be getting together sometime at the end of November, and HFAB will be scheduled after the new assembly members have been assigned to the committee, um, with Cody's resignation, I will be the only person, and plus the person from Providence that will be there until we get new— it would be me and Mr. Smiley and a Providence person, so we won't ever be able to make quorum.

So we're waiting for new people to get assigned to that. And that's all I have for the manager's report, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Any questions for the manager tonight?

All right, thanks, Amy. Next, messages from the Borough Mayor. Just a few small things. They just want to congratulate the Chamber on another great Halloween downtown trick-or-treat. It was— it's always fun and always neat.

A couple of things for the Assembly. We are in the beginning stages of planning some joint work sessions with the City and the the school board. So as you think of things that you want to discuss with the city and with the school board, let me and/or your future DPO know, and we can start— we'll have an agenda setting session with them at some point to put, to put those meetings together. But go ahead and start thinking about those things now that you want to discuss so we can get them on there. And then thanks again, yes, for your committee recommendation forms.

I will get on those this weekend so we can fill out these committees. And then just another little plug for AML. If you can make it, that would be great, especially the new elected officers trainings. I will be there pretty much all week. There is a Conference of Mayors session on Monday about defense-serving communities.

So I will be a part of that. And then I'll be on a panel, I think that first day, I think on Wednesday, about, about defense communities. And I'm on there to talk about the aerospace developments here in Kodiak Island. But I will be in Anchorage then all week.

Okay. All right. Moving on. New business tonight is election of the deputy presiding officer. Madam Clerk.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the assembly. The assembly shall annually at the November meeting elect from its members a deputy presiding officer to serve at the assembly's pleasure. The duties of the DPO includes presiding as the chair at assembly meetings in the absence of the mayor, attend agenda setting, and perform other duties as assigned by the the mayor and assembly. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you, Nova.

They also— part of those other duties as assigned is heading up the personnel reviews of the manager and the clerk and organizing that process.

I've served as the DPO. It's an important position. I encourage you to think about it more, again, more simply choosing someone to chair the meetings when, when I'm not here. They play, I think, a very important role in the working relationship with the borough manager, particularly in agenda setting. So that means, I think, that the person that you select should be somebody that you trust to represent the perspectives of the entire assembly, including perspectives that you may not personally share.

So, think about, you know, their judgment and their fairness, their availability, their ability to communicate effectively, and, you know, capable of exercising the chair's authority without, you know, without compromising, right, the public confidence in the process. So, running meetings is quite a skill. It's quite a skill.

And, you know, so it's not necessarily about seniority or popularity or who agrees with whom the most often, but it really is about someone who can earn and maintain the confidence of you guys, of the assembly, and help us function effectively. So with that, if there aren't any questions for the clerk, Then I will open the floor for nominations.

Mr. Sweeney. I would like to move to nominate Assemblymember Jeremiah Gardner as Deputy Presiding Officer.

I will move to nominate— Hold on. Let me recognize you so the people who are listening. Mr. Gardner. I move to nominate Mr. Smiley for Deputy Presiding Officer.

Mr. Vizcocho. Move to nominate Scott Arndt as the Deputy Presiding Officer.

Okay. Any other nominations? Okay. If there are none, then nominations are closed, and I think the Clerk will distribute some ballots. Slips for you and collect them.

And Mr. Mayor, I would like to ask if it's okay for Assemblymember Woods to just text me his vote. That is okay with me if I see some consensus with the assembly. I think that's fine. There are an even number. If this is a tie, I am not going to break a tie, so y'all will have to figure it out.

Just letting you know.

Right now we do not have a majority, um, so I have Scott Arndt 3, Gardner 2, Scott Smiley 1. So our rule says that we're going to drop the, um, the one vote, so we're going to start over. Um, and Bigger ones. Bigger ones.

Where's my cell phone? It's right there.

