The Sitka Assembly is happy with the performance of the city administrator and city attorney over the past year. Both top city staffers received satisfactory reviews from the assembly in a special meeting Thursday night
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Both city and Sitka Tribe applications for CARES Act funding went live this week.
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Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer made an appearance at the Sitka Assembly meeting on Tuesday (6-23-20). She reviewed local data, discussed “contact tracing,” and clarified why some of Sitka’s early coronavirus cases still aren't considered "false positives."
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Sitka health officials announced a new coronavirus case this morning (6-25-20).The patient is in his forties. and is a resident who recently flew into town from out of state. The release from the Sitka Unified Command does not say what airline he flew with.
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Alaska’s Chief Medical officer will be paying a visit to Sitka’s Assembly, when it meets for a regular session on Tuesday (6-23-20).
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A southeast Alaska town greeted its first ferry in nearly nine months on Saturday.
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The Sitka Assembly is moving forward with a plan to divvy up the remaining $9.5 million in federal coronavirus relief, but a working group still needs to iron out some of the details before the budget is finalized.
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Around 150 Sitkans marched on Friday (6-19-20) to commemorate Juneteenth. The holiday celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Specifically, it acknowledges the day in 1865 when enslaved people Texas finally received word of their liberation, over two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Sitka’s coronavirus count reached 14 on Friday. Two new cases were announced in a press release on Friday evening.
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When it meets in a special session tonight (6-18-10), the Sitka Assembly will consider how to spend the city’s remaining $9.5 million in federal coronavirus relief funds.
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