Finance committee holds public hearings on multiple ordinances including election-publication costs, school capital and ballot education funding

The Kenai Peninsula Borough finance committee on Aug. 19 took public comment and heard presentations on several ordinances and introductions covering election-publication costs, school capital projects, recorded state payments toward the borough’s PERS liability, and proposed funding for voter-information materials.

Publishing citizen initiatives: President Ribbons presented ordinance 20-25-19-03 to appropriate $6,500 from the general fund to cover publication costs for citizen initiative ordinances. Borough staff told the committee the clerk’s election notice for one proposition (Prop 1) came in with fewer pages than expected and that the $6,500 estimate covers the required publication; the clerk also said the election notice will include Proposition 5. Committee members raised whether additional funds will be needed if more measures are added to the ballot; the clerk said she does not foresee increasing the amount for the current ordinance.

Seward High School…