Borough manager reports Dark Lake dumpster relocation, landfill inspections and staff updates; callers raise tax-filing and nonprofit funding issues

Borough Manager Amy Williams told the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly on Oct. 16 that dumpsters at the Dark Lake site will be temporarily relocated at the end of October and that staff have secured private landowners’ permission to use nearby property and installed cameras to discourage illegal dumping and identify vehicles.

Manager’s report and operational items: Williams said Alaska Waste will move the dumpsters and that the borough will advertise the change so residents have notice. “Cameras will be taking pictures of all vehicles going in and out so we can easily identify who had waste on the way in and who does not on the way out,” Williams said. She added that the borough recently completed a joint inspection of landfill fence repairs with Alaska Fish and Game and the contractor and reported several bear sightings during the inspection; Williams said an Alaska Fish and Game staffer temporarily left and returned with a personal firearm because a bear had come uncomfortably close to the…