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Kodiak Island Borough assembly members continued to wrestle with the draft fiscal year 2022 budget at a special work session Tuesday.
The work session, requested by Borough Mayor Bill Roberts, examined two proposed alternatives to the borough managerâs draft budget and its amended cut.
Both alternatives were drafted by two groups of assembly members â one by Duane Dvorak and Geoff Smith, and the other by James Turner, Scott Arndt and Aimee Williams.Â
The two budget amendments propose to preserve nonprofit funding requested by the assembly on May 20 while avoiding drastic cuts that the managerâs revised draft made to the community development department.
With nonprofit funding still determined at the borough level, several community members spoke out in support of Kodiak College and education in general at Thursdayâs Kodiak Island Borough Assembly meeting.
The assembly has yet to adopt the fiscal year 2022 budget; the most recent borough managerâs draft budget shows zero allocations for nonprofits, including Kodiak College and Kodiak Public Library.
The Kodiak JumpStart program was the center star in the show of support. The program provides lower tuition costs at $100 a credit, up to six credit hours, for first-time college fall freshmen, and $100, up to six credits, for high school students in dual-enrollment programs.