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Kenai Peninsula Borough struggles to fill landfill leadership post as pay lags competitors
Summary
Borough officials said recruitment for the landfill director position has stalled because local pay ranges are below competing employers; the administration created an interim operations manager role and plans to contract certain environmental work while continuing recruitment.
Mayor (name not specified in transcript) told the Policies and Procedures Committee that the borough has been unable to fill the senior landfill position because the boroughpay range is below offers from outside employers.
"It's not going well. We've had a couple of finalists that no one qualified in state, in my opinion," the Mayor said, adding that candidates turned down offers because "we're competing with departments in the lower 48 that are…
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