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Kenai Peninsula Borough finance committee reviews tower leases, school septic funding and volunteer fire grants
Summary
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Finance Committee heard presentations on multiple ordinances and a resolution, including a $10-per-year Cooper Landing lease, a proposed GCI lease with a proposed $2,000/month rent, a roughly $250,000 septic replacement reallocation for Nikiski North Star Elementary, reimbursement for a Kenai Health Center alarm replacement, and several VFC grants requiring a 10% match.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Finance Committee met to review several ordinances and a resolution affecting communications sites, school infrastructure, personnel classifications and grant acceptance. Committee members and staff heard presentations and asked clarifying questions; no formal votes were recorded during the session.
Mr. Hughes presented Ordinance 2026-13, a public-hearing item to authorize a noncommercial communications-site lease with the Cooper Landing Community Club Inc. He said the tower site has a “convoluted” chain of title that traces from the U.S. Forest Service to the state and ultimately the Kenai Peninsula Borough, and that the lease will require a merger-of-title affidavit as a condition. “Lease amount is $10 per year,” Mr. Hughes said, noting an initial five-year term with options to renew and reserved tower space for borough uses.
The committee also reviewed an appropriation ordinance to redirect previously appropriated funds from a Nanilchik school septic replacement project to the Nikiski North…
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