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Okay. Good evening, everyone. Like to call to order the Kodiak Island Borough assembly regular meeting. Today is Thursday, June 4, 2026, 6:30pm and we are gathered in the assembly chambers. We will start off with the invocation from Captain David Shadow of the Salvation army.

And we will follow up with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Let's pray. Dear God, thank you for this beautiful day. Thank you for the coming of summer and the greenery and the salmon and all the wonderful things that come in the summertime. I thank you for this assembly. God, I thank you for each person who's giving parts of their lives to serve their community.

And I pray that they will continue to serve this community well with your strength and wisdom and guidance. In Jesus name, amen.

We are gathered on the traditional homeland of the Supiak Alutuk people. And we acknowledge the 10 tribes of the Kodiak Alutuk region. We recognize the aleutic culture that enriches our community to this day. Roll call, please. Madam Clerk.

Mr. Ames. Here. Mr. Gardner. Here. Mr. Johnson.

Here. Ms. Roberts. Here. Mr. Smiley. Here.

Mr. Whiteside. Here. Mr. Woods. Here. Mayor Griffin.

You have a quorum. Next up is the approval of the agenda and consent agenda items on the consent agenda are resolution number FY2026 02B amending resolution number FY2026 02A removing the acceptance of commercial batteries and commercial oil at the Kodiak Island Borough landfill. Resolution number FY2026 17 A joint resolution of the Kodiak Island Borough assembly and City Council appointing two members to the Kodiak Fisheries Development Association Board of directors resolution number FY2027 02 and reestablishing the fees of the Kodiak Island Borough and authorization for the reimbursement to Providence Kodiak Island Medical center for design costs for their air handling Unit one.

Do we have a motion move to. Approve the agenda and the consent agenda? Second Second, if the assembly would entertain this, I am looking to remove or separate or remove from the consent agenda the the last item on the list authorization for the reimbursement to Providence Kodiak Island Medical center for the design cost for their air handler Unit one in agreement. We have consensus. Is that sufficient, Madam Clerk?

Yes, you don't need consensus. Just one member saying that they wanted of consent that will be be taken off the consent agenda and it will be put back on the regular agenda. Great. Thank you. Thank you.

So voice vote on the motion to approve the agenda and consent agenda. All in favor say Aye. All opposed? Same sign.

All right, next item is the approval of the minutes for the regular meeting minutes of May 21, 2026. Mr. Nope, that's what the consent agenda. Great. Moving right along. Up next is Citizens Comments.

There are two designated citizen 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 meeting your public hearing. Excuse me. We have three public hearing items for tonight which are the State of Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, Retail Marijuana Store License, Transfer of Ownership from deja Vu Cannabis Co. To Wildflower Smoky Hollow license number 19658, ordinance number FY202701 and FY202702. Comments for these items will be heard when the agenda when the items are called during public hearing, please wait until we get to that portion of the agenda.

For those who wish to call in, the Local number is 900-748-63231 toll free 855-492-9202. Please turn off your radio or any listening device to prevent feedback. For those in the room who wish to speak under Citizens comment, please come to the podium and Sign in, turn on the microphone, make sure the 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 and not to any member thereof.

Any phone calls to get us started.

Good evening assembly members and Manager. My name is Linda Lance. I am President of the Humane Society of Kodiak. We appreciate the Bureau's support of our organization and greatly appreciate the nonprofit grants that we've received that we've received last year as well as previous years. HSK is contracted by the City of Kodiak to operate the Kodiak Animal Shelter.

We have continued to do so since 1997 and our contract payment covers the following covers our staff wages, cleaning supplies, euthanasia, utilities, which includes oil and electricity and trash and so forth. Shelter maintenance as well as insurance. Funding that we receive ensures that there's a facility and a staff to take care of pets from both inside and outside the city limits. They have a safe place to stay whether they're an impound, a surrender or lost until they are reclaimed or adopted. The HSK has to raise funds through grants and donations to pay for the medical treatment, veterinary care, animal supplies and food.

All animals adopted from the Kodiak Animal Shelter are vaccinated, microchipped, spayed or neutered and are healthy prior to adoption. Since our inception, spayneuter has been the cornerstone of our mission. Being proactive is critical to maintaining a controlled animal population. Kodiak Animal Shelter is able to maintain a no kill shelter for friendly adoptable pets because the pet population is manageable. Unlike many parts of Alaska, HSK provides two spay neuter programs, one for the city residents and one for the borough residents.

HSK contributes to the nonprofit grants through both of those by providing coupons to individuals so that they can have their pets go through the procedure at the vet clinic. Historically, we've had more requests for spaying neuter assistance from borough residents than city residents. In our current fiscal year in which we received $5,000 from the burrow nonprofit grant, it helped pay for a total of 22 pets to be sterilized, totaling $6,688. In fiscal year 25, our borough nonprofit grant covered 35 pets which totaled $8,865. Veterinary care is expensive in Kodiak.

For many, prioritizing monthly bills takes precedence over pet care. We try to help balance those needs by offering spay neuter assistance. HSK provides other community programs which are funded through grants and fundraising activities by our board Our organization strives to help community members and their pets. We couldn't do as much without the support of the Kodiak Island Borough and the nonprofit grants for which we've received. Thank you.

Thank you for that update. Anyone else wish to make a comment? Do you have any callers?

Good evening everyone, members of the Assembly, Happy Summer. My name is Noam Pechter and I work with the Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District and have a few words on their behalf. The Kodiak Island Burrow includes terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems supporting native populations of wild plants, wildlife and fish. Our borough communities rely on cultivated crops, livestock and bountiful subsistence resources for food security and cultural ways of life. The introduction and spread of harmful non native invasive species can significantly damage or or destroy these ecosystems, our economies and traditions.

An educated public is essential and highly effective for early detection and rapid response to control invasive species. The Kodiak Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area, also known as cisma, is seeking to strengthen and broaden its partnership and work cooperatively with stakeholders to protect the Kodiak Archipelago Community is informed about the risk of vigilant against the appearance of and empowered to encounter the threat of invasive species represent a far more cost effective response than spending millions of dollars to contain, suppress or eradicate established infestations. So by striving to prevent, detect, manage and eradicate invasive plants and animals to safeguard Kodiak's unique and valuable resources, we will protect our Alaskan ways of life and the subsistence resource and and practices which have been a part of Archipelago's culture for millennia. The Kodiak Archipelago SISMA would like to recognize June 14th to 20th, 2026 as Kodiak Invasive Species Awareness Week and encourage all residents and visitors to learn more about invasive species in our burrow and directly contribute to maintaining and enhancing the integrity and vitality of Kodiak's ecosystems, economies and communities. Thank you guys.

