It was another late night Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting Tuesday night...and it continued Wednesday morning. The assembly recessed at midnight, and reconvened in the morning at 9 a.m. They were in the middle of discussing the budget ordinance last night, and then approved it Wednesday morning. First, several amendments were made to the mayor's proposal. His budget zeroed out some so-called "non-departmental" funding. The mayor already included funding for Kenai Peninsula College. And the assembly has reinstated funding for some of the other organizations.
They have included $25,000 for CARTS, the Central Area Rural Transit System, $300,000 for Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council, $40,000 for the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District, and $105,000 for the Small Business Development Center.
Those items had moments of contention, but one new item was not debated at all and passed unanimously: the idea of saving money by closing landfills and transfer facilities one day-a-week in the winter. The assembly heard briefly about that idea during a committee meeting Tuesday. KDLL's Ben Stanton reports.
Assembly funds and transfer site closings
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