2020-09-28 Regular MeetingKODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
Consolidation Committee
September 28, 2020
A Consolidation Committee meeting was held on September 28, 2020, in the Borough
Assembly Chambers of the Kodiak Island Borough Building, 710 Mill Bay Road. The
meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m.
ROLL CALL
Present: Griffin, Kavanaugh, Kornelis, Thran, Thomas, VanDyke, alt Turner
Absent: Culbertson, Kewan, alt Delgado
PUBLIC COMMENTS (Limited to Three Minutes per Speaker)
Betty McTavish commented that the citizens voted in favor of investigating
consolidation and continues to support the Consolidation Committee; more public
reporting would be appreciated.
AGENDA ITEMS
Minutes of the September 14, 2020 meeting
Approved by unanimous consent
Old Business:
Personnel: awaiting City of Kodiak personnel information
Mr. Thran stated that the City provided personnel information that included title, salary
ranges, and DBM but not specific salary amount per employee. Discussion followed
regarding technicalities of how to request the specific information wanted in a manner
the City would honor; and general comments about the ease of providing the
information wanted to estimate personnel costs for a consolidated government.
Old Business:
Are there any comments or feedback on items previously discussed?
Mr. Thomas followed up on feedback about the consolidated government name choice
of "Municipality of Kodiak" and wondered if the committee remains in favor of that
name.
Break 7:31-7:39 pm
Ongoing Business:
Budget Preparations: it was requested that committee members review the
Turner draft preliminary budget and prepare questions and/or suggested
changes.
Discussion focused on sales tax revenue, whether is would be within current city
boundaries, road -system wide, or borough wide; sales taxes in village communities;
State sales tax cap; and online sales tax. Budget needs to reflect decisions previously
made about provision of services and paying for them.
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Mr. Thomas brought up discussion about government buildings that could possibly be
divested.
Ms. Kavanaugh proposed the formation of sub -committees to focus on budget and
code preparation
New Business
Intro to debt and other liabilities
Postponed until next meeting
Public Comments: members of the public arrived late due to mis-posted meeting location
so provision for additional public comment was made.
Judi Kidder shared knowledge of state sales tax provisions
MEMBERS CLOSING COMMENTS
Mr. Thran state he was happy to see members of the public attending the meeting; asked
question about "mandatory" weekly meeting attendance. Ms. Kavanaugh responded that the
schedule is changed to weekly meetings, but members may attend as they are available.
Mr. Griffin like the idea of subcommittees, particularly for the budget and would like to
approach the budget from the perspective of creating a new government rather than meshing
the two existing governments.
Mr. Turner would like to create a line item budget to focus on details of the budget.
Mr. VanDyke appreciates members of the public attending.
Ms. Christiansen would like to add public outreach to the agenda; and noted her lack of
training for board support with an apology for any errors in posting the agenda.
Ms. Kavanaugh feels that subcommittees will make the work of budget and code creation,
and possibly other tasks, easier to manage; and discussed possible future schedule for
including committee work.
SET NEXT MEETING DATE AND TIME
October 5, 2020 at 6:30 pm
ADJOURNMENT
9:00 pm
KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
Approved:
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