Mr. Mayor, we have a 3-3 vote, which the code says that you will be breaking the tie in case of a In case of a tie, you need to break the tie. I can't refuse. I can't go back and make them figure it out. Would you like to try one more time? It's up to the assembly.

I would like them to try one more time because I think this is your representative. It should not be decided really, I think, by the Mayor. So I think— yeah.

I'm just gonna have to pick your tires, bud.

It's still a 3-3. Do you want to have a candidate statement?

Yeah, I was maybe going to let them make their pitches, so we will just start here to my left with Mr. Gardner, then we will go to Mr. Arndt. Let's see, I have been here for a year now, so I know Mr. Arndt has more experienced than me. If I'm being perfectly honest, I lean on him frequently to learn and discuss and bounce ideas off of, and wouldn't be upset if he became the DPO. And so I don't have a problem with that. I think where my skill lies that his does not is in mediating in this room a little bit better.

Even though I know he has more experience, but I'd be happy to have him and I'd be happy to be your representative and do the job as well. I don't think we go wrong either way, in my opinion. Thank you. Mr. Arndt.

Thank you. Basically, yes, I do have more experience at it, having been the Deputy Presiding Officer multiple times and being the mayor on there. And I think at this time right now with the number of new people that we will have on the assembly, that I think that experience will come in handy with working with them and helping mentor them in coming in for over the course of the next year, and then that makes it easier for them. Down the road. So thank you.

That's all I got. Thanks to both of you. Yeah, I think there's a— I learned when I was DPO, I learned a lot as a Deputy Presiding Officer. And so it's a really good opportunity to learn and to get that mentoring even as a DPO. I think that's really, really valuable.

I think I also— something else to consider, I think, is think carefully about potential conflicts, potential conflicts of interest. We all bring our professional and personal interests to public service, and that's part of what makes local government representative. But if— but if there is a deputy presiding officer who might frequently need to recuse themselves from important matters, they may have difficulty fulfilling the responsibilities of that position, particularly when presiding over meetings or even participating in discussions with the manager. So, I wanted to make that note also. So, we will give this— One more go, and if not, then I will fulfill my legal duty and break the tie.

It is still a tie. Still a tie. All right. I will be throwing my vote to Mr. Gardner. Okay.

So, Mr. Gardner, congratulations.

Anything else that we need to do on this item?

That would be it, Mr. Mayor and members of the assembly. Thank you. All right. And thank you for everyone who nominated and accepted those nominations.

We are moving on to contracts now. Our first contract, and it's a big one, contract number FY2027-03, solid waste collection contract with Waste Connections of Alaska Incorporated, doing business as Alaska Waste. Mr. Gardner. Move to authorize the borough manager to execute contract number FY 2027-03, solid waste collection contract with Waste Connections of Alaska Incorporated, doing business as Alaska Waste. Second.

It's been moved and seconded. Uh, Madam Manager. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The current solid waste, uh, collection contract is scheduled to expire on June 30th, 2027, and if you've been following along, you know that we've put in a lot of work to get ready for this. Back in February, we changed our code to be updated, um, to start on June 30th, 2027, to align with this contract, um, so that when we put out the request for proposals, they would use what the new code will be when the contract starts instead of the old code or current code.

In your packet tonight, you'll see there is the red line, blue line version. It's actually in there twice, so if you did go read through all of that, you'll see that it's in there. A couple of different times. We did do a request for proposals that was issued on June 28th. We advertised for 3 weeks in accordance with our code.

We had a pre-proposal meeting that we held on June 30th with one prospective proposer in attendance. Proposals were due on August 4th, and the borough received one proposal from Waste Connections of Alaska, doing business as Alaska Waste. An evaluation committee consisting of staff, members of the Solid Waste Contract committee, members of the Solid Waste Advisory Board, and representatives from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reviewed the proposal. Evaluation materials were distributed electronically, and submitted scores were compiled and averaged by the projects office. As the sole proposer, Waste Connections of Alaska received the highest overall evaluation score and was deemed both responsive and qualified.

