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Volunteers urge assembly to reject tighter meeting rules, approve higher stipend for Service District 1
Summary
Residents and elected service-district members told the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly that proposed ordinance changes tightening vacancy/removal rules would hurt volunteer boards and urged a chairman stipend increase from $400 to $800.
Residents and elected members of local service districts urged the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly on April 10 to reconsider proposed ordinance changes that would shorten the allowable number of missed meetings and to support a request to raise the Service District 1 chairman stipend.
Multiple speakers said the proposed amendments to ordinance sections concerning vacancies and meetings would unduly penalize volunteer board members with seasonal work schedules and other obligations. They asked the assembly to preserve current attendance rules and to allow the local board to excuse absences.
Service District 1 Vice Chair Jason Bunch said the vacancy proposal—identified in his remarks as ordinance “415040a7”—would reduce the number of missed board meetings that trigger consequences from three to two and would remove the…
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