DIVE PRACTICUM – Dive student Karson Winslow hands a discarded garden hose to SCUBA instructor Haleigh Damron, standing on the dock, at Crescent Harbor this afternoon. The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus Dive Team is clearing trash from the harbor floor under floats 5, 6 and 7 as part of their instruction. Fourteen student divers are taking part this year. This is the fifth year the dive team has volunteered to clean up Sitka harbors. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Waste Compactor On Assembly Agenda Tues.
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
The Assembly at Tuesday’s meeting will consider an appropriation for a solid waste compactor; tidelands leases; and adding a land acknowledgment to the order of business at Assembly meetings.
Appointments, a liquor license renewal, a few special reports and a memorandum of understanding for a “pump” track for bicyclists next to the skate park also are on the agenda.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at Harrigan Centennial Hall, preceded by a work session at 5 with the Climate Action Task Force.
The ordinance related to the garbage compactor proposes to “increase appropriations in the amount of $3 million for the solid waste compactor project.”
Of that amount, $2.8 million would come from the Southeast Economic Development Fund and $210,000 from the city general fund.
The explanation section of the ordinance says:
“In order to comply with shipper requirements and to increase efficiency of off-island shipping, purchase and installation of a waste compaction system is needed. This is to be funded with a subsidy from the General Fund and a loan from the Southeast Economic Development Fund.”
The proposed purchase of a compactor is related to Republic Services’ request to the city to transition to compacted municipal solid waste in closed top containers to minimize fire danger during shipping, said the staff memo in the Assembly packet.
Under the staff analysis it says:
“Although adding a compactor to the transfer station will come with additional operational expenses, it is anticipated that increased compaction will create a net annual operating reduction of approximately $26,700,” the memo says. “In addition to being more fire resistant, closed top compacted waste will have the benefit of keeping garbage much less accessible to animals.” (The Sentinel will have more information on the proposal and background in Tuesday’s Sentinel.)
Up for final reading is an ordinance adding a Recital of Lands Acknowledgment to the introductory business at Assembly meeting. The item passed on first reading at the last Assembly meeting. If it passes on final reading, after the flag salute and before roll call, the mayor will recite the acknowledgment:
“The Assembly of the City and Borough of Sitka would like to respectfully acknowledge the traditional first people of Sheet’ Ká, with gratitude we proceed on Tlingit Aaní.”
In other business, the Assembly will discuss a tidelands lease seaward of 1406 Sawmill Creek Road for Sharon Williamson and Lisa Williamson; and a tidelands lease amendment between the city and Sitka Sound Science Center adding tidelands adjacent to 834 Lincoln Street.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Photo caption: Sitka High students in the guitar music class gather in the hall before the school’s spring concert. The concert was dedicated to music instructor Brad Howey, who taught more than 1,000 Sitka High students from 1993 to 2004. From left are Kristina Bidwell, Rachel Ulrich, Mitch Rusk, Nicholas Mitchell, Eris Weis and Joey Metz.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
The Fair Deal Association of Sealaska shareholders selected Nelson Frank as their candidate for the Sealaska Board of Directors at the ANB Hall Thursday.