Following the evaluation process, the borough entered into discussions and negotiations with Alaska Waste on September 10th to review contract terms and pricing. The resulting contract has been finalized and is presented to the assembly for review and approval. Tonight in public comment, you heard from Kurt Froning, who is a part of Waste Connections or Alaska Waste, um, up from Anchorage. Um, and he comes down and meets with us every once in a while and meets with his team. So I know Kurt, and then we have, um, David in the room back there.

If you happen to have any specific questions for Alaska Waste, I'm sure he'd be happy to answer them as well. Attached to your packet tonight, you have links to bid postings for the contract RFP that went out. You have the code changes, and you have a link to our current contract. You have their proposal cover page. The actual contract doesn't actually start until you get to page 46.

A lot of Alaska Waste Company information and staff information. There's an executive summary that's on page 79 and 80. And there was a couple of questions I got asked today that I'm just gonna give you the answer to in a whole. On that executive summary, I was asked about bulky item pickup and what that means, and that's an on-call service. So if you are in an area with roll carts and you have a bulky item to get picked up, you can call Alaska Waste and they'll come get them.

That's what that fee is for. And I was asked about if businesses can have roll carts just like they do in the current contract, and the answer to that is yes as well. Businesses have the option depending on their waste stream. So if you're creating 4 yards of trash, you can't have a 2-yard dumpster. If you're creating 2 yards of trash, you can't have 2 roll carts.

So you have to have containers that are equivalent to your waste stream. And, you know, that sometimes changes seasonally, or you might have a bad week or whatever, but Alaska Waste works with businesses to make sure that their container size and their pickup frequency matches the waste stream that they're producing.

This is a big one. I'm happy to answer questions that you might have. Thank you, Aimee, and thank you, David, for being here tonight. Any Questions or discussion about the contract? Mr. Gardner.

Not so much questions that I don't already know the answer to, but more statements to make. Manager Williams, can you confirm that the lock bar rental was taken out of the contract? It was, yes. So we were able to successfully negotiate a couple of things. One of them was lock bar rental fee.

Alaska Waste has a lot of folks with lock bars and they just break all the time, and so they have to go out and fix them. And so their way to cover that expense was a lock bar rental fee, but we asked them to only charge if the lock bar was broken instead of the rental fee. So that was changed and that was removed. And then the other thing that we have changed, and it says it in the text of the contract but it hasn't been updated in Appendix A, A, but we will update that in Appendix A before we sign it. Um, we have 24 roll-offs around the community for residents to do self-haul, like out in the Flats or on Woodland Drive.

I'm sure you've seen them. Dark Lake, we talk about them all the time. Um, we— in the contract original, it was 41 included, and we renegotiated that to 45 because the 41 was a number that was created if those were always full, and they're not always full. We can't get any container 100% full, so we worked with Alaska Waste to come up with a different number, and we landed on 45. So those are the two things that we successfully changed.

And I think with Alaska Waste, they're obviously— they've been our contractor for the last several years, and they're very familiar with our needs, easy to get a hold of. We have transferred some of the disputes that come to us, to them, and made things easier to clarify. We have a lot of problems with mixed loads from contractors coming in. Alaska Waste will come pick it up, it'll get all the way out to the Baylor Building, or the scales, and our— it would be nice if it was just construction stuff and we could just take it over to the C&D cell, but as soon as you look in it and there's a bunch of household waste and other kinds of garbage, it can't go in that cell. That's part And that's part of the reason we got 95.1% on our inspection is because we don't allow that stuff.

And so then it's like, whose responsibility is it to go through that? And we want it just to go back to the person who made the container and it's their job to separate it. But then Alaska Waste would then have to have the fuel, the expense, and the time to bring it all the way back. So you'll see a fee in that for there now so that they know they have to— they're going to pay Alaska Waste an extra $500 if it's undeliverable and they have to haul it all the way back to them to be sorted. So we've taken a lot of the problems that we had in the first contract.

