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KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH ASSEMBLY SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 1, 1978
I CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Betty Wallin in the
Borough Meeting Room at 1:17 P.M.
II ROLL CALL
Present
Dr. Michael Emmick Absent
Mr. Edward Jack nn Logan (excused)
Mrs. Sandra Kavanaugh
Mr. James Peotter
Mrs. Marlene Wasson
Mr. Bill Williams
Mrs. Betty Wallin, Mayor
A quorum was established.
III ITEMS OF BUSINESS
1.
Hospital ].andaHomesoSocietytal Management Contract with Lutheran
Gle W. Benss°n, Corporate Treasurer of the Lutheran Hospital
and Homes Society of America. Part of his responsibility is
the supervision of the Alaskan facilities. The corporate office
of the Society is in Fargo, North Dakota. It operates 93
hospitals and nursing homes in 13 states, soon to be 14 states.
and
In Alaska the Society operates facilities in Fairbanks, Soldotna
and Valdez Sometimemagoea. The for the operation of the
we are
and are impressed with the fine facilitiesthereeinlKodiak. Today
eit ment; toedategthe agreement hha s p not t been a sign dnb and lease agree-
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The Society's services are available to the Kodiak community
and KIB if requested. Mr. Benson introduced Mr. Brad Berkeland,
Director of Human Resource Department (which includes personnel)
and Mr. Jim Baird, Consulting Attorney.
Mr. Jim Blair, Consulting Attorney: Explained that the Society
will be attributing application forms making known its needs
for employees to work at the hospital sometime very soon. Any
employees will be hired as new employees of the Lutheran Hospital
and Homes Society and will be offered employment on new terms
and conditions of employment set by the Lutheran Hospital and
Homes Society. The wage rate will be determined in the near
future but it appears it will be equal to or in excess of the
present wage rate. Will be seeking applications from people in
the Kodiak area, Anchorage area, the State of Alaska and else-
where. Will receive application forms, process them and
employment decisions will be made prior to the Society taking
over the hospital.
Mrs. Wallin stated that the assembly members had reviewed the
agreement document.
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2. Discussion and Consideration of Legal Services Requirement.
Mrs. Kavanaugh moved for executive session. Seconded by Mr.
Peotter. Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote. •
Regular meeting recessed at 1:40 P.M. Regular meeting called back
to order at 2:20 P.M. Dr. Emmick moved that in view of the letter
received from the legal firm of Cole, Hartig, Rhodes, Norman 8
Mahoney and based on the discussions with these attorneys during
executive session which essentially points the existing and
potential conflict of interest beinp._generated by the tact that
this firm represents the City of Kodiak and the KIB, we mutually
agree to terminate our professional relationship no later than
June 30, 1978 except for special matters where there is no
conflict in which they will serve as special counsel. Seconded
by Mrs. Kavanaugh. It was pointed out this would terminate the
firms services as general counsel but could serve KIB in
special cases where there would be no conflict of interest.
Mr. Jack amended the motion to incorporate the firm as special
counsel specifically as required by the assemblyy. Seconded by
Dr. Emmick. This would give KIB freedom to utilize other
attorneys or special matters. Mr. Williams amended the amend-
ment to delete the word "required" and substitute the word
'desired ". Seconded by Dr. Emmick. Amendment to the amendment
carried 5 -1 with Mrs. Kavanaugh casting one NO vote. Amendment
failed 1 -5 with Dr. Emmick, Mrs. Kavanaugh, Mr. Peotter, Mrs.
Wasson and Mr. Williams casting NO votes. Main motion carried
5 -1 with Mr. Jack casting one NO vote. The total motion was
read back. Dr. Emmick moved that the Borough Manager be given
the responsiblity for obtaining proposals from other prospective
law firms for our consideration. Seconded by Mr. Williams.
Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote.
3. Overall Economic Development Program Report Schedule and
Technical Requirements. Mr. Denslow explained that a few months
back the EDA advised that the annual review and submittal of
0.E.D.P. progress reports would be dated June 30, 1978. Recently
the KIB was advised that a letter would be forthcoming indicating
new EDA requirements for the 0 E D P submittal in the face of
the prospects of their having some money to grant and their desire
to emphasize the concept of a development strategy. The original
program was adopted in 1968 and there have been nine revisions of
that document. In comparing the original document with current
standards and expectations of EDA, the original document is: a)
out of gate, b) inconsistent with EDA requirements, c) needs total
rewriting. In the face of that, it seems appropriate that since
so much has been done with the new master plan (an economic analysis,
a demographic analysis and an economic strategy) this should be
put together in the form of a new 0.E.D.P. report. Ted Lane is
the economist who wrote the economic and demographic portions
of the new master plan and is the author of the first pilot 0.E.D.P.
under the new format which was completed in the last fiscal year.
This is being used in Benton - Franklin Counties in Washington as
an experiment. Mr. Lane was asked to give a proposal for assist-
ing our O.E.D.P. committee in rewriting and presenting a new
0.E.D.P. plan to be used as the basis of our subsequent revisals
and reports in the next four or five years. He has drafted a
proposal with recommendations outlining the scope of work
required to prepare a new 0.E.D.P. and the schedule to meet the
June 30th deadline. The cost would be $9,830. This work
represents several hundred thousand dollars in grants to KIB
and its subsidiary governments. Feels the quality of the submittal
document or the priority of the projects within it should not be
allowed to fall behind as in any one calendar year the total EDA
contributions runs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. This
O.E.D.P. plan runs parallel with the "comp plan" and is based on
the "comp plan". There is orientation toward projects that would
be sponsored, hopefully, by EDA in future years as well as the
present. Dr. Emmick moved to contract and allocate funds for this
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project from undesignated capital projects. Seconded by
Mr. Peotter. Mrs. Kavanaugh stated there have been complaints
that the assembly seems to be bringing people into Kodiak
from "outside" to tell us what to do and how to do it
rather than doing it ourselves. Feels this should not be con-
tracted but should be done by the local committee. Dr. Emmick
felt we should have an up -to -date item, an acceptable docu-
ment, not a loose document. The application procedure and
the requirements for obtaining the grants are becoming more
elaborate all the time; the requirements for obtaining them
become more stringent. Mr. Denslow stated that although the
Planning Department has been expanded, the planning department
already has a full agenda and could not technically accom-
plish this work. They have yet to complete the master plan,
new zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations and the new
capital improvements program by the first of June. There are
two choices, to contract Mr. Lane to update the O.E.D.P. or
have a revised plan as the one submitted last year. The
assembly must be aware of the implications of submitting a
revised document. EDA is paying for our master plan; we were
able to qualify essentially because HUD was not able to pay
the cost. Technically the employment of Mr. Lane means a diff-
erence of quality. Motion carried 5 -1 with Mrs. Kavanaugh
casting a NO vote.
IV ADJOURNMENT
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Meeting adjourned at 2:40 P.M.
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