The city’s months-long budget process is nearly finished. When the Sitka Assembly met last night (5-14-24), it approved the general fund and enterprise fund budgets for next fiscal year, on first reading.
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The City and Borough of Sitka is out over $60,000 after a cyber scammer intercepted a payment intended for a contractor.
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When the Sitka Assembly meets tonight (5-14-24), it will consider approving the city’s general fund and enterprise fund budgets for next fiscal year.
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Sitka doesn’t have a new municipal attorney yet, but after the second round of interviews the city is inviting one job candidate to visit for a community ‘meet and greet.’
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Youth Advocates of Sitka (YAS) will likely get a property tax exemption for a duplex the nonprofit owns on Halibut Point Road, but only for one year, to give the organization time to establish a new program for teens.
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Austin Cranford, pictured here shortly after he filed to run for a seat on the Sitka Assembly in...
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In late March, a local whale biologist spotted something out of place in Sitka Sound. She’s still having a hard time believing it, but pictures suggest an incredibly rare sighting– a juvenile bowhead whale.
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The city will begin collecting more money from car rental companies in Sitka this fall. When the Sitka Assembly met last night, on a 5-1 vote it approved an increase to the city’s driver facility charge from four to eight percent.
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A Sitka man was indicted in March for reckless driving and resisting arrest after a high speed car chase. Other Sitkans were indicted on charges of forgery and sex abuse.
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The Sitka Assembly is calling for the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, or SEARHC (like search), to reconsider a decision it made last fall to close its home health department. The assembly unanimously approved a resolution at its meeting on April 9.
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