And like, I would be remiss if I didn't say Patricia Valerio like 15 times in this description, because Patricia really, um, did a lot of work getting the second amendment to our current contract ready. And unfortunately, that just didn't The stars didn't align and that didn't pass, but a lot of that work and a lot of those changes came from issues that we had with the first contract where it was a definition of a multi-use or multi-purpose building. Um, it could be a lot of different things that were happening, that customer complaints that we got, just things that didn't work that we added to that second amendment. So that whole world of work was done and ready for that RFP. Patricia Valerio.

Um, yeah, so I mean, she really did— she was the, the workhorse behind this, and I feel bad that she's not working for us, so she gets to see this come to completion, but we really owe her a lot. I texted her tonight before the meeting just to ask her one last question, you know, before it came. So, um, luckily that is indexed and that code was changed in advance, and I'm really proud of the team for how much work they did. The fact that we had a solid waste contract committee along for the ride. Unfortunately, Mr. Smiley is the only one remaining from that work, but happy to still have him.

Fish and Game came in and helped us with our bear containers. We talked about changing the bear-aware areas on which areas had roll carts and what it would mean if we altered that more, if we needed different kinds of roll carts. Our bears are smart, as you heard tonight, using their teeth to open those containers. Yeah, that's— they use their claws to push the pushpins up in the flats on our containers. They're smart.

So we're thankful that we have people that can go clean up their messes and continue to teach humans how to behave.

A couple other things. I was pleasantly surprised to see a real gentle increase on the residential rates, but I was a little shocked at the commercial rates. Seemed like a pretty giant leap. And then these statements really are more for the community. We don't have much of a choice by not having another bidder on this contract, and we need a solid waste collection anyways.

I started thinking about these commercial rates And then I started thinking about items in my own store that have gone up 30, 40%. It's completely out of control. And I filled up my diesel truck the other night for $200. And my diesel truck is much smaller than the truck being used to haul this stuff. And to remind the community that you can save yourself a lot of money if you recycle and you take care of as much of your own waste as you can, to remind business owners you can work a little harder and move those roll carts around instead of renting a dumpster.

Um, everybody's feeling the costs rise intensely right now, but I'm not sure we have much choice. I'm not really, really happy about it, but I do hope that we have a culture of community with our contractor, and if we're able to save some money on this down the road and they find that we're spending less because the community is recycling, then hopefully Alaska Waste would reciprocate. But yeah, that's just stuff I wanted to state for the record. Thank you. Mr. Smiley.

Well, I was on the Solid Waste Contract Committee and it was an interesting sequence of events, I think there's a great deal of collaboration on that right from the beginning. I think that people wanted to solve problems in the way that would be most beneficial for both parties, or all parties, I guess. Then in the end with Alaska Waste, since they were the only ones doing this.

Hats off to them for being so cooperative and understanding with our gripes and moans and bitches about things and trying to solve the problems that we had. And Fish and Game was in there pretty well too. So it was a really good experience. Thank you. Anyone else?

Mr. Arndt. As the manager Aimee said, I'd like to also shout out to Patricia Valerio. Worked with her over the years on, on the frustrations with the contract and some of the language that we weren't able to get through with an amendment and had to be dealt with here tonight. So thank you, Patricia. Take care.

Best wishes. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else?

Okay, seeing none, roll call vote on the motion. Mr. Vizcocho. Yes. Mr. Woods. Yes.

Mr. Arndt. Yes. Mr. Gardner. Yes. Mr. Smiley.

Yes. Mr. Sweeney. Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously.

Okay, our next contract is contract number FY 2027-17, change order number 1 and 2. 2 For the KFRC BAS and sensor replacement with Long Technologies Incorporated. Mr. Gardner. Move to authorize the borough manager to execute contract number FY2027-17, change orders number 1 and number 2 for additional hardware and labor hours for the KFRC BAS and sensor replacement. Second.

