The late Ginny Packer, who taught music at Blatchley Middle School for nearly two decades was honored by the Alaska Legislature earlier this year for her tremendous contribution to Sitka’s music education program. Sitkans remember her as a thoughtful and fearless educator with the power to transform students' lives.
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The City and Borough of Sitka is struggling to fill a large number of open positions. At the Sitka Assembly meeting last night/on Tuesday (7-23-24), Municipal Administrator John Leach said there are 42 vacant city jobs.
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The Sitka Assembly will interview a former Sitka Superior Court magistrate for the open city attorney job.
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Tonight (7-23-24), the Sitka Assembly will consider on final reading, whether to put two ballot propositions out to voters this fall. If approved in the October 1 municipal election, both would make small changes to city code.
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Robert Hattle filed to run for a seat on the Sitka Assembly last week. KCAW’s Katherine Rose spoke with Hattle about why he’s throwing his hat in the ring, and what issues he’ll focus on, should he win a seat in the October 1 municipal election.
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Mayor Steven Eisenbeisz filed to run for reelection last week (7-17-24). KCAW spoke with Eisenbeisz about his decision to run for a third term as Sitka’s mayor, maintaining city projects and managing the city’s economic growth, and why he thinks tourism is “the question of our generation.”
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The filing period opened earlier this week to run for local office in Sitka. On Tuesday, Assembly member Kevin Mosher filed to run for reelection. KCAW’s Katherine Rose spoke with Mosher about his last two terms and what his goals are, should he be re-elected for a third.
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The filing period for Sitka’s municipal election opens Monday (7-15-24).
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Sitka’s airport improvement project is slightly ahead of schedule and on budget. That’s according to airport terminal manager Joseph Bea, who shared an update on the project with the Sitka Assembly on July 9. Bea said they’ve spent around $4 million so far, around one third of the money needed to complete the first phase of the project. That includes the purchase of Sitka’s only escalator.
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Voters could see two propositions to update the city’s charter on the municipal election ballot this October. At its regular meeting on July 9, the assembly approved the draft propositions on first reading. But a third, dealing with how funds from the former Sitka Community Hospital fund should be spent, failed to gain the assembly’s support.
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