Thank you for the update.

Good evening, nice to be here tonight and thank you guys for your service to our community. My name is Julie Matthew and I'm here on behalf of the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center. I'm the Alaska Sea Grant General Agent for for our region and my position I do in my position I do many things for our community, including outreach and extension and marine science education. I also do research on harmful algal blooms. I work with the commercial fishing industry.

We're a pretty broad and diverse group of people over at ksmsc. We currently have four faculty members established at ksmsc, three staff and we Routinely have between like one for different fellows, undergraduate or graduate or postgraduate level fellows at our facility. So we keeping things moving over there. And I'm here to thank you and extend our great appreciation for the funds that we have received from the borough for the nonprofit education funds that we've received. We started, we applied for these funds just, we just started in AY23.

So I am here to thank you for this past year and the previous years too. We've really been able to expand our offerings to the community. A lot of the work that we do and especially with these particular funds are geared towards workforce development. There are some of the funds are used for community enrichment like the seafood salmon, the smoked seafood class that we offer. I personally teach the marine safety classes and I know Beau very well through that endeavor.

We both are AMC instructors. But yeah, I want to thank you for the funds. We've had a lot of success with these funds over the last four years. We've trained 112 fish, commercial fishermen or mariners or agency folks that are going out on the sea in the AMC instruction, the drill conductor instruction, cold water marine, marine marine safety. And We've trained approximately 85 people in our seafood programs.

The numbers look different every year. Over the years I've provided reports, I can provide you a comprehensive report at your leisure. But yeah, we've really increased. For example, the first year we had 17 folks go through our seafood program. And then the next year we're able to offer up to 30 scholarships, partial scholarships to our trainings.

So these funds have been really, really impactful to our community. And again, like just from my perspective alone, 112 people that have trained in marine safety that are near and dear to our hearts, that fish out of this community. So I'm proud of that work and I'm really thankful for these funds. They're not even easy to manage all the time and predict exactly how much we need. But I do appreciate that and will be working to hone the requests over the years.

But thank you, thank you for the update.

Anyone else?

All right, move on to the next item on the agenda, which is awards and presentations. I have six several proclamations to issue on behalf of the Kodiak Island Borough. First up is proclamation declaring the month of June. Excuse me, going back up here. Proclaiming the month of June as Filipino American Heritage Month in Kodiak.

And accepting this proclamation.

Bear with me.

Pardon me. Organized here. Accepting the proclamation will be the president of the Filipino American Association, Mr. Mark Viscocho, office of the mayor of Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska would like to declare June as Filipino American Heritage Month in Kodiak. Whereas the Kodiak Island Borough is made up of a wonderful mosaic of culturally diverse people whereas Filipino Americans make vital contributions to the economic, social, political and cultural quality of life in the community and whereas June 12, 2026 marks the 128th anniversary of the Declaration of Philippine Independence Day and whereas this momentous occasion provides an opportunity for all Filipino Americans to share their cultural heritage with people of all races, ethnicities and nationalities and whereas this momentous occasion is essential so that Filipino Americans can continue to reflect the shared values and manifest our joys in harvesting the fruit of such values. And therefore, I, Beau Einsight, on behalf of Mayor Jared Griffin, the Kodiak Island Borough do hereby proclaim the month of June 2026 as Filipino American Heritage Month and Kodiak and urge all citizens to participate in the festivities celebrating the rich heritage and traditions of of the Philippine Islands.

Mr. Viscojo is going to share some words with us. It.

Good evening, Borough assembly members. On behalf of the Filipino American association of Kodiak, I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for this proclamation.

It is a tremendous honor to be recognized in this way and reaffirms the strong ties of our community has built here in Kodiak. The Filipino American community has long contributed to the rich tapestry of Kodiak, bringing culture, traditions and values to the beautiful borough. We are proud of our heritage and we are equally proud to call Kodiak home. This proclamation not only highlights our contribution, but also signifies the unity and diversity that makes our community so vibrant. As we move forward, we remain committed to fostering understanding and collaboration among all residents of Kodiak.

Together we can continue to promote cultural exchange and mutual respect, ensuring that our community thrives for generations to come. Thank you once again for this honor. We look forward to continuing our partnership with the borough and contributing to the prosperity Kodiak. Also this weekend, June 6 and 7, we are hosting a basketball tournament for middle school and high school at the high school gym and middle school gym and also for Sunday, if any of you would like to do some three on three basketball, we have. It'll start at 2 o', clock, but you just need to sign a waiver.

We're also doing a waiver is important, but we also are doing a car wash on June 13, so if your car, rain or shine, bring your car over here at the high school. And also on June 14th we will have a mass over at Saint Mary's and hopefully with other Filipino churches here in the community, we can reach out to them and hopefully they can also do a Mass in commemorating the Filipino American Heritage Month for June. And also we're doing a banquet in celebration of the tournament that we're doing on June 7, and we will have it at the teen center on June 14th. And you guys are always welcome to join us. Thank you.

Thank you, Mark.

Next proclamation is declaring the month of June as Men's Health Month. Whereas, despite advances in medical technology and research, men continue to live an average of 5 years less than women and whereas educating the public and health care providers about the importance of a healthy lifestyle and the early detection of male health problems will help reduce mortality rates from disease and whereas men who are educated about the value of preventive health will be more likely to participate in regular health screenings and whereas fathers who maintain a healthy lifestyle serve as vital role models for their children, leading to happier and healthier families and whereas the Men's Health Network worked with Congress to establish Men's Health Month as a special campaign to educate men, boys and their families about the importance of importance of positive health attitudes and preventative health practices. And whereas Kodiak Men's Health Month will focus on the broad range of men's health issues, including heart disease, diabetes and mental health. And whereas residents of the Kodiak Island Borough are encouraged to increase their awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise and medical checkups. Now, therefore, I, Beau Whitesite, on behalf of Jared Griffin, Mayor of the Kodiak Island Borough, do hereby proclaim June 2026 as Men's Health Month in the Kodiak Island Borough.

