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Borough presents two consent‑agenda appropriations and a shared fisheries allocation resolution for public hearing
Summary
The finance committee introduced an ordinance to add $10,000 to a road service vehicle plow appropriation, an ordinance to appropriate state reimbursements for Goldstream Creek fire response, and a resolution proposing an alternate FY26 shared fisheries allocation that the borough expects will yield just over $800 this year.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough finance committee reviewed two ordinances placed on the consent agenda and a resolution on the FY26 shared fisheries business tax allocation during the same meeting that heard the Alaska Department of Labor forecast.
Chair Neeson introduced Ordinance 2025‑19‑22, to appropriate additional funds from the road service area capital project fund for purchase and installation of a plow on a new vehicle. Mayor Michicky said the borough originally appropriated $120,000 for two pickups with plows and the ordinance requests a roughly $10,000 supplement "to cover that delta." The chair noted these items are eligible for the consent agenda and are up for public hearing.
The committee then reviewed Ordinance 2025‑19‑23, which would appropriate forestry funds to reimburse personnel expenditures incurred supporting the 2025 Goldstream Creek fire. Brandy (addressed in the meeting as "Brandy" and later as "Miss Harbaugh") explained the ordinance requests appropriation of the state reimbursement that Bear Creek Fire already spent and reported specific figures to place the reimbursement in the borough budget: she referenced "$41,257" and noted "$56,910 are revenues above and beyond for the use of their apparatus" and said those apparatus‑related revenues would be transferred to the capital project fund for future replacement of capital items.
On the resolution to adopt an alternate allocation method for the FY26 shared fisheries business tax program (identified in the meeting as Resolution 2026‑66), Brandy said the method splits one half of the money evenly among jurisdictions and the other half by population. She told the committee the borough expects to receive "just over $800" under this program this year (compared with "just over $900" last year) and that the borough would not be receiving the landing tax this year, reducing the total available.
Committee member Mister Tanziq asked for historical context on what pays into the shared fisheries program and whether amounts were larger in prior years; Brandy replied she believed amounts were larger when more processing occurred outside borough boundaries but that she would need to verify historical figures.
No formal votes were recorded on these items during the meeting transcript; all three were presented for public hearing and noted eligible for the consent agenda.
