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Elam is currently serving his second term on the Borough Assembly. He filed to run in District 8, the seat currently represented by Ben Carpenter.
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Most members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly and the mayor sponsored a resolution calling on the state legislature for a timely, inflation-proof increase to per-student funding.
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted in a new invocation policy last night, which will allow volunteer chaplains to give invocations, rather than members of the public. In 2018, a previous borough invocation policy was found unconstitutional in Alaska Superior Court.
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The borough assembly will take up a resolution tonight that would only allow chaplains to give invocations before meetings. The borough opened invocations to anyone, regardless of religious affiliation, in 2018, following a lawsuit brought by the ACLU.
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In a resolution, the assembly estimates east side set-netters lost a collective $7 million after the fishery was closed this past season. They're asking the governor to declare an economic disaster.
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The borough assembly, board of education and many city governments across the peninsula have new incoming members. The City of Kenai will certify its elections tomorrow.
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Despite lengthy testimony at the last two public hearings, the code revision passed after little public comment and a unanimous vote from the assembly.
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Polls opened at 7 a.m. for today's municipal election, which includes races for city councils, the borough assembly, school board and more. Check KDLL throughout the evening for updated election results.
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A resolution, sponsored outgoing Assembly Member Richard Derkevorkian, asks the state legislature to allow term limits for school boards.
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In a public hearing Tuesday night, more than a dozen gravel pit operators turned out to share grievances with the assembly's latest gravel pit code revision. The assembly hopes to take a final vote within the month.