And I encourage all residents to pursue preventative health practices and early detection efforts.

Okay. The third proclamation is recognizing June as LGBTQ QIA Pride Month. Whereas Alaska led the way in recognizing equality as important to all Alaskans, was one of the first territories to address discrimination, and passed a first of its kind law in an American territory or state and whereas all are welcome in the Kodiak Island Borough to live, work, play, and every family and individual deserves a place to call home where they are safe, happy and supported by friends and neighbors and whereas the Kodak Island Borough denounces prejudice and discrimination as an affront to our fundamental values and whereas it is imperative that all people in our community, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, feel valued, safe, empowered, accepted and supported by their peers and community leaders and whereas Pride Month serves as an opportunity to celebrate the progress made towards equality and inclusion. Whereas the Kodiak Island Borough strives to actively promote the principles of equality, liberty and justice to all citizens in the community. Now, therefore, I, Beau Whiteside, on behalf of Jared Griffin, Mayor of the Kodak Island Borough, do hereby recognize June 2026 as Pride Month in Kodiak.

I believe we have several options for recipients. We have Stella Rockwell, Dan Mitchell, or Shawna Brecki. Would one of you like to come come up and accept this and share some words with us?

Do you want me to? Why don't you do it?

Sorry, I did not have anything prepared,. But.

On behalf of the LGBTQIA community of Kodiak, I'm grateful to the borough for recognizing this.

There's a lot of. A lot of emotions that come with being part of this community in this day and age. I'll share something. For me, when I first came to Kodiak, I experienced a lot of fear. I didn't know what I was getting into.

I didn't know what community to expect. But what I found was a beautiful community full of wonderful people from all walks of life.

And I couldn't be happy to be here. So I'm grateful to the borough for continuing to support integration because, as you can see, we are part of all walks of Kodiak life in every corner of this community, and I like to believe that we contribute and it's nice to feel valued as part of the community. Thank you.

Next item on the agenda is committee reports. I'll start next to myself here with Mr. Gardner. Only new news to report. I had a Swam Sea meeting this morning at 8:30. There was a lack of a quorum.

Lots of people on Sweet Swamsee are involved in Southwest Alaska fishing and everything is ramping up. So some informal discussion on support for Kodiak's PIDP or PDIP application and a few other financial things for Swamsea, but nothing of any concrete value. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Nothing to report. Mr. Smiley.

We have the Solid Waste contract committee today. We approved the request for proposals that will be sent out sometime soon. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ames.

I was on the solid waste meeting today also, and glad to see that's wrapping up and moving forward. That's all I have. Thank you, Ms. Roberts. Nothing to report. Thank you, Mr. Woods.

Nothing to report. Thank you. Okay, next item in the agenda is public hearing. First. First is State of Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office.

Retail marijuana store license. Transfer of ownership from deja Vu Cannabis Company to Wildflower Smoky Hollow license number 19658.

Do we have a motion move to voice? Non Protest to the transfer of ownership application for the retail marijuana store license from deja Vu Cannabis Company to Wildflower Smokely Hollow, license number 19658. And direct the clerk to notify Amco of this decision. Second. Thank you.

Staff report, Madam clerk. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Presiding Officer and members of the Assembly. This is a transfer of a retail marijuana store license from Deja Vu to Wildflower, Smoky Hollow. And the Clerk's office staff followed the procedures established in code, and we did our investigation. In the beginning, there was one protest from a department, and it was.

Ultimately, it was resolved and it was retracted. So there's no objection on file for this transfer? That's all I have. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Madam Clerk.

With that, we will open the public hearing. Phone number is 907-486-3231. Toll free, 1-855-492-9202. Anyone wish to make a comment, please sign in and state your name for the record. Turn on the microphone before speaking.

Address all remarks to the assembly as a body and not to any member thereof. If calling in, please turn off any listening devices to prevent feedback.

It looks like no comments, so we will close the public hearing and open up for assembly discussion.

Okay. Roll call. Vote on the. On the motion, Please, Madam Clerk. Mr. Ames.

Yes. Mr. Gardner. Yes. Mr. Johnson. Yes.

Ms. Robert. Yes. Mr. Smiley. Yes. Mr. Whiteside.

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

Thank you. Next is ordinance number FY2701. Adopting the budget for fiscal year 20 and appropriating from all borough funds. Move to adopt Ordinance number FY2027 01. Second.

Thank you. Staff report, Madam Manager. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Presiding Officer. This is our annual ordinance for adopting the budget for fiscal year 27 and appropriating from all borough funds. When we introduced this on May 28 at the Special meeting, the budget that was offered for introduction was balanced, meaning that the proposed expenditures did not exceed the anticipated revenues and plan.

Use a fund balance. At that meeting, we changed a couple of important things. One of those things was to add in the estimated salary and benefit increases due to union negotiations and to use 75% of the fiscal year 26 interest earnings from the facility fund. In your packet tonight, you will see, as we normally do, the old numbers in red and crossed out and the new numbers entered indicating the changes in salary. You will also see a change in transfers.

When we change any general fund item and use different sources of money, that transfer is going to change. On Friday, May 29, we sent out the four options that we discussed. And this is where it gets a little bit funky, where I'm going to talk about both ordinances at once, because it just cannot be avoided. But that transfer number you can find in those options, that's where that 799,000 comes from for debt service transfer. So that's if you need reference for that.

I put copies of those four items in front of you there if you have questions about those. But for this ordinance, those numbers are all updated, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have on those changes. Thank you, Madam Manager. With that, we'll open the public hearing. For those that wish to call in, the Phone number is 907-486-3231.

Toll free, 818-554-92-9202. For those in the room, please sign in and state your name for the record. Turn on the microphone before speaking and address all remarks to assembly as a body and not to any member thereof. If calling in, please turn off any listening devices to prevent feedback.

All right, we're going to close the public hearing and open up for assembly discussion.

Mr. Gardiner, is this where we are. Going to choose one of these four options or discuss the mill rate, or is that the next ordinance? That is the next ordinance where we'll set the mill rate. Copy that. Thank you.

Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call vote on the motion, please. Madam Clerk? Mr. Gardner?

Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. Roberts? Yes.

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

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

Thank you. Next is ordinance number FY2027 02, receiving the 2026 Certified Real and personal property tax roll, levying ad valorem property taxes for the tax year 2026, consisting of an area wide tax, Women's Bay fire protection area tax, a Women's Bay road service area tax, a Bayview Road service service area tax, a fire protection service area number one, a Menashka Bay Road service area tax, a tax and Service Area Number 11 Roads, a woodland Acre street life service area, a service area number two tax, an airport fire protection service area, Trinity island street service flight area tax, and a tax in the Mission Lake Tidegate service area, levying a non ad valorem commercial aircraft tax, providing for the collection of taxes due in 2026 and setting the date when taxes become delinquent. Move to adopt Ordinance number FY2027 02. Thank you. Staff report, Madam Manager.

Thank you. Mr. Deputy Presiding Officer, this ordinance acknowledges the receipt of the 2026 Certified Real Property and business property role. It levies our ad valorem and non ad valorem real and personal property taxes for tax year 26, and it sets the dates when taxes become delinquent. This ordinance partners with the annual budget appropriation ordinance that we just passed. This is the ordinance in which we will start looking at those options for the mill rate and find out how we want to deal with the different choices for.

For maptr. And so when we get to that part, I'm happy to answer questions for you. Thank you. And with that, we'll open the public Hearing, local number 907-486-3231, toll free, 1-855-492-9202. For those in the room who wish to speak, please sign in and state your name for the record.

Turn on the microphone before speaking. Address all remarks to the assembly as a body and not to any member thereof. If calling in, please turn off any listening devices to prevent feedback.

Okay, I'm going to close the public hearing and open up for assembly discussion. Mr. Johnson, move to amend the resolution. Sorry, right here. To include a total mill rate of 9.15 and move the remaining $475,981 to fund 201.

Is there a second?

Second. Your second assembly discussion, Mr. Johnson. Thank you. This amendment is about balancing the budget as much as it is about supporting the school district. I think everyone here is well aware of my position on mapter.

I'm not a fan of it. I believe the borough manager's responsibility is to present a balanced budget within the framework provided by the Assembly. The Assembly's role is to then determine if that budget meets the priorities and taxation tolerance of our community. Through partnership and negotiation, a budget is passed. That is the core duty of an elected body.

By relying blindly on maptor, this assembly has abdicated that representative responsibility to a rigid formula. Many of my fellow assembly members have talked recently about negotiation. The original MAPTOR agreement was a negotiation, an exchange of a small, predictable revenue increase for a reliable tax regime. The agreement was that the assembly would abstain from massive volatile tax hikes year to year, and in exchange, take a small, steady percentage increase to stabilize revenue over time. I absolutely can appreciate that logic.

When we built the school district's budget two weeks ago, we didn't wait for the final map to numbers. I argued this was a mistake and tonight shows, in my opinion, why. We know the revenue target we're supposed to collect in accordance with our agreement with the community. Yet the budget before us fails to collect that amount absent with a lower mill rate. While I personally favored his larger school district budget, I deeply appreciate the concerns brought forward by my colleagues.

During our debates, nearly every single member mentioned the critical need to have contingency fund in place for future unknowns. Let's be clear. By failing to collect the full MAPTOR amount tonight, we would be voluntarily eliminating nearly $500,000 in revenue generating capability capacity in next year. I fundamentally agree with the philosophy that if we don't need the taxpayers money, we shouldn't collect it. That's not how the MAPTOR agreement is structured.

If we're going to keep the system intact, we must collect the cap. If any of the economic contingencies that we were worried about at the last meeting actually happen, that $500,000 deficit is permanently wiped off the top of next year's starting baseline. We cannot recover it. The reason I'm advocating these funds go to the school district is simple. My colleagues, for certain that my colleagues felt that certain areas were underfunded.

Those adjustments were made at the last meeting. I can appreciate and respect the decisions that were made. But now we find ourselves with approximately $446,000 remaining that must be budgeted simply to protect the revenue baseline for next year. Because the school district line item was only one reduced by this body. To me, the most logical, logical, impactful place to restore the funding would be back to our schools.

Thank you for your time and I appreciate your consideration. Thank you, Mr. Gardner.

Sorry, I'm going to disagree with my colleague here. Everybody knows I. I would like to see our taxes go lower and lower. I'm going to be in favor of our lowest option on the table here, though I doubt we're going to get get that far. Maybe we can find some kind of compromise in light of the idea of sending that additional revenue to 201 school district or education funding. It came to my attention today that I believe it was Monday.

There was a school board meeting and there is a recording that approximately $900,000 was cut from their budget and they were able to find, quote, unquote, inefficiencies. No positions were cut from the school district and they were able to find that money inside of their budget. I think that we overfunded the school district and again, I'll say it over and over, the borough, the school district and the city all need to tighten their belts. So I definitely would not support this.

Thank you, Mr. Smiley. I'm most worried about next year. And if we don't get the full amount for baptor, then we are. At least there's the threat of problems next year. What we've seen over the past few years is the state winnowing down the amount of money that it gives to various functions, municipalities within the state.

And those have been sometimes pretty extreme. When they failed to support the new high school bond debt. That was a real big one. I don't want to see us without funding and have to cancel and vote Raptor out. So I would prefer to do option C here.

I do think that the idea of cutting taxes has been around since Ronald Reagan. That's 40 goddamn years, pardon my French, that we've been cutting taxes. There's not a whole lot left at the school district. We're not just cutting fat, we're cutting bone. All right?

And this is a big deal for them. I think we need to. I agree with my colleague here that we need to put the excess money into the school district's budget. I think we need to help them out. They're a government that we were created to support and we have failed to do that this year in an.

In the means that we should have done it. In other words, I'm in favor of option C. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Woods. Yeah. I gotta admire Assemblymember Johnston's constancy here.

It's. You have been extremely consistent and I think that is highly admirable and like honestly respectable. I can't support this. I'm much more a fan of option B. I think we need to put some money towards facilities maintenance. I do agree that this.

It's okay. I do think that we overfund the school district to a degree. I don't think it needs to be as drastic as what some of the proposals were. However, that's just kind of where after listening to the testimony given by a wide number of people talking to shareholders, this is where I'm going to fall. Thank you, Mr. Ames.

