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The Ketchikan City Council in a regular meeting scheduled for Thursday is set to consider approving the City of Ketchikan’s 2023 General Operating and Capital budget, as well as the
Ketchikan City Council nixes proposed pay cuts, green-lights tourism strategy, OKs guns-for-armor trade
Posted by Eric Stone | May 10, 2021
Aerial view of Ketchikan (KRBD).
Ketchikan’s City Council rejected a cost-cutting proposal to reduce city employees’ weekly hours. The council also green-lit funding for a community tourism strategy and OK’d a proposal to trade forfeited guns for body armor.
Back in March, as city officials grappled with the fiscal impact of a second summer without cruise ships, four city council members floated cuts to city employees’ hours as a money-saving measure.
City finance officials estimate that cutting the city’s non-union workforce back to four days a week for the remainder of the year would save more than $1 million.
The Ketchikan City Council in its regular meeting Thursday will consider approving spending $20,000 to co-fund a Community Tourism Strategy Project with the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Planning Department.
According to a memo written by Assistant City Manager Lacey Simpson and attached to Thursdayâs meeting agenda, the council in its June 20, 2019 meeting approved the expenditure of the $20,000 for the program, but it was set aside when the COVID-19 challenges arrived and the money was not spent.
According to information written by Borough Planning Director Richard Harney and included in the agenda packet, the borough approved $80,000 to support the program.
Harney wrote, âAs the ships will begin sailing again, the strategy is ready to be pursued.â