Author: Katherine Rose

The Sitka Assembly will interview a former Sitka Superior Court magistrate for the open city attorney job.

Tonight (7-23-24), the Sitka Assembly will consider on final reading, whether to put two ballot propositions out to voters this fall. If approved in the October 1 municipal election, both would make small changes to city code. 

The filing period opened earlier this week to run for local office in Sitka. On Tuesday, Assembly member Kevin Mosher filed to run for reelection. KCAW’s Katherine Rose spoke with Mosher about his last two terms and what his goals are, should he be re-elected for a third.

Sitka’s airport improvement project is slightly ahead of schedule and on budget. That’s according to airport terminal manager Joseph Bea, who shared an update on the project with the Sitka Assembly on July 9. Bea said they’ve spent around $4 million so far, around one third of the money needed to complete the first phase of the project. That includes the purchase of Sitka’s only escalator. 

Voters could see two propositions to update the city’s charter on the municipal election ballot this October. At its regular meeting on July 9, the assembly approved the draft propositions on first reading. But a third, dealing with how funds from the former Sitka Community Hospital fund should be spent, failed to gain the assembly’s support.

When the Sitka Assembly meets tonight, it will discuss adopting an “action plan” to enact recent recommendations from its tourism task force.

A third proposed ballot initiative to limit cruise traffic in Sitka was denied by the city on Tuesday (7-2-24).