I just like raising it the full 9.15 as assembly member Jeremiah said he want he was in favor of A, but realized there would probably be a compromise. And I think we are going to have to have a compromise somewhere between A and C. I am. That leaves choices B and D. And I would be in favor of B. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Johnson.

I just wanted to offer a point of clarification on my proposal. It doesn't take any money whatsoever from any account. Everything we funded last week remains in place. All this does is is collect the amount of revenue authorized by the borough to collect. And all I'm trying to do is preserve that ability to collect it the following years, because if it's not collected, your budget starts half a million, your cap starts half a million lower the following year.

And with pool and all these things that we keep talking about needing to make sure we have money for not collecting revenue. And again, if MAPTOR wasn't in place, it wouldn't be an issue. But with MAPTOR in place, if we don't collect that revenue, we can't next year. So I think it's a poor decision not to collect the revenue authorized by maftor.

Thank you, Mr. Gardiner. I'd like to make the clarification that I would like us to not collect the full amount. I would really like to see option D as a compromise, but we're going to run around in circles here. So at some point, perhaps we should consider calling the question. Thank you.

All the way in here. So I appreciate the discussion, and I am sensitive to the. The MAPTOR component of our budget. However, as far as this. This amendment, I can't support either.

I still feel the amount budgeted for the school district was appropriate, especially in light of recent events where the school district stated on record during the most recent Board of education meeting that $900,000 in budget deficiencies were discovered. So I won't be in support of this, but certainly open for discussion for the other options.

Any further discussion,. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. Roberts? No.

Mr. Smiley? Yes. Mr. Whiteside? No.

Mr. Woods? No. Mr. Ames? No. Mr. Gardner?

No. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion failed. Five no's. Two.

Yes.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. So the original motion is on the table. Do we have another motion to consider? I have one. If not, Mr. Gardiner.

Move to amend to adopt option D.

Do we have second? I'll second. We have a second assembly discussion. Mr. Gardner, would you like to start us off?

I ran on wanting to lower taxes. I believe I'll say it over and over again. We got to tighten our belts. I want to see taxes go down. My family's back is breaking.

We were going to move from here just this past winter because we're just watching it go up and up and. And it's harder and harder to run a business and. And to get by. And that's where I stand. I want to see it go down, and I want to see us tighten our belts.

So I just want to see what the assembly thinks on this option. Thank you, Ms. Roberts. Question. Did you say B, as in boy or D as in dog. Okay,.

So we are looking at option D, which is would set the mill rate at eight point with a slight modification. Madam Manager. Thank you, Mr. W. Presiding Officer. Last week I was very excited to get those raises added into the MAPTOR calculation. In my exuberance, I added in $67,015 that should have not been added because not all of our salaries are from the general funds.

Some are from the landfill fund, some are from buildings and grounds, et cetera. And so I have updated option D. And so I have. It's still the Same mill rate, 8.75, but I have a new handout for you so that the rest of the numbers are correct. Great. Thank you.

Thank you.

Allow a minute for folks to digest this information. So to keep that mil rate at 8.75, you'll see that the facility's maintenance or the R and R money went from 320,000 to 380,000. That would be where the main difference is on those sheets.

Thank you, Mr. Woods.

I really enjoy working with all you guys. It's a. It's a blast. The you guys are, I think, have show a great deal of integrity in your positions and I really do appreciate that. I like knowing where people stand.

I can't support this. I seconded the motion specifically to bring it to the floor. I want the discussion. I like hearing different points. I think this is leaving just a little too much on the table.

I would love to lower taxes. However, I don't think think that's in our best interest at this point. To do so, I'm going to end up supporting option B in maintaining our mill rate. Thank you. Thank you.

For your discussion. I'd like to weigh in on this one as well. I support option D. My logic behind supporting this option is this budget is balanced. It provides continuity for all borough services, represents an $800,000 increase in school funding, and it also increases our MAPTOR capacity by approximately a half a million dollars for next fiscal year. So given that we are budgeting efficiently while still providing services to the community, I'm reminded of all of the recent increases our community is having to absorb.

Kea raised their electric rates by 12.5%. The City of Kodiak recently is entertaining and I'm not quite clear if they've adopted it yet, but they are looking to increase the water and sewer rate by 5%. We've all been to the gas pumps lately. We've all been to the grocery store. Everything is getting more expensive.

We're getting squeezed from all directions. Our community can't take a whole lot more. We have folks. My neighbor is looking to leave the island. He is a realtor.

Was there yesterday, asked why. It's getting too expensive. Folks are getting squeezed out of our community. So I agree with Mr. Gardner. This mill rate represents balanced budget, increased capacity for MAP or next year.

Not quite to the extent some would like to see, but thinking about just basic inflationary increases, it allows for that from fiscal year to fiscal year. So I think this is a reasonable proposal. And it also provides some relief to our community with the mill rate.

Further discussion.

Roll call vote on the amendment, please. Madam clerk. Ms. Roberts? Yes. Mr. Smiley?

No. Mr. Whiteside? Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes.

Mr. Ames?

Yes. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Mr. Johnson? No.

Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes with five yes, two nos.

Thank you. And point of procedure, Madam Clerk. Do we reopen for discussion for other amendments, or do we. If you want to. Yes on the main motion now.

Thank you. As amended. Any further discussion?

Okay. Roll call vote, please, on the motion as amended. Madam Clerk. Mr. Smiley?

No. Mr. Whiteside? Yes. Mr. Woods? Yes.

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

No. Ms. Roberts? Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes with five yes, two no's.

Thank you. Next item on the agenda is the borough manager's report. Madam Manager, sorry. May I have a moment to actually update this. The ordinance.

So you guys can see the finished ordinance before we move forward? Sure. Would you like a recess? Yeah. That's.

How many minutes? Five minute break. Okay. Is that plenty? Ten.

Ten. Let's go. Ten. All right. Thank you.

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Okay. Welcome back. So we're going to resume our agenda with the borough Manager's report. Madam Manager, good evening. Our current recruitments are projects assistants, where we've received an in house application this week and we are still looking for our LTP supervisor, but we have someone on temporary assignment until June 30th.

