Kenai Peninsula Borough

Materials taken from the site will be used to widen the Sterling Highway between Sterling and Soldotna. That stretch of the road is recognized by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities as having higher-than-normal rates of serious vehicle accidents driven in part by busy summer traffic patterns.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough wants to limit how much property assessments increase each year in response to recent, significant year-over-year surges.

The field trip was meant to teach students about how their local government works.

The borough is spending more than $20,000 to remind taxpayers of the Feb. 15 deadline with mailers.

A large outage Thursday night left almost 15,000 Homer Electric Association members without power.

As passed earlier this month, the ordinance capped senior property tax exemptions at $375,000.

The new members won’t take their seats on the dais until the next assembly meeting later this month.

The stretch of road is one of only two ways to get between the two communities and has a higher car crash rate than the statewide average. It also has the second-highest rate of moose collisions in the state.

Currently, eligible property owners can exempt the first $50,000 of their property’s assessed value from borough taxes. If the ballot proposition passes, that exemption would increase to $75,000.

Kelli Parker says her complaints to the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Human Resources Department went unaddressed for months.