The City and Borough of Sitka Assembly held its regular meeting on October 14, 2025, at 6:00 PM in Assembly Chambers. The meeting included special reports, public testimony, consent agenda approval, ceremonial recognition of outgoing and incoming members, and key decisions on paid parking at the airport, a grant for body-worn cameras, liquor and marijuana license renewals, a cooperative resource management agreement, and meeting rescheduling. Major votes were 6-0 in favor for most items.
Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Uh call to order the October 14th assembly meeting. Please join me for a flag salute. 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 Clinkettani. Uh Sarah, roll call, please. Mr. Pike. Here. Ms. Carlson. Here. Mr. Yestad. Here. Mr. Christensen. Here. Mr. Mosher. Here. Mr. Steline. Here. And Mayor Isenbiz is absent. Thank you. Uh item five. Are there any correspondence or agenda change changes this evening? Seeing none, we'll move on to the special reports. Today we have special reports from public works. We'll start with public works. Mark CD. Good evening, assembly. Mark CV, public works director. For position allocation, since last time we've talked, we're now at 39 out of 43. We've dropped to 91%. That is mainly due to my movement into the public works director, which was previously the only vacant role. Additionally, we've had our public works contractor representative move to the electric department and fill their vacant position. And we have had two building and maintenance specialists move one to the harbor department and one left the state. For those candidates, asset manager currently has six in the OGOVs. We're working on selecting interviews for those with a target list of 15. We've had views for our public works contract manager position, but no candidates yet. And we currently have two candidates for a vacant building maintenance technician with one additional that was directed by the assembly for a new FTE. Additionally, we've completed traffic control training here on site for our public works staff for traffic control technicians and supervisors. We've had a member complete their CDL training. Personnel wise, we've also completed a uh lead service line inventory for our water department, which is a big lift for them. We've also gotten back into school season, which has been a large part of our our maintenance efforts is getting everything squared away as the school season starts off. We now have the operational haul out, which is dedicated some building maintenance time, and we're also working on our winterization plans right now. Additionally, we've also had our uh second code required household hazardous waste event, which is kind of new for us.