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Assembly enacts ethics reform and creates Public Safety Communications department; several routine funding items set on consent
Summary
The assembly unanimously enacted an ordinance combining dual-service and incompatibility code sections and removing a one-year hiring ban for former assembly members, and enacted creation of a Department of Public Safety Communications (911 dispatch). Multiple consent-agenda funding and lease items were approved with little debate.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on April 21 enacted two ordinances that will change borough governance and public-safety administration.
The assembly enacted Ordinance 20-26-09, which consolidates borough code sections concerning dual-service prohibitions and incompatibility of offices and removes a one-year hiring ban on former assembly members. The motion to enact was made by Chair Truesdell and passed by unanimous consent after a period for public hearing (no members of the public testified on the ordinance).
The assembly also enacted Ordinance 20-26-12, which formally recognizes the 911 dispatch (public safety…
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