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Borough Manager Brad Ryan estimated the wage in creases will cost the munici pality roughly $500,000 per year. Prior to the increase, the lowest wage started at $11.42 per Currentlyhour.in Skagway, a gallon of milk is close to $8 per gallon and a newer 1,340 square foot home was ad vertised for sale in June for $510,000.Mayor Andrew Cremata noted the municipality lost their DMV clerk to the pri vate sector, and higher wag es, leaving a gap in services that was felt as the tourist season started.
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“Current Ore Dock has holes in the pilings under water,” Mayor Andrew Cre mata said, “…there are spots you can lean against the rail ing and put your life at risk.”
able online until that morn ing, leaving little time to study the document before the board approved the plan and forwarded it to the as sembly.Timothy Cochran of Petro Marine has repeatedly testi fied during Citizens Present about concerns he sees with the dock design, including fueling schedule issues and a too-small header platform.
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ilar sentiment at the July 21 assembly meeting. “There’s no sense to rush this thing,” he said. “I would like to see that we take the $65 million Band Aid project and maybe redesign it a little better. Be cause it’s nothing more than, I say, a status quo project.”
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The assembly unanimous ly approved a $5 per hour increase for municipal em ployees, effective for the pay period beginning Aug. 16, with Resolution 22-22R.
“I think this is gonna put us at a very competitive wage at this point. But had we not done this, I think we would have been struggling … the cost of living is so high. We were having trouble drawing people. I think this will put us a touch ahead. Maybe we can draw some folks,” Ryan said.Assemblymember Orion Hanson pointed out that the higher grades are unlikely to be an issue.
“To be clear, we don’t hire steps seven, or grade seven,
Hanson took exception to Tronrud’s testimony, and similar comments he’d heard.“…A hundred and some years of experience in here and you’ve kicked it right in our laps … And I totally dis agreed with the status quo, it’s actually improving on every aspect of it. In terms of efficiencies, it’s increas ing the length. So, increasing the depth. It’s modernizing a roll on roll off dock. It’s a 500 foot float, which means longshoremen don’t have to work so hard. It’s very frus trating for me to sit up here because I think a lot of what
“The nagging thing in the back of my mind is we’re going so fast. We’re going 30 [%] now to 60 [%]. We’ve had several concerns from everyone that works down there that are putting years and years of experience on the waterfront. And again, we don’t feel we’re being heard,” he said at the Aug. 4 assembly meeting. “...Let’s work together, seize the op portunity and do it right.”
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Ryan said other munici palities are raising wages, including Haines. According to the Chilkat Valley News, Haines will spend $1.1 mil lion more on city wages over the next three years.
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The July 7 assembly pack et on skagway.org shows Alternative 3 and Additive B2, which the assembly ap proved March 17. The Ma rine Service Platform de sign was approved May 5. All voting was unanimous, bringing the KPFF Con sulting Engineers design to nearly 60 percent.
Ports and Harbors Adviso ry Board Chair Tim Bourcy described the project as “multi-use that allows for industrial transfer of fuel, freight and ore through this port while also accommodat ing a cruise ship.”
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John Tronrud, a member of the Ports and Harbors Advi sory Board, expressed a sim
According to Ordinance 22-07, the bond would be used “to pay costs to acquire, construct and equip a floater cruise ship dock, an indus trial transfer bridge, reloca tion of marine fuel header and lines and associated im
provements in the borough’s port“Thisfacilities…”isrevenue bonding. It’s not coming out of your sales tax,” Assemblymem ber Orion Hanson explained. “It’s not coming out of any thing else. The funds from this dock, that are generated both through the tariffs and through taxes from the ships, will pay for this infrastruc ture, not out of your pocket.”
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Voters will decide Oct. 4 whether or not to authorize up to $65 million in port revenue bonds. If approved, the Ore Peninsula Redevel opment Base Project would replace the aging Ore Dock.
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Jaime Bricker captured this picture of Skagway longshoremen John Tronrud, Wayne Greenstreet, Andrew Tronrud, Rick Ackerman, Beau Dennis and Cory Bricker last month to “celebrate them in their work and their community contribution.”
