The Ketchikan City Council on Thursday at its regular meeting is set to decide whether to approve an increase of the cityâs property mill rate from 6.6 mills to 6.7 mills in addition to considering approval of an emergency ordinance extension and an amended emergency ordinance.
Raising the mill rate by 0.1 mill, according to a memo written by City Manager Karl Amylon, would generate an additional $86,888 in property tax revenue. That increased revenue, however, would still fall short by $19,472 of the $5.84 million that was projected to be collected when the 2021 general operating and capital budget was adopted.
The council has two proposed motions to choose between, one that would adopt a resolution that maintains the mill rate at 6.6 mills and one that increases the rate to 6.7 mills.
Council to mull cutbacks in Ketchikan city employees’ hours, but survey says employees aren’t on board
Posted by Eric Stone | May 6, 2021
Ketchikan’s city hall on June 11, 2020. (Maria Dudzak/KRBD)
City leaders in Ketchikan are considering whether to cut back city workers’ hours to save money as the city faces a budget crunch. Members of the City Council floated the idea back in March, but a recent survey says most employees don’t like the idea.
The city says reducing its full-time non-union employees’ to four days a week could save $1.5 million this year. Council Member Judy Zenge floated the idea back in March when the city was considering laying off a firefighter to save money.
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KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center charted two new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, according to an evening press release.
 Both individuals were symptomatic, according to the EOC statement. One case was determined to be a close contact to a known positive, and one case is under investigation as to the source. The contact investigations are ongoing.
 Of Ketchikan s cumulative 407 cases, eight were considered active in the community on Thursday.
The local test positivity rate was 1.17%, unchanged from Wednesday. Results were pending from 34 tests, down from 43 tests on Wednesday, according to the EOC. Tests conducted on or before Tuesday at the Berth 3 drive-up testing site had been processed by Thursday. Individuals who were tested during that time and had not been contacted by local health officials received a negative test result.
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