Also, our project manager started this week. Patricia Valerio was promoted into project manager. So she started on a few. She's not in here. I was going to clap.

She officially started on the first day of the pay period so she officially started on Sunday. So congratulations to Patricia. Our last in person negotiation session with the Union was on the 26th and 27th of May. We're going to finish it out from a distance. We're currently reviewing the latest proposal from ibew.

We are very close. That should hopefully wrap up next week. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conversation was here this week to check on our land farm out at the landfill. The inspectors got a good look at the process the landfill staff is using to keep the land farm dry and later in the report there's some pictures of the wet and dry version of that. Project Manager Valeria has been working to update our compliance by consent agreements with ADC ahead of our environmental services contract kicking in and the start of our environmental Specialist in July.

The Kodiak Island Borough School District had a going away event for Dr. Micah on Tuesday. Assemblymember Speaker Smiley, Mayor Griffin and I were able to attend to wish her well. It was well attended and very nice event. YMCA Kodiak had a ribbon cutting event yesterday. Congrats to Erica Blonda and her staff on the success from the school year and their upcoming plans for summer care.

The City of Kodiak and the Kodiak Island Borough are making a pitch to the Coast Guard next week to explain why Kodiak would be a good home port for future icebreakers. Mayor Griffin and I met with a City of Co Kodiak representatives in our federal lobbyist to go over our game plan this week on Tuesday and we'll be doing that early next week. I attended the board meeting at the Women's Bay Service Area to update them on the Pell study for the Russian and Sergeant Bridge replacement, which was very timely because that road flooded and flooded hard this week. Sergeant Creek was underwater for almost two days. Assemblymember Roberts also attended to discuss the deterioration of South Russian Creek Road and I say that mildly deterioration is not quite the right word.

You need to be a race car driver to make it around all the potholes. But I'm happy to let everyone know that it looks like Brecon is going to start their plant tomorrow. They have one project to do before us on the next dry day. After that project is done, South Russian Creek is on the agenda. Our proposed nonprofit funding schedule is in the Nothing has changed from our discussion last week, although we will be making changes to that form to limit the word count so you have less things to review when those applications come in.

In Community Development there will be a work session on June 10th. They'll be discussing proposed future land map for Plan 2045 and the Commission will help staff with some policy questions for certain areas of the map. In packet review, the Commission is going to be looking at a conditional use for the native village of Carlik for changes to the current water treatment system system, which includes a new water storage tank. The regular meeting will be held on June 17. There are no updates to the finance department this part of the year.

They just go steady. They're getting ready for their interim audit in the end of June. In assessing in summer of 2026 we have a report due to the State of Alaska on July 1 and the properties that will be reviewed are inside of the city Cody City of Kodiak this year. Exemption updates we have timely filed exemption applications for the Kodiak Maritime Museum, the Kodiak Masonic Temple and the Calvary Baptist out in Bell's Flats. Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society was asked to amend their application.

They denied and the exemption for the building that they were applying for will be removed for 2026 exemption appeals for the Alutic Heritage foundation they're getting a little bit confusing so I reordered them. We have appeals for 23, 24 and 25. 23 Is stayed until we get 24's appeal case. 25 Is on hold until we get the 24 appeal case and if it doesn't come out soon, I will be adding 2026 to that list as well and so hopefully we get an answer on 2024 soon. Also, we have not heard from the Alaska Supreme Court Court about our case with Cana.

For those of you who weren't on the assembly, we went up to Anchorage and we heard that case in December of 2024 and so we are more than 18 months out waiting for that decision. We are still continuing to have some issues with the Tyler conversion. Assessing staff and Tyler continue their meetings. We're hoping to have a go live date for July 31 for commercial properties in it. They are working on upgrading systems at the leachate treatment plant to improve remote access for the monitoring systems as we have new staff members learning how to monitor from home and taking on those duties overnight.

They're also working with Koniak Cyber to mount switches and firewalls in the Kib offices, so it's nice they're getting to actually install hardware so they're really happy with that. Engineering facilities the ipa, the installers for our seawater pumps, are scheduled to arrive on June 7 and begin work on June 8. We had some additional Issues at the hospital with the elevators. Elevator number two had a hydraulic jack failure. We have a quote from TKE for $33,284.45 and as much as I tried that was not in the scope for the modernization project.

So this will be a new project that we take on and get number two back into service. As you heard from other assembly members today, the solid waste contract committee met to finalize the RFP draft and approve it for advertisement. We have one tweak that we're going to make and that committee will vote on surrounding recycling. Once that is done, that'll be ready to go out on the street for fuel spill assistance and landfill soil remediation. ADC was here.

I mentioned that earlier and then there's a couple of pictures in there. You can see what the landform looks like. The picture on the left is from today and the picture on the right was from Tuesday. So ADC saw something very different on Tuesday than what it looked like today. Our plan out there is they just till that they're actually moving it around with a machine.

Hopefully all the sunny days that we have it will remain uncovered and so the fuel contamination just evaporates with the heat and then we will continue to test that and then when it is done we get to take that land farm apart. Our building automation systems we are doing work on both the KFRC and the admin building. We've talked about that having long here for our building and respect is going to be on Island June 9th and 10th for the onsite evaluation for the KFRC. We are working on the east elementary roof hazardous material testing that was awarded to emi. We don't have a schedule for them yet but it will be done by the end of the summer.

That will allow us to continue to the design on east which is really important for the school district because we're trying to move that up higher on the CIP list for them. Portland School painting project that is on the agenda tonight for award. We had a pre bid meeting for the removal of the underground storage tank at the annex building. Mill Bay beach stairs and picnic tables are underway and the leachate treatment plant citric acid dosing skid replacement we are working on installing that. They're continuing to have problems that so the timing is really good.

We also are working on a roof warranty for this building. Our contractor is on island but we're trying to get fit into their schedule. Upcoming contracts are environmental services, the facilities, road maintenance and snow contract. There's a pre Bid meeting this week. There were four contractors who came our janitorial contractor.

There was a pre bid meeting on the 20th and there were two contractors there. In our landfill surveying contract. We issued a professional service agreement with Kodiak Land Surveying and we just got their insurance requirements in today. Upcoming meetings on next Tuesday will be H4 Fab at the hospital and the Barometer conference room. And there's arb we're going to try to hold at the end of June.

