03/02/2017 Special MeetingKODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
Assembly Special Meeting
March 2, 2017
A special meeting of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly was held on March 2, 2017, in the
borough conference room of the Kodiak Island Borough Building, 710 Mill Bay Road. The
meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m.
Present were Mayor Dan Rohrer, Assembly members Kyle Crow, Larry LeDoux, Scott Smiley,
Dave Townsend, and Matthew Van Daele. Also present were Borough Manager Michael
Powers, and Borough Clerk Nova Javier.
LeDoux moved to excuse Assembly members Rebecca Skinner and Dennis Symmons who
were absent due to their attendance to the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
CITIZENS COMMENTS (Limited to Three Minutes per Speaker)
There were no citizens comments.
CONSIDERATION OF MATTERS IN THE CALL FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING
1. Joint Borough and City of Kodiak Letter to the Alaska Board of Fish Supporting Kodiak's
Fisheries.
LeDoux moved to authorize the Mayor to sign the joint Borough and City of Kodiak letter to the
Alaska Board of Fish supporting Kodiak's Fisheries.
At the recent meeting of the City and Borough's Kodiak Fisheries Work Group, harvesters asked
for support to respectfully request the Board of Fisheries (BOF) to not take up any hasty
reactions stemming from the recent salmon genetic study, and instead work towards the
continuation of balanced and science -driven approaches. Additionally, if the BOF decided to
form its own working group comprised of representatives of stakeholder sectors, the Borough
and City asked that Kodiak area harvesters and other impacted groups were included as equal
partners.
All of the communities in Kodiak were salmon -dependent communities, and decades of effective
State management had maintained healthy returns that contribute to the backbone of the
Kodiak Archipelago's economy.
ROLL CALL VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY: Crow, LeDoux, Smiley,
Townsend, and Van Daele.
ADJOURNMENT
Crow moved to adjourn the meeting.
VOICE VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
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Approved on: March 23, 2017
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