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The Skagway News article, MOS and WP&YR dis agree with the end of lease process, in the August 26, 2022, edition has several mischaracterizations. The article states on page 3, “signed in 1968 and re written in 1969” and then goes on to quote language from the 1969 lease. The 1968 lease and the 1969 lease are separate documents on different parcels of land. One is not a rewrite of the other. The 1968 lease was for 66.5 acres of land including all the waterfront and tidelands area. The 1968 lease is applicable to all the questions about reversion of the improvements, the allotted time frame, and to how that process may proceed. The 1969 lease is on a small parcel of land totaling 12,280 square feet. This is the land across 1st Avenue south from the Skagway Shirt Company. Quoting the 1969 lease as if it is a revision of the 1968 lease is misleading.
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In the Aug. 26 issue, the first name of the borough attorney was incorrect. Robin Brena represented the municipality for the waterfront RFP process. Tim Cochran’s workplace was also in correctly identified. He works for Alaska Power and Telephone. In the same issue, a reference to the 1969 lease agreement between Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company dba White Pass & Yukon Route as a rewrite of the 1968 lease was incorrect. The two leases cover different areas of land. The Skagway News regrets the errors.
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As a conservative, I subscribe to the principle to leave alone things in government that are working well. We have enough important things that need to change like high in flation, the Biden administration’s efforts to close down ANWR, the Ambler Road and to reimpose the Roadless Rule on the Tongass.
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Alaska’s original constitution is one of the things in gov ernment that is working well and should be left alone. Arti cle XIII, Section 4 of the Alaska Constitution gives voters the opportunity every ten years to vote on whether Alaska should hold a constitutional convention. Alaskan voters have wisely turned it down by large margins in 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002 and 2012. We Alaskans should turn it down when the question is on the ballot again this year.
I oppose a constitutional convention because it is not need ed. Alaska’s Constitutional Convention delegates drafted one of the strongest state constitutions in the nation. (As a former governor, I particularly applaud the fact that it pro vides for a strong executive.) If a need arises to change our constitution, Article 13, Section 1 provides a demonstrably workable mechanism for doing so, including ratification by a public vote. This amendment process has been used forty times, twenty-eight times successfully, and was how the Per manent Fund was created.
We have had two votes on changing Alaska’s oil tax laws over the last 12 years, causing many to see Alaska as an un stable place to do business. Despite this fact, those who seek to raise oil and gas taxes will surely try to increase such tax es at a constitutional convention. I have the same concern about mining. As a matter of economics, adding to the tax burden of industry will cause it to invest less in Alaska. Less investment means less production. Less production means less revenue to the state.
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I oppose a constitutional convention because delegates would have plenary power to change the Alaska Constitu tion in ways that would surely result in unpredictable and unintended consequences. Because the Alaska Constitution will be such an open-ended target, we can count on the infu sion of outside special interest funding seeking to influence the election of delegates to promote special interest agendas, like those described above. Although the Stand for Salmon Initiative failed, similar provisions could be included in the
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now settled law to be relitigated, thereby creating years of economic, legal and regulatory uncertainty in the business community. This in turn will inhibit or prevent investment in Alaska industries. Moreover, principles of constitutional law related to our natural resources important to the entire Alas ka public will be up for grabs. These include common use, equal access, sustained yield, access to fisheries, mineral and water rights and access to navigable waters, will be leaving citizens to wonder which existing rights will be changed or eliminated.Inconclusion, there are many reasons not to vote for a constitutional convention, but my main concern is the poten tial roadblocks it would cause in maintaining and developing our resource industries and instability it would cause in our economy.
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Hanson expressed concern about “scheduling industri al uses” around two cruise ships.Assemblymember Dustin Stone asked for clarifica tion regarding voting for the bond“Someasure.I’mcorrect in under standing that this doesn’t lock us into a plan, it just se cures funding, and then we have flexibility to continue that conversation. Reevalu ate the plans and adjust if it becomes necessary,” he said.
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If approved, the entire project is estimated to be completed by spring of 2025.
A Holland America cruise ship docked at the Ore Dock.
