The City and Borough of Sitka Assembly held a regular meeting on July 8, 2025, at 6:00 PM in Assembly Chambers. The meeting covered quarterly department reports, public comments, consent agenda, unfinished business including a charter amendment to fund athletic and recreational facilities, and new business including Arctic Blue Waters contract extension, port tariff adjustments, and funding for Visit Sitka services. Several votes were taken, and the assembly provided direction on Lincoln Street closures and the process for securing a new Visit Sitka operator.
Well, welcome everybody. Thank you for joining us tonight. I will call to order the regularly scheduled meeting of Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. 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 Clinkett Ani. Sarah Oll Call, please. Mayor Eisenbais. Present. Mr. Yestad. Here. Mr. Christensen. Here. Mr. Mosier. Here. Mr. Celine? Here. And Mr. Pike is absent this evening. Great, thank you. Any correspondence or agenda changes? Ah, seeing none, that'll bring us into special reports. Uh our scheduled special reports this evening are the department department quarterly reports. I will start with public works, please. I thought you were gonna wear your bright orange vest, the whole bright yellow vest the whole time. Give us all something stunning to stare at. Or the beard or the beard. Good evening, Mayor and Assembly. Mark TV, I'm the asset manager and interim public works director. Uh for our department in the last quarter, we are now 98% filled through positions. We have one FTE position that is still vacant, and that is the director job. That is including we have three positions through the reorganization that are moving to the planning department, our building official, building inspector, and a plans reviewer examiner. We do anticipate one of those will be coming open. We've received notice that our plans examiner is going to be leaving, uh, but for the public works department, we'll still be 98% filled. For the budget, we were 94% spent at the end of the fiscal year with another two percent encumbered. So once those final transactions are processed, we anticipate having spent 96% of the budget for the department. For our projects in the last quarter, we've wrapped up our critical secondary water supply, which is an older project with some in-stream work uh coordinated with the electrical department. We've had some key personnel out from the water department, so we haven't completed the final testing and acceptance of that work, but we're anticipating doing the final completion by the end of this month. Uh we will be starting on our biosolids expansion project, and that one will be due this fall. Uh the City Hall HVAC project has wrapped up with about 90% of the work complete. Um we're anticipating the contract will be back at the end of this month to do some final balancing, and then that project will be complete as well. We've signed uh substantial and final completion for the Crescent Harbor Restroom Project. As that one is complete. Uh we have the Thompson Harbor lift station project.