In the last half of Thursday’s regular meeting of the Ketchikan City Council, council members unanimously approved the hiring of three Ketchikan Police Department officers, and approved funding for the
The Ketchikan City Council on Monday evening finished an initial scrutiny of the proposed General Government and Ketchikan Public Utilities operating and capital budgets in its fifth budget meeting.
The Ketchikan City Council met on Wednesday evening for its fourth session to discuss the draft City of Ketchikan and Ketchikan Public Utilities 2022 General Operating and Capital budget.
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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.