This special meeting of the Sitka City and Borough Assembly focused on the fiscal year 2026 budget, including the Capital Improvements Program (CIP), enterprise funds, internal service funds, and the general fund. Key discussions centered on asset management, project prioritization, rate increases, and deficit reduction. The assembly voted on several items, including removing a $30,000 animal shelter HVAC project from the CIP and adopting option one for balancing the general fund deficit.
Thank you for joining us on our special meeting of Wednesday, March 12th, 2025. I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. Please join me for a flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The Assembly of the City and Borough of Sitka would like to respectfully acknowledge the traditional first people of Sheetka. With gratitude, we proceed on Clinkitani. Sarah Roll Call, please. Mayor Eisenbais. Present. Mr. Pike. Here. Ms. Carlson. Here. Mr. Yestad. Here. Mr. Christensen. Here. Mr. Mosier. Here. And Mr. Selene. Here. Thank you. Bring us two persons to be heard. This is public participation for any item off of tonight's agenda, not to exceed three minutes for any individual. Seeing none, we'll jump right into our new business this evening. So we're going to start with a discussion direction decision on the fiscal year 26 capital improvements program. John and Melissa have an introduction to this one. And then the assembly can jump in with uh further questions, comments, and deliberation on this. So, John. Thanks, Mayor. Actually, uh Ron and Mark are going to take the lead on this one. Uh they've spent some uh time over the past few months um putting together a consolidated capital list. Uh this is all part of our efforts with asset management and trying to get kind of that that total asset visibility on everything that we have, everything we're responsible for, um, kind of the repair timelines, replacement timelines, um, you know, um proposed sources of funding. Uh, but now that they've been able to kind of pool all the public works and uh and electric department assets together and uh work through that list of risk scoring everything. Uh I wanted to take the opportunity to have them show that product to you all and uh kind of show how some of the filtering works and and then open it to uh assembly questions. All right, so I'll give a look at easy all right. All right. Good evening. My name is Ron Venson. I'm the uh electric utility director. Um and tonight, uh as you can see up on the screen here. Um Mark's brought up um our capital improvement plan, the capital improvement plan. Uh this spreadsheet is a tool that we've um increasingly been using over the last couple years um to basically outline all of the data that has to do with our capital improvement um projects.