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Assembly hears several ordinances: state-funded dispatch staffing, CAP/GRAMa grants, school repair grant and license recommendations
Summary
The Finance Committee considered ordinances to add two state-funded public-safety dispatch positions, accept $426,303 in CAP/GRAMa funds for unincorporated communities, accept a $3.95M DEED grant for Soldotna High School exterior repairs, and recommended letters of no objection for a Cooper Landing brewery transfer and multiple marijuana-license applications; no final votes were taken at the meeting.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Finance Committee reviewed multiple ordinance items and license requests during its meeting. Mayor Michicky and borough staff presented an ordinance to add two full-time public-safety dispatch positions to support dispatching for Southeast Alaska State Troopers; Tammy, speaking for dispatch, said the borough began that dispatching work May 1 and that "the costs are covered by DPS," adding that the positions would be funded only while state service continues.
Committee members thanked dispatch staff for the borough's…
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