It's been moved and seconded. Staff report, Manager Williams. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The The borough awarded Contract 27-17 on August 10th of this year. Since that time, the contractor has ordered materials needed for the project and coordinated with KAB for a project schedule.

During a site visit, Long Technologies was informed for the need for confined space training, adding an additional 8 years of labor to the project. Yes, labor to the project. During the site visit, it was also noted that the mounting brackets would be needed after initially not anticipating the need for them. Project staff evaluated the requests and asked for them to be two separate change orders to better verify how much the additional cost would be. Change order number one is for the cost of the mounting brackets, and due to the sensor design, only one manufacturer is able to provide the materials.

Change order number two is for the additional 8 hours of labor that went towards confined space training. The proposed change order costs total at $6,337.93. $1,044. And because this total amount represents a 26.33% increase over the original contract, borough code requires that the change orders are approved by the borough assembly. All right.

Thank you. Any questions or discussion from the assembly on this contract?

Okay. Roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Woods.

Mr. Woods. Mr. Arndt. Yes. Mr. Gardner.

No. Mr. Smiley. Yes. Mr. Sweeney. Yes.

Mr. Mark Vizcocho. Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion carries 5 yes, 1 no. All right, our final— our final contract to consider tonight is contract number FY 2020-21.

-39, Landfill after-hours bear management services with Wildlife Safety Services. Mr. Gardner, move to authorize the borough manager to execute contract number FY 2027-39, landfill after-hours bear management services with Wildlife Safety Services. Second. It's been moved and seconded.

Staff report, Manager Williams. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. In our notice of violation that we received from ADC in August, one of the requirements was that we hire a professional hazing organization for non-operational hours at the landfill. Since that time, early last week actually, ADAC has postponed that requirement. They think that that is something that we still might need in the spring.

In accordance with procurement rules in the state of Alaska, in order to reissue this proposal— and I, I think we would want something very close to this— we would have to make a substantial change if we just canceled it. So I wanted to come to the assembly so the assembly could vote it down so that we could possibly reissue it in spring if we had to. I think there will be some changes. I, um, it's going to depend— all of our enforcement action depends on bear activity and how the bears are acting in the spring. We want to have this tool in our toolkit in case we need it.

So I'm asking you to actually vote no on this to preserve our ability to reissue it in the spring. Yes, thank you. I agree. Any, any questions or discussion on what the manager is asking us to do tonight?

Okay, seeing none, roll call vote on the motion. Mr. Arndt? No. Mr. Gardner? No.

Mr. Smiley? No. Mr. Sweeney? No. Mr. Vizcocho?

No. Mr. Woods? No. Motion failed, 6 nos, 0 yes. Okay, thank you everyone.

Um, one resolution tonight, Resolution Number FY 2027-08, Resolution of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and the Kodiak City Council rescinding Borough Resolution Number FY 2000-38 and City Resolution 07-17 officially dissolving the Joint Kodiak Fisheries Advisory Committee. Mr. Gardner, move to adopt Resolution Number FY 2027-08. Second. It's been moved and seconded.

Madam Clerk. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the assembly. This committee was originally formed in 2007, and it was jointly established by the borough and city. The Kodiak Chamber of Commerce previously managed, staffed, and provided operational support. And in March 20, 2014, the borough formally terminated their partnership with the chamber, so the committee lost its administrative and staffing support.

So this board has not met, or this This committee has not met since December 6, 2013, which is 13 years ago, and the city also rescinded the resolution, so it's now our turn to rescind so that we can formally remove this board from all the other boards that we maintain. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you you may have. Great. Any questions for the clerk?

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

Mr. Scott Smiley? Yes. Mr. Sweeney? Yes.

Mr. Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Arndt?

Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously. All right. Thank you, everyone.

