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Kodiak Island Borough assembly members were asked to review and score 11 applications for the vacant borough manager’s position at Thursday’s work session.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced his proposed operating and capital budgets for the 2023 fiscal year on Wednesday. Money will be flowing into Kodiak’s schools but not into the island’s infrastructure.

A high-level budget discussion took place at the Kodiak Island Borough School District Board of Education retreat Saturday, with Superintendent Larry LeDoux providing context based on historical data.

Kodiak Island Borough assembly members continued to wrestle with the draft fiscal year 2022 budget at a special work session Tuesday. The work session, requested by Borough Mayor Bill Roberts, examined two proposed alternatives to the borough manager’s draft budget and its amended cut. Both alternatives were drafted by two groups of assembly members — one by Duane Dvorak and Geoff Smith, and the other by James Turner, Scott Arndt and Aimee Williams.  The two budget amendments propo...

Volunteer firefighters at Bayside Fire Station will be getting higher stipends after Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and the Fire Protection Area 1 Committee both voted to give them more money.