And that is all I have for the manager's report tonight and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Smiley. My memory is that we were supposed to adopt Tyler last September and it's taken until June and we still have some issues with that.

Why? What happened? Did we pick the wrong computer program? I don't think we picked the wrong computer program, Mr. Smiley. I think that our conversion was a lot harder than what they're used to.

We have been on an antiquated system that has been limping along for years. And in order to make that system work, I think the old company made modifications that did not just. In the perfect world, we would have just been able to take all the data from our old system, send it over the new system and put it in. And then we customize the forms that come out of it. And it just was not that simple.

We had personnel changes in IT between the people who ran that data and then hiring in a new IT director who wasn't as familiar with the data sets. And so you just perfect storm all of those things together. And it's taking longer. There have been some very frustrating moments as we've come up to deadlines and we're like, we need this no later than this date. And they'll be like, okay, you'll have it that day.

And we're like, so we're trying to avoid that and work really hard so we can get Levy out. Because obviously sending out tax bills on July 1 is part of our state requirements. And so we are nervous about that. But they have a whole dedicated team. We have a whole dedicated team.

So Seema and her team have worked non stop on the assessing side and Dora and her team, mostly Sue Zimmerman, have been. Sue almost works entirely on this conversion. And so we have a backup plan in the event that Tyler doesn't work for Levy because we have kept that parallel system for Harris this whole time. If that doesn't, if Tyler doesn't work, we'll be trying to pull away from Tyler. Tyler really fast after Levy because then our Their system is useless to us.

So are there other communities that have different programs that might be better?

I mean, I'm sure a lot of the blame can go to the old system we had, which had been patched any number of times in odd ways. I understand that a lot of different software companies that we talked to, a lot of communities in Alaska that already had this, and there are a lot of very successful communities. But there are other communities that are suffering through this process just like we are. But once we get to the goal line, I think all the bad memories will fade away and we'll all be used to it and we'll be off. It's just.

It's been more painful and more of a. Just a longer process than we anticipated, for sure. Thank you.

Any other questions for manager Williams? Manager Williams, if possible, when we resume meeting towards the end of this month, if we could insert some periodic reports for that software. I don't know the name. Remember the name of the software for reporting short term rentals in the community. Thank you.

Next item on the agenda is messages from the borough mayor. Mayor Griffin is off island representing the borough at the Alaska Municipal League. So we will move on to contracts. First contract is contract number FY2026 57, approval of Port Lyons School painting with Kalea Painting Services. Mr. Smiley,.

Move to authorize the manager to Approve contract number FY 2020 6:57, Approval of Portland School painting with Kolea Painting services in the amount of $143,000. Second. Thank you. Staff report please. Madam Manager.

Thank you. Staff issued an invitation to bid for this contract on April 16, advertised for the designated three weeks per KIB code 3.3 0.040 and bids were due on May 21. There was a mandatory pre bid meeting held on May 12 and there were six contractors in attendance at the bid opening. Staff received one bid package. Following the review of the bid, staff determined Kalea Painting Services to have a complete bid package and is the lowest cost responsible for responsive bidder.

This also had a rough order of magnitude guess at $250,000. So we were pleasantly surprised to see it come in at 143,000.

Thank you. Assembly discussion.

Okay. Seeing none. Roll call vote on the motion please. Madam Clerk. Mr. Whiteside.

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

Mr. Gardner? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. Roberts?

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

Thank you. Next is contract number FY2027.01 authorizing the manager to enter into a lease agreement with Choonak Tribe of Kodiak for the space in the North Star building. Move to authorize the manager to enter into contract number FY 2020 27, hyphen 01, a lease agreement with Sunak Tribe of Kodiak for space in the North Star building. Second. Thank you.

The motion has been seconded. Staff report. Madam Manager, as you know, we have a request to lease a wing in the North Star building to expand a preschool and early childhood programming. Staff members have worked cooperatively with representatives of the Shoe Neck Tribe to draft a lease in accordance with the needs of the tribe and the direction of the assembly that's in front of you tonight, and JJ is here tonight if there happens to be any questions about what their needs are. In addition to that wing, they are also looking at renting the library space as well.

And as we talked about last week, we will be considering the playground space a common area, so they will absolutely have access to that. And we have ordered some signs to place around that area that say, no dogs, clean up your waste, that kind of stuff, to help mitigate the circumstances that we've been experiencing without anyone in that building.

Great. Thank you. Assembly discussion. Ms. Roberts, I just wanted to say. I'm really excited that the lease is here and we're able to vote on it tonight.

Thank you. Seeing no others, roll call, vote on the motion, please. Mr. Woods? Yes. Mr. Ames?

Yes. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes.

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

Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes. Seven zero. Thank you.

Next item on the agenda, resolutions. First up is resolution number FY2026-16, authorizing land sale of a portion of USS 3465 Lot 1A4 and establishing terms and conditions.

I'm not sure where we are. This would be item two under resolutions page 507.

Move to adopt resolution number FY2026 hyphen 16.

Second motion has been seconded. Staff report, please. Madam Manager. Thank you. The proposed resolution would allow me to subdivide a port portion of the subject property into four lots as shown in the draft plat and is attached to the resolution rezone the four lots to from the PL district to the R2 district and conduct the land disposal of the property through a sealed bid auction from last week.

We have updated line 82 to add the letter T to the word first. Director French is here tonight to answer any questions. Additionally, there is a memo that you received via email and it's printed out in of front front of you tonight from our assessor. And if you're listening online, it's available in the supplemental materials. Also, the assessor is here tonight if you have any questions about her comments on this.

Thank you. Assembly discussion and. Or do we want to hear from director garout? Mr. Woods, I was just going to make a move, an amendment in accordance with the language that Ms. Garut provided, but I'll take a stab at it. If we're willing to move to amend resolution number FY 2026, deck 16, lines 174 and 175, removing the language, quote, a period of five years from the date of closing and changing that to, quote, until a certificate of occupancy is received from the building department or the property becomes the owner's primary residence and permanent place of abode not to exceed 36 months after construction commences.

Second. Okay, moved and seconded. Assembly discussion.