And our final item tonight is consideration of waiving attorney-client privilege for legal opinion regarding assembly eligibility and personal services contract. All right. Move to waive the confidentiality of the attorney-client privilege legal opinion relating to assembly eligibility and personal services contract. Second. It's been moved and seconded.

Staff report, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the assembly. The assembly, uh, this is for the assembly to consider whether to waive attorney-client privilege to publicly release a confidential written legal opinion from outside counsel Lande Bennett Bloomstein. The legal opinion addresses the election eligibility of candidate Jeremy Jerry Williamson in relation to active municipal service contracts held by Aimee Maintenance under Kodiak Island Borough Code 2.35015. Because attorney-client privilege materials cannot be released without assembly authorization, a majority vote of the assembly is required should the body choose to release the legal opinion to the public.

Upon approval, copies of the opinion will be included in the meeting packet for tonight's meeting. Individuals may obtain copies by contacting the Borough Clerk's Office. So if you waive the confidentiality, we will attach the, the opinion, the public version, to the packet tonight so it will be available to the public. And then I also have copies here available for the public. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Great, thank you. Um Yeah, so the question is just about waiving the confidentiality. It's not really about the— we're not being asked tonight to determine eligibility or to reconsider the election or to substitute our judgment for that of the clerks and the legal counsel. I'm asking you, I put this on the agenda because I'm asking you whether the public, right, should have access to the legal reasoning that informed that decision. I believe transparency is particularly important when the application of our laws affects our democratic representation.

But I also recognize that waiving privilege can have its consequences, too. And so I think members should also consider the Bureau's legal interests as well. But that's really the question to focus on tonight. So with that, I'll open it up for Assembly discussion. Mr. Gardner.

Uh, the legal opinion really didn't sway my, um, thoughts on Mr. Williams. Um, I really wanted him to take his place on this assembly, and when I was digging into it, I'd finally found the subsection in the code that defined what services were. And unfortunately, the way the code is written He's simply not allowed to take office. It's unfortunate. I wanted him up here.

I voted for him. Um, that being said, my job up here isn't to do what I want. It's to do what's right by the community, and in this case, it's following the code. In order to get Mr. Williamson on the assembly in his rightful place, we need to do some housekeeping on the code and that needs to be transparent and before the public. And we need to make sure that we do this right if Mr. Williamson does get up here.

That being said, I see no reason to hold this back, and I think it should absolutely be released and as transparent a process as possible.

Anyone else? Mr. Woods. Yeah, I am strongly opposed to releasing the attorney opinion. It— our deliberations here are absolutely subject to public scrutiny. What we do behind closed doors, especially for something that is as likely to get litigated as this, is really just weakening our position if something does get litigated.

Uh, it can serve no benefit aside from a modicum of transparency, which I really don't feel like that juice is worth to squeeze in this particular instance when it comes to the high likelihood of litigation in this case. We're basically doing opposing counsel's work for them by releasing information.

Okay, thank you. Anyone else?

Mr. Sweeney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll just reiterate some of the thoughts is where we've— we need to go by the rules that have been established, and I think by releasing our findings, that will be a healthy relationship continued with our voting constituents, and transparency is so, so important. So I am supportive of this.

Mr. Vizcocho. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So this has been bothering me for the last 2 weeks just because people spoke— have spoken, and I understand where people are coming from, but also we have rules to follow. And if I had a question, I would want to know the answer, why, to get the answer to the why. And so I am—.

I think transparency would be a good thing for the people to know so that maybe in the future, like Mr. Gardner said, we can do some housekeeping and look at the verbiage much better so that it is more clear, more an understanding.

Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Smiley.

We have to live by the code, and that's what the lawyers say. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Seeing no further comment, roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Smiley? Yes. Mr. Sweeney?

Yes. Mr. Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Woods? No.

Mr. Arndt? Yes. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote?

