Four months after the previous city administrator’s dismissal, the city’s top job has been filled. And filling other city jobs will soon be a bit easier. On a 4-3 vote, the Sitka Assembly voted to lift a hiring freeze and dissolve a “position” subcommittee enacted last spring.
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Sitka has a downtown bear. Residents around Swan Lake have recently called in numerous reports of a brown bear getting into trash cans, raiding chicken coops -- and even swimming in the lake.
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The Sitka School Board has a new member. Paul Rioux was sworn in when the school board met Friday (10/11/19) night. And it has a new president too.
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The long-delayed sale of the old utility dock at Sitka’s industrial park is being delayed again, over concerns about the possible moorage of large ships at the brand new industrial dock next door.
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The brand new Mt. Edgecumbe High School Aquatic Center in Sitka has been open to students for all of two semesters, and is scheduled now to be closed -- permanently -- at the end of December.
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The newly elected members of the Sitka Assembly were seated Tuesday night (10-8-19) and they weren’t the only new faces added to the fold- the assembly appointed a long-term interim city administrator.
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When the Sitka Assembly meets tonight (10/8/19) new assembly members will be sworn in. But not until after last year’s assembly takes up a few items of old business- notably, approving the employment agreement between John Leach and the city of Sitka.
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After hearing two weeks of testimony, a Sitka jury must decide whether or not to award a former New Archangel Dancer $3.7 million in damages for an injury she sustained while rehearsing for the 2016 Alaska Day Celebration.
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Sitkans turned out for the local municipal election Tuesday (10/1/19) and returned two familiar candidates to the Sitka Assembly. Incumbent Kevin Knox and former assembly member Thor Christianson received a lionshare of the votes -- Knox led with 1140, and Christianson with 948.
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A Coast Guard aeronautical engineer based in Washington DC will get an offer to work as Sitka’s next city administrator. The assembly decided on Cmdr. John Leach, following an interview with the runner-up last Friday (9-27-19).
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