“God bless you. You’ve got to pass this. We’ve got to do this. I mean, this room is full of ghosts, people all of whom would have been here tonight to say go for it. Be cause it’s going to cost every single penny of that money to do this.”
discuss taking control of the port and the bond measure.
eight and nine. We have not posted a job for any of those grades in a very long time,” he“Isaid.think this is long over due,” said Assemblymember Deb Potter. “We have an in credibly talented and hard working staff. And things have not been easy in Skag way and we need to do this to make sure that we keep our talented people.”
I’m hearing is self interest. This is a ballot measure for the voters to vote and you keep throwing things against the wall. You hope they stick…”Resident and engineer Paul Taylor submitted alternate dock plans, which include two cruise ship berths and can be found in the Sept. 1 assembly packet.
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Bond on October ballot to fund Ore Dock replacement
Wage increase for hourly muni employees, substitutes
benefits offered. This was a significant increase in bor ough expenses implemented in the middle of a fiscal year without knowing, or at least disclosing at the meeting, how the borough was going to fund it. The FY22 general fund budget is already oper ating at an almost $2 million deficit requiring a subsidy from the CPV fund.”
“...if we decided to do something that isn’t in this realm, or tied to it, clearly, we would go back to you [the assembly] and the bond bank to make sure it was okay,” he said.
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The Skagway School Dis trict also increased pay for some of their employees. After teachers advocated for higher wages for substitutes, the school board voted Aug. 30 to increase compensation for substitutes from $15 to $18 per hour. Those who have ever held a teaching certificate in any state now qualify for $25 per hour.
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Bourcy described the pro cess of taking over the port “as going on since 2007” and said he witnessed “multiple iterations of all the designs” by“ThisKPFF.plan [Ore Peninsula Redevelopment Base Proj ect] has been vetted through the community,” Cremata said. It’s been vetted through the Ports and Harbors Com mittee. It’s been vetted with this body. It’s been worked on by staff. This isn’t new. So I mean, the idea that we’d be moving too fast is hard for me to wrap my head around.”Long-time resident Steve Hites was passionate when he took the microphone to
After the resolution passed, resident Cindy O’Daniel wrote to the assembly with “concerns about borough spending.”“...Ihave many friends and family members who are beneficiaries of the re cent pay increase that was approved,” she wrote. “I re alize the positive impact that has. I also respect and appre ciate the desire to do right by your employees. My concern with the way that change to the pay scale happened has more to do with the seeming ly limited understanding of how this impacts the munic ipal budget and how it could impact local businesses (par ticularly those that employ people year round) and their ability to compete with both the municipal wages and the
Democrat Mary Peltola will become the first woman to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Alaska Native ever to serve in Congress.
That work could be finished as soon as Friday. After certi fication, candidates have five days to request a recount, and because the difference be tween first and second place was wider than 0.5%, the re questor will have to pay for anyAnyrecount.legal challenge to the results must be filed by Sept. 12. It isn’t yet clear when Peltola will be sworn into office and officially take her seat.Peltola received congrat ulatory messages from U.S. Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, as well as a va riety of Alaska and national Democrats and indepen dent governor candidate Bill Walker.Meanwhile, Palin spoke with reporters and supporters.
Peltola defeated Republi can candidates Sarah Palin and Nick Begich in ranked choice voting results an nounced Wednesday, Pelto la’s 49th birthday. All three candidates, plus Libertarian Chris Bye, will be on the ballot again in November as they seek election to a full two-year term.
“I’m just extremely grate ful for the Alaskans who had faith in me and elected me to fill out the remainder of Congressman Young’s term,” Peltola said as she prepared to leave a post-result event, “and I am very hopeful that I can continue his legacy of working for all Alaskans and thinking about how to best meet Alaskans’ needs here during the short seat, but of course, saying focused on November and the two-year
The former governor said she does not expect to chal lenge the lawsuit legally but will campaign hard against ranked choice voting.
The former state legislator and current tribal fisheries leader is the first Democrat to win a U.S. House race here in 50 years and will serve the remaining four months of the term left unfinished by the death of Congressman Don Young in March.
A special pick-one primary election in June -- Alaska’s first election to be conducted principally by mail -- nar rowed a field of 48 candidates to four, and the withdrawal of nonpartisan candidate Al Gross narrowed the options to a final three.
