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Kodiak Island Borough Assembly approves IT storage purchase, advances multiple ordinances and declines to protest El Chicano liquor renewal
Summary
At its Sept. 18 meeting the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly unanimously authorized an IT storage purchase, advanced four ordinances to public hearing, approved the sale process for two foreclosed properties, adopted administrative bylaws and declined to protest the renewal of El Chicano's beverage dispensary license.
The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly on Sept. 18 unanimously authorized a $52,786 purchase of enterprise storage, advanced four ordinances for public hearing, accepted Planning and Zoning bylaw revisions, and voted not to protest a state liquor-license renewal for El Chicano Mexican Restaurant.
The enterprise storage purchase authorizes the borough manager to execute contract FY2026-13 with USI Corporation for an HP Nimble storage array replacement and one year of support. Information-technology staff said the current array has reached end-of-life and an outage would severely impact borough systems.
Why it matters: the storage upgrade affects the borough’s core servers and services; replacing end-of-life hardware reduces the risk of prolonged outages and supports the finance and assessing software migrations the borough is undertaking.
The assembly also moved several code updates forward to public hearing: ordinances FY2026-07 (compensation for regulatory and quasi-judicial boards and commissions), FY2026-08 (process for good-cause exemption hearings), FY2026-09 (clarifying assessor roles and correction-of-assessment procedures), and FY2026-10…
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