Mr. Johnson, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the work the assessor's office put into this. It's. It's a sign of good governance when the elected officials want to see something accomplished and staff are comfortable in saying, yeah, what you're trying to do might not work, but here's something you can, can do that will work. So I just can't say how much I appreciate the effort that went into that. Likewise in my conversations, I'm certainly not going to take credit, but I think it was suggested and I think it's a great idea that we consider extending this to all land sales in the borough so that other people, you know, private land lots, can experience the same tax benefits getting a break during construction.

So it's not just burrow lots, but that would probably be an effort for another time. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Woods. Yeah, I just wanted to thank Sima.

I mean, for doing the extra work. I don't know that anybody really tasked her with this. At least I hadn't heard about it. And thank you for bringing the information to us in an easily digestible and generally easy to follow manner. Just really evidence of excellent staff.

Thank you. Further discussion.

I'll be supporting this amendment as well. I think this makes a reasonable compromise. Not even necessarily a compromise, but just achieves our goal. But also put some bookends on it so the language makes sense to me. So I will.

I'll be a yes vote on this one. Okay. Roll call vote. Roll call vote on the motion to amend. Mr. Ames?

Yes. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes.

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

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

Okay. The motion has been amended. Assembly discussion on the motion as amended.

Okay, seeing none. Roll call vote on the main motion as amended, please. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Mr. Johnson?

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

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

Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. We have no new ordinances for introduction, so the next item on the agenda is other items.

Authorization for the first up is authorization for the reimbursement to Providence Kodiak Island Medical center for design costs for their air handler unit 1. Move to authorize the borough manager to reimburse Providence Kodiak Island Medical center for design costs for their air handler unit one with HZA Engineering. Second. Thank you. The motion has been seconded.

Staff report, Madam manager. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Presenting Officer. And thank you for taking this out of the consent agenda. What we approved last week, we had a couple of changes. One, it's cheaper this week, so that's always a good thing.

Two, last week, our proposal was to move forward with the design on the air handler unit and the rooftop unit for kchc. And we chose this methodology because. Because it was going to save the R and R fund a lot of money. Because we are already at 65% design. What we're asking tonight is to move beyond that 65% design to 100%.

All of that is great. But then when we sat back and looked at it after the meeting last week, I realized that Providence would then be in charge of the rooftop design for kchc and we would be using R and R money for a entity that doesn't pay paying into R and R. And so that doesn't feel like a good fit. Also, KCHC should be responsible or have a role in designing their own rooftop unit. Funding to be determined. And so as we are going through different things with KCHC and giving them our decision on the NFI last week and stuff, we have to reestablish a path forward with them.

And we have an H Fab meeting on Tuesday to do that. But for this, I think the best thing to do is just put the Providence project in with Providence's folks and move forward with just that. Patricia went through a lot of versions with this. Spent some time with Tyler from Providence this week. She's available tonight, as you can see.

If you have any specific questions. I think this path forward is better and more appropriate with the R and R money than what we suggested last week. Thank you. Thank you. Assembly discussion.

Mr. Smiley. I agree this is a lot better. Thank you for doing this. Thank you, Ms. Roberts. I also agree that KCHC needs to be part of the discussion of what's going on their building.

So thank you for recognizing that. Thank you. Any further discussion?

Roll call. Vote on the motion, please. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. Roberts?

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

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

Yes. Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is Citizens Comments.

For those who wish to call in, the Local number is 907-486-3231. Toll free is 1855-9202. 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 the 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 and not to any member thereof.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Somehow I got the newspaper about 10 o' clock this morning. Will you please state your name for the record? Oh, yes, Carly McChesney. Thank you. And just thought that you folks would be interested.

You probably get the newspaper, but just in case. There were three or four really good articles in there and they said it's so much better and it would have cost me a lot of money to make copies of all those pages of articles. So I just stopped by the paper office and picked that up. But they were so good. Gary Stevens the last session.

He'll fill us in about the gas pipeline soon and just what's going on with the city and then Latic's assessment. I think what I got out of it is we can learn a lot from it. So Steve Williams can say it so much better than I can. So I just brought you the paper, but thank you, thank you. It was very kind of you.

Any phone calls? Okay, I'll give it some time.

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Okay, so next item on the agenda, assembly member comments. I'll start on the far end. Mr. Woods, huge thank you to staff and congrats to Patricia for the promotion. Well deserved. You guys continue to make this place run in every measurable and really definable characteristic.

Thank you guys so much for what you do. Well and truly. We do have some of the best staff around. I think having, you know, once worked for municipality and interacted with that. We.

I love seeing the emphasis put on taking care of our people and making sure that they Excel. So thank you guys. Thank you all for being as awesome as you are. Thank you. Ms. Roberts.

No comment. Mr. Ames. Just thank everyone for the time and effort going through this budget process and the amendments and rewriting and everything else, and the work that was involved in getting us as accurate numbers as can be gotten. And.

Have a good evening. Thank you. Mr. Smiley. No comment. Mr. Johnson?

No comment. Mr. Gardner. Again, congratulations, Patricia. Thank you. Specifically to the assessor's office for the help on this last bit of that resolution.

Or. Yes. That we've been working on. And clerks manager, you all work way too hard. Thank you.

Thank you. Congratulations, Patricia. Well deserved. You're doing a fantastic job. Thank you, Sima, for the help as well.

Reminder, all borough offices and facilities will be closed to the public on Friday, June 19, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. The next assembly work session is scheduled for Thursday, June 25th at 6:30pm and the next assembly regular meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 2 at 6:30pm in the borough assembly chambers. So, next item on the agenda is our executive session to review the Borough Clerk's performance evaluation. Move to convene into executive session under the authority of Kodiak island Borough Code 2.30.030 F1C to discuss the borough Clerk's performance evaluation, a subject that qualifies for executive session as the matter that may be tend to prejudice a character or reputation of any person. Second.

Thank you. Been seconded. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call.

Vote on the motion, please. Ms. Roberts? Yes. Mr. Smiley? Yes.

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

Yes. Mr. Gardner? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes.

Would anyone like to change their vote? Motion passes. Unite unanimously. Move to invite the mayor and assembly members into executive session. Clerk Javier is going to be invited in at a later time.

Second. Thank you. Voice vote on the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye.

All opposed? Same sign. Okay. Motion passes. After the vote, we will recess the regular meeting and convene in executive session.

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