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Borough Mayor Peter Micciche, who authored the ordinances, says they're a response to one individual who has harassed borough employees and made unreasonable records requests.
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The mayor’s office has been gathering community input on the current website, which they say is hard to navigate. On Tuesday, the Borough Assembly approved a $90,000 contract for the work.
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The new design is part of the borough's larger public relations plan. The logo simpler, with few colors, and cheaper to reproduce.
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January 1, 2024 marked the rollout of new regulations for Alaska's breweries and distilleries. Taprooms will now be able to stay open an hour later, host four live events a year and sell their products directly to consumers.
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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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An ordinance, brought by the mayor, describes the current logo as dated, difficult to scale and too detailed. The new proposed logo features simpler colors and design. The assembly will vote on the new logo on Jan. 16.
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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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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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In a meeting organized by Mayor Peter Micciche, home-school parents told district officials about their motivations to choose the district-run program Connections, or other schools.