Borough amends budget to reduce contribution to school district
Posted by Maria Dudzak | May 5, 2021
The Ketchikan Gateway Borough looks set to reduce its contribution to the Ketchikan School District. This came as the borough assembly took its first steps toward approving a $55.6 million borough-wide budget and $48.1 million school district budget.
The Assembly voted Monday to decrease the borough’s contribution to the school district by $153,490 less than 2% of its nearly $11 million appropriation to Ketchikan’s public schools.
During discussion, several assembly members expressed support for reducing the local contribution, including Jeremy Bynum who initially suggested a $200,000 cut.
“I don’t think it’s an enormous amount, and I think that they can make adjustments to account for it.”
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â With several community risk indicators on the rise and 12 new virus cases counted on Tuesday, the EOC changed the Community Risk Level from Level 2 (Moderate) to Level 3 (High).
More than 10 cases of COVID-19 have been connected to Ketchikan High School in the past 10 days, prompting a closure of Kayhi and the cancellation of activities through Monday.
The change in the Community Risk Level was announced in a Tuesday evening joint release from the EOC and the Ketchikan School District. We have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in the past couple of weeks, including increase in community spread cases, the release read. There are 12 new cases reported in Ketchikan today, and nine cases reported on Monday.
Posted by Angela Denning | Apr 30, 2021
This sign is posted on the door of the Petersburg Post Office. (Photo by Angela Denning/KFSK)
April 30, 2021 Notes from KFSK’s Bi-Weekly COVID-19 Panel Discussion
Petersburg Borough’s Emergency Operations Center Incident Commander Karl Hagerman Incident Commander
–We are happy to report that there are no active cases in Petersburg right now. Things are looking pretty good, the risk level in Petersburg is really low, we’re at yellow, and we’re really happy to see that.
–As we get closer to the Little Norway Festival, I want to thank all the event planners that have submitted mitigation plans for their events and functions. It really helps the community to stay safe and keep our risk level low. Planning for those mitigations and making sure that participations and volunteers are safe during the festival is really important so we appreciate that. The Chamber of Commerce has been working diligently on that as well. They are co
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center recorded two new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, one of which was found to be connected to a recent cluster of cases stemming from weekend events at Ketchikan High School, which prompted an extension of Kayhiâs in-person learning closure through the weekend.
âOne of the new cases remains under investigation and one of the cases is a close contact to a known positive case,â according to the joint media release from the EOC and the Ketchikan School District.
The release also stated that one of the cases was connected to Kayhi.
Kayhi was set to reopen for in-person learning on Thursday after being closed on Wednesday due to five cases linked to the school, but âthe complexity of the contact tracingâ for the cases led the building closure to be extended through Friday.
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