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The Kodiak City Council has authorized a $35,000 economic analysis for expanding the city limits through annexation.
Research for the study will be led by Katie Cueva, an assistant professor of health policy with the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.Â
The study was authorized at a city council meeting on Thursday. Recent discussions about annexation have focused on extending the cityâs limits northward to include Kodiak Island Borough Service District Number 1, undeveloped city property and the city wastewater treatment plant.Â
The city is also talking about annexing areas southward, stretching from the cityâs southern border to Boy Scout Lake and the U.S. Coast Guard Lake Louise housing development.Â
The Kodiak Consolidation Committee voted last week to recommend a system based on at-large representatives, in which voters would cast ballots for all candidates in the borough rather than only