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Kodiak Community Health Center seeks borough sign‑off to secure federal expansion funds
Summary
Kodiak Community Health Center requested assembly support for a Notice of Federal Interest so it can obligate roughly $7.8 million in federal funds to expand clinic space; the grant limits force renovation rather than new ground‑up construction and the center is evaluating renovation versus relocating into abated mental‑health buildings.
Kodiak Community Health Center CEO Oliver Wilson urged the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly on March 12 to back a Notice of Federal Interest (NFI) so the clinic can obligate congressionally directed funds for a clinic expansion. "We are literally bursting out of our seams," Wilson said, describing crowded clinical space and constrained access for patients.
Wilson told the assembly the center has about $7.8 million in directed federal funds that flow through federal health agencies and carry conditions that prohibit new ground‑up construction. That restriction, he said, makes renovation of existing space or adding…
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