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Kodiak Island Borough approves multi-part FY2026 budget amendment including nonprofit and pool funding
Summary
The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly unanimously adopted ordinance FY2026-01A on April 16, 2026, approving 12 budget transfers and returns to account for over-budget revenues, canceled projects, and to advance capital work including nonprofit funding, pool evaluation, and mental health building abatement.
The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly on April 16 unanimously adopted ordinance FY2026-01A, approving a package of 12 budget transfers and returns to adjust fiscal year 2026 appropriations.
Borough Manager Amy Williams told the Assembly during the final public hearing, “There are 12 requests and we're going to walk you through all 12 since this is the final public hearing.” The requests included a $92,934 transfer from the general fund balance for nonprofit funding, a $120,000 transfer for underground-storage-tank removal at the annex building, a $50,000 transfer for Monashka Bay Road maintenance planning, and a $70,000 transfer for community pool evaluation and repairs.
The ordinance also returns funds from projects that changed scope or completed: $785,750.09 was returned to the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center fund after cancellation of a decontamination project, $14,705.81 and $39,316.21 were returned following completed projects, and $92,523.56 was returned from a borough building abatement project. A $463,334.94 transfer funded final payment related to mental health building abatement and remediation; a $332,354.74 return was recorded after the Assembly rejected a landfill scale-shack contract.
Manager Williams explained these transfers permit completed work to be closed out, to meet state remediation requirements, and to continue design or final payments for ongoing capital projects. No public speakers came forward on the ordinance during the public hearing. Mr. Whiteside moved adoption; the roll-call vote recorded Mr. Ames, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Johnson, Ms. Roberts, Mr. Smiley, Mr. Whiteside and Mr. Woods as voting yes. The motion passed unanimously.
The Assembly did not attach additional conditions to the budget amendment. The manager and finance staff will reflect the transfers in the borough’s accounting records and the public packet will display the amended fund balances.
Next steps: the transfers are effective following ordinance adoption and staff will implement the projects and returns described in the manager’s report.
