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ASSEMBLY WORK SESSION NOTES
October 26, 1989
Borough Conference Room
There were present: Lonnie White, Presiding, Assemblymembers Alan
Austerman, Jack McFarland, Tom Merriman, Mary Monroe, John Parker
and Gary Stevens. Also present were: Gaye Vaughan, Borough Clerk
and Kaye McClain, Acting Deputy Clerk.
Also present were the following members of the School Board: Bill
Oliver, President, Suzanne Hancock, Alice Knowles, and Dave
Herrnsteen; and, John Witteveen, Supt., and Dennis Nicholson, Asst.
Supt.
S�hool District Budget Preoaration Schedule Mr. Witteveen
presented the assembly with a copy of Alaska Dept. of Community &
Regional Affairs determination of the true value of the Kodiak
island sorough. The true value of $645,143,800 will be used by the
Dept. of Education in determining the amount of local contribution
for education support for the coming year. Local contribution must
equal between 4 and 6 mills in budget appropriations and in-kind
services. For Kodiak, 4 mills equals $2,580,575. Mr. Witteveen
noted that this year's appropriation of $2,100,000 plus $450,000
in insurance is verging on the low side. PL 874 funds of $600,000
also counts as local effort. If the local effort exceeds the
"cap", the state takes the difference out of their share. Mr.
Witteveen outlined the schadule for the district's budget
preparation.
PL 874 Funds These are federal monies paid to school districts in
lieu of taxes for dependents of military personnel attending local
schools. Of the $20 million appropriated for Alaska, $8 million
has gone into the state pot for all 55 districts. Fairbanks,
Anchorage and Kodiak split the remaining $12 million with Kodiak
receiving 5600,000 of it. Under new procedures, Kodiak has to
apply directly to the federal government. Senator Stevens has
indicated that the level will remain at $20 million if the
Fairbanks, Anchorage and Kodiak districts can work out
distribution. Mr. Witteveen outlined the plan worked out by the
three superintendents to form three new districts of military
students only. Kodiak has 21$ military student population.
Assemblv/School Board Relations Bill Oliver will be representing
state-wide school boards in a round table discussion at Alaska
Municipal League on Nov. 17 in Juneau. He asked for assistance in
preparing his presentation. It was noted that regular
communication, i.e. meeting monthly, has established good relations
with the assembly and school board. In other areas of the state,
the board only meets with the assembly at budget time when they are
requesting funding.
Hiqh School Studv The study has been placed on hold and will
probably not meet the original December date since Facility
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Coordinator McFarland has been out recuperating from heart surgery.
Mr. Nicholson said indicators show that the high school population
will grow 75 to 100 students in the next two years. The �unior
high is now at 500. it was built for 450. The high school was
built for a regional vocational high school and now serves as a
comprehensive high school. There are problems with the current
layout of the classrooms.
The school board left the meeting and the assembly continued with
the following items:
Kodiak Slectric Association - Reauest for Easement Resolution No.
89-70-R, suthorizing easement, was removed from agenda of Oct. 19.
KEA representatives Ed Kozak and Ernie Thompson were present to
answer questions of the assembly. They noted that this line was
installed at the same time as the water line in 1971-72. The line
is experiencing an increased amount of failures in the line from
the highway to the dam. The assembly did not feel any development
would be taking place in this area in the foreseeable future and
will delete the condition from the resolution which stipulates the
lines to go underground at such time as the land is subdivided for
development. Kozak and Thompson noted that condition would have
to be agreed to by KEA management and/or board. They had no
problems with the second condition requiring KEA to submit a plat
of the line at their expense.
Road to Anton Larsen Bav Okey Chandler requested the addition of
the extension of the road to the CIP list. He noted that if the
road were extended to deep water a dock could be built in ice free
water. He believed it to be approximately 3/4 mile with one stream
to cross.
Water and Sewer Billing Chris Billings, property owner in Kodiak
for 20 years, requested relief from $9,000 water and sewer bill.
He noted he had spoken to the Finance Director and he would be
turned off next week unless paid. He asked the assembly to forgive
this bill and explained the incidents leading to a bill this size
admitting he had unreliable people working for him. He owns a
trailer court on Spruce Cape Rd. and non-payment would mean 14
trailers without water service. He said he doesn't have the money
to pay the bill. The assembly instructed staff to hold off turning
off the water service until a review of the matter can be made.
Small World Reauest for Buildina Sfte Bill Barnes and Carolyn
McKee of the Small World Board of Directors were present to request
the donation of land on which to build a new facility. Barnes
explained how the various programs of Small World are now housed
in many locations, the old Mormon Church, the Mason Building, St.
Paul Lutheran Church and East School. A new facility is need to
begin phasing into one structure for all programs. Their plan is
to begin with a much needed infant and toddler center and as
funding and time allows add the other programs. They requested two
lots in the Lakeside Subdivision which are currently zoned
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The assembly asked that Bud Cassidy research suitable
Packet Review The agenda packet for the regular meeting of
November 2 was reviewed by the assembly.
t0 her Alan Austerman inquired about the new sound system being
installed in the assembly chambers at Exxon's expense. He also
asked for an opinion on John Witteveen's statement that the
$450,000 school district fund balance cannot be used the following
year as part of the local effort.
Gary Stevens asked the Clerk to arrange for meetings with
department heads and himself and asked Mary Monroe to �oin him in
meeting the department head and reviewing their functions.
Tom Merriman briefed the assembly on the city council's intent to
raise tie-down rentals at the municipal sirstrip. He noted that
current rates are 5150/year and that rates at Anchorage's Merrill
Field, which is a fully equipped field, are $500-600/year. The
Kodiak state airport rents revetments for 5240/year. The council
has proposed to increase rates to 51000-1500/year. They asked the
status of the borough land at the airstrip. Was that land traded
to the city for another site7
Executive Session Alan Austerman, seconded by John Parker, moved
to recess into Executive Session to discuss personnel. There being
no ob�ection, the work session was ad�ourned. No action was taken
by the assembly following the work session.
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