The result isn’t final, but Alaska Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai said she believes there are fewer than 1,000 ballots of all kinds left to be counted.
to an analysis conducted by Juneau computer program mer Will Muldoon. Women, who make up 48.7% of the electorate, cast 50.9% of the votes.
After the results were an nounced, Peltola was ex uberant, celebrated with supporters and received a congratulatory call from President Joe Biden.
pressed after Young’s death triggered a special election.
The remaining votes weren’t enough for Palin to overcome Peltola’s lead. In Wednesday’s final tally, Peltola had 91,206 votes and PalinThat85,987.result came even as Republicans turned out to vote in disproportionately large numbers: Registered Republicans make up 24% of the state’s registered voters but represented 31% of vot ers in the election, according
“We can’t be disheartened,” she said. “In fact, I think God prepared me for an outcome like this, believe it or not. I think God has kind of given me peace all along.”
seat.”The results remain prelim inary, but the number of out standing votes is not expect ed to change the results.
Palin denounced the ranked choice voting system, served cake to backers, and called for Begich to withdraw from the race for the full term.
Alaskans for Better Elec tions, the group that backed the installation of ranked choice voting, called the vote a success. Officials at the Alaska Division of Elections, which ran an intensive educa tion campaign for a year and a half, also were in a celebra tory mood about the apparent success of that campaign, whose timeline was com
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Alaskans picked their preferences on Aug. 16, and Peltola led after election day with 39.7% of first-choice votes, followed by Palin with 30.9% and Begich with 27.8%.Palin could have won on Wednesday if two-thirds of Begich voters picked her as their second choice, but in Wednesday’s preliminary tally, 28.7% of Begich sup porters picked Peltola as their second choice, and another 20.9% picked either no one or a write-in candidate that had already been eliminated.
Begich said in a written statement that Wednesday’s results match “what poll sters have been telling us for months; Sarah Palin cannot win a statewide race because her unfavorable rating is so high.”Wednesday’s results indi cated few Alaskans had prob lems voting in the state’s first ranked choice election. Only 295 ballots, or 0.15% of those cast, were unable to be count ed for at least one candidate.
That message was at odds with a campaign from the Alaska Republican Party, which urged voters to “rank the red,” effectively voting for both Palin and Begich, in eitherWednesday’sorder. results showed most Begich sup porters did follow that in struction, but not enough to make Palin the winner.
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All three candidates, plus Bye, shared a debate stage at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association’s annual meet ing shortly before the results were“Asannounced.anAlaskan who was born and raised here and in tends to be here the rest of my life, the fine people on this stage, I’m going to be work ing with them for the rest of my life. So you are not going to hear me say anything bad about any of the other leaders that are in this race,” Peltola said, “I do have 10 years of experience in the Legisla ture. You can’t do 10 years of public service without dis agreeing with half the people all the time. So I do have ex perience. I’ve got experience working across party lines with everyone and anyone. And I would love to be your representative in Washington, D.C.”
Peltola wins U.S. House race, first woman, Alaska Native
In an appearance with for mer President Donald Trump during her campaign, both Palin and Trump urged voters to pick only one candidate.
business and lease of the building to Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC).Theclinic costs the mu nicipality around $1 million per year. The discussion draft dated July 28 proposed SEARHC buy the clinic for $1 and lease the building for 25 years at $1 per year. As the clinic business has no monetary value, no commu nity vote would be needed to approve a final contract although the contract would need to pass the assembly.
praised value, and for a con sideration to be determined by the borough assembly to be in the best interests of the municipality.”According to Borough Manager Brad Ryan, SEAR HC representatives visit ed Dahl Clinic on Aug. 25 “to discuss terms of a lease agreement and sale agree ment, and to provide SEAR HC leadership an opportu nity to further familiarize
Municipal Code 16.03.060 (below) allows the borough to lease the clinic building for less than market value.