Motion passes, 5 yes, 1 no. Okay, that brings us to the second opportunity for citizens' comments tonight. For those who wish to call in, the local number is 907-486-3255. 231, Toll-free 1-855-492-9202, and please turn off your radio or any listening device to prevent feedback. For those in the room who wish to speak under citizens' comments, please come to the podium and sign in, turn on the microphone, make sure that green light is on before speaking, and speak directly into the mic.

Please state your name for the record and address all remarks to the Assembly as a body, not to any member thereof. And again, if you are calling in, please turn off any listening devices to prevent feedback. Go ahead. My name is David Edwards. I work for Alaska Waste here locally, and I just wanted to kind of thank the Assembly for their support for the contract and look forward to working with the community for the next 5 years starting in July.

Thank you. Great. Thank you.

Any calls?

All right, then we will start Assembly member comments. We'll start to my left with Mr. Gardner.

Thanks for electing me your DPO. I promise to do my best. And don't worry, Mr. Arndt, you're gonna be a little— I don't know if you'd be the devil or the angel on one of my shoulders, but you'll be there to help mentor me along the way.

And that's really all I got to say. Everybody watch out, we're gonna start seeing some of that black ice on the road, so drive safe, especially in in the morning and at night, and have a great weekend. Mr. Smiley. You may not know whether it's a devil or an angel, but everybody else does.

Thank you. Mr. Vizcocho. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Congratulations to the new DPO, Jeremiah Gardner.

I say this.

I hope you can guide me the same way that Mr. Art had guided you to be a DPO. So I hope to learn more this year from you. And to Mr. Art, thank you for always being there as well.

For next week, I just want to give a big thank you to all veterans that has been fighting for our freedom, and I just want to tell them thank you for giving us this November 11th at the 11th hour to remember what they have done for us, for this country. Also, I want to congrats—. I want to wish good luck to the volleyball team that's at Regents, swimming team at, uh, state, and Kodiak Middle School basketball boys and girls will be going to a tournament next week. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Arndt.

Thank you. Um, last week I tried to expedite a proposed housekeeping on personal service contracts. This week I would like to propose a basically following basic, which would be introduction of the housekeeping rules for the first reading on the November 19th regular meeting, and then a public hearing on December 3rd regular meeting. And that takes at least a second—. Second—.

By the assembly, if not more seconds on there. But I think it needs to—. It needs to be cleaned up. The sooner the better.

So November 19th, that means that we would have it for the work session on the 12th with the introduction on the 19th. Once again, the work session then on December 1st and the regular meeting with the public hearing on December 3rd on there. So that's my request here, and I appreciate support by the Assembly and the Mayor.

Okay. Mr. Sweeney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I— let's see. The Sergeant Creek open house is next week.

That's a big one. It's a great step forward moving on that project, looking at preliminary alternatives. So that's exciting. I wanted to give another shout out to the basketball team, the KMS basketball team. Great tournament.

That was awesome. I really hope that becomes an annual event. That was a lot of fun. Also to the volleyball regionals in Palmer this weekend, wishing them the best of luck. And I think that's all I've got for tonight.

Thank you. Mr. Woods. Not a whole lot for me other than I hope nobody gets the plague I'm currently dealing with. And just wanted to extend my condolences publicly to the Osowski family after the loss of James, who was one of our volunteer firefighters.

Around the 30th. Um, amazing dude, great dude. I worked with him over at KPD when he was a dispatcher there. Uh, massive loss to our community. Thank you.

Um, all borough offices and facilities will be closed to the public on Wednesday, November 11th, 2026, in observance of Veterans Day. The next assembly work session is scheduled for Thursday, November 12th, at 6:30 PM. The next assembly regular meeting will be be held Thursday, November 19th at 6:30 PM in the Borough Assembly Chambers. And with that, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. Mr. Gardner?

Move to adjourn. Second. So moved and seconded. Roll call vote on the motion, please. Mr. Sweeney?

Yes. Mr. Mark Vizcocho? Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes.

Mr. Scott Smiley? Yes.

Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously. Okay, we are adjourned.