Petersburg Borough Assembly approves budget changes, rezoning and utility contracts; rejects cruise-dock drawing spending

Petersburg Borough Assembly on July 7 approved a set of ordinances, budget amendments, bid awards and administrative resolutions, and rejected a proposal to pay $1,500 for updated drawings related to a proposed American Cruise Line dock.

The assembly passed ordinance 2025-11 to rezone a parcel at 1016 Sandy Beach Road from rural residential to single-family residential and approved ordinance 2025-12, a supplemental FY2026 budget adjustment, after adopting two assembly amendments that added library repairs funding and reallocated school maintenance funds to cover a school bond payment.

The assembly also approved bid awards and contracts recommended by borough staff, including a storage-building addition for Skow Bay to Steelhead Enterprises for an amount not to exceed $100,000 and a generator step-up transformer procurement to GD Partners for an amount not to exceed $274,273.75. A rental-agreement item allowing the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department to use a borough address for proof-of-residence purposes passed, as did a routine resolution updating borough financial signatories (Resolution 2025-13) and a resolution opposing sale of public lands (Resolution 2025-14).

A separate motion to authorize PND (P and D) engineers to prepare an updated, scalable aerial drawing of the proposed American Cruise Line dock (Concept 7) for $1,500 failed on a roll call vote.

Why this matters: the budget amendments and the bond-payment transfer change where borough money is held and how facility repairs are funded; the transformer and storage-building awards affect utility operations and readiness; and the assembly’s resolution on public lands formalizes the…