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On duty provider now routed through police dispatch, clinic gets executive director as SEARHC negotiations continue
themselves with clinic oper ations.”Ryansaid he expected draft documents from SEARHC by Sept. 2, and after legal re view, hopes to present them to the assembly Sept. 15. Currently, there are no town halls to discuss the SEARHC negotiations. In terested parties can email letters to the assembly via the borough clerk at s.burn ham@skagway.org
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The procedure to contact Dahl Memorial Clinic’s on duty provider has changed. The dedicated on duty pro vider line is no longer in service. Those seeking non-emergency care after hours should call Skagway Police Department Dispatch at Dispatch907-983-2232.will take down the patient’s number and rea son for calling. The on duty provider will then contact the patient and provide in structions.Thoseneeding immediate, life saving care should call 911.Dahl is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed Saturday andAfterSunday.many months with the position unfilled, the clin ic welcomed Interim Execu
Below: Beau Dennis, Northwest Coast formline artist, gets ready to address the audience. His eagle design, commissioned by the municipality, is one of the few Tlingit/Haida art pieces on display outside in Skagway. More of Beau’s artwork can be found on Facebook and Instagram at Killer House Creations.
Photos by Jaime Bricker
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tive Director Thomas Steiner in late August. He will lead the clinic with a three-month contract, at a cost to the mu nicipality of about $150,000, with the possibility to ex tend.According to Este Field ing, clinic administrative manager, Steiner has a mas ter’s degree in health science administration.“Thomashas successfully led complex projects includ ing quality of care and finan cial turnarounds for hospi tals, rural health clinics and physician practices,” Field ing wrote in her introduction announcement. This is his first time living in Alaska. As the clinic works with Steiner, who is contracted through COORS Leader ship Capital, the municipal ity continues to negotiate a possible sale of the clinic
Above: Andrew Beierly, Skagway Traditional Council vice chair, sits next to the family of Skag way artist Beau Dennis for the Aug. 26 art unveiling at Shoreline Park.
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-A report of a possible lost hiker was received, due to light being seen in town coming from the AB Mountain Trail. It was determined no response was necessary as no 911 calls came in, nor was anyone reported as miss ing.
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-Dispatch helped reunite a found GoPro with its owners.
-Dispatch helped contact the on duty provider.
Aug. 29 -Dispatch helped contact the bird group for a bird that may have been injured while flying into a downtown -Firebusiness.personnel respond ed to an automated fire alarm at a residential -Policelocation.responded to a complaint of camping where prohibited.
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WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVATIONS FOR PREVIOUS 24-HOUR PERIOD BEFORE 7 A.M. DATE MAX MIN PREC Weather Watch 6/18 - 7/02 8/1 66 54 .08 8/2 63 55 .07 8/3 66 53 trace 8/4 65 53 .06 8/5 66 54 trace 8/7 62 55 .11 8/8 63 55 trace 8/9 62 53 8/10 62 56 8/11 58 52 .13 8/12 64 52 trace 8/13 70 56 8/14 68 55 .05 8/15 62 55 .07 8/16 62 51 trace 8/17 62 52 .67 8/18 66 53 .54 8/19 67 48 8/20 70/ 50 8/21 63 52 8/22 73 49 8/23 66 52 trace 8/24 65 56 trace 8/25 66 59 .26 8/26 68 54 8/27 64 52 .02 8/28 57 51 .12 8/29 59 50 .29 8/30 60 49 .17
-Police responded to a complaint of a large con tainer parked on Broad way Street. The container was actively being load ed and it was there after parking restriction hours.
Aug. 31 -Dispatch assist ed with reuniting a lost wallet with its owner.
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Aug. 22 -A found An droid phone was turned -EMSin. assisted with a pa tient -Policetransfer.responded to a complaint of an RV camped where prohibit -Aed.debit card was report ed as -Policelost.responded to a report of erratic driving on Alaska Street.
-EMSed. assisted with two scheduled medevacs.
-A report of a rooster at large was received.
-Police responded to a report of dripping lights. The lights were unable to be located.
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-Dispatch helped contact Public Works to retrieve a phone which had been dropped in the board -Dispatchwalk. helped contact the on duty provider.
-EMS assisted with a scheduled medevac.
-A report of fraudulent jewelry purchased from a local business was re -Callerceived.was directed to the attorney general’s office.
-Police responded to a report of a stolen wallet. -Police responded to a domestic dispute. Both parties agreed to quiet down for the evening.
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Aug. 30 -EMS responded to a medical emergency. -Dispatch assisted with contacting the on duty -Dispatchprovider. assisted with contacting the on duty provider.
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