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The Ketchikan City Council, in its regular meeting Thursday, passed a 1.5% raise in electric utility rates and a 5% raise in water utility rates.
The electric raise was approved by a 4-3 vote, with council members Riley Gass, Abby Bradberry and Sam Bergeron voting against the raise.
Council Member Janalaee Gage said that the raises were inevitable and council members would only be pushing it âdown the hillâ every year if it wasnât approved.
The 5% raise in water rates was passed 5-2, with Bergeron and Bradberry voting against the motion.
The council also unanimously approved a resolution to send a letter to the Alaska Congressional Delegation and Gov. Mike Dunleavy to ask them to urge the federal government to issue a temporary waiver to the federal Passenger Vessel Services Act, which could allow the Alaska cruise industry to resume operations in 2021.
Ketchikan City Council to consider water, electricity rate hikes Thursday
Posted by Eric Stone | Feb 17, 2021
Ketchikan’s city hall in 2020 (KRBD file photo by Maria Dudzak)
Ketchikan’s City Council is considering whether to hike city water and power rates. While officials say the increases will be necessary, some members of the council are wary of the timing.
City Manager Karl Amylon told the council earlier this month that the publicly-owned water utility has lost hundreds of thousands dollars each year for a decade.
“It’s basically because the council doesn’t want to raise rates to meet the cost of production of water,” Amylon said at the Feb. 4 council meeting.
Posted by Eric Stone | Jan 22, 2021
The Tongass National Forest near Wrangell, Alaska, 2016. (Creative Commons photo by Rob Bertholf)
An overwhelming majority on Ketchikan’s City Council wants to defend the Trump administration’s decision to exempt the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule.
A legal challenge by Southeast Alaska tribes and conservation groups seeks to overturn the rollback, which could ease road building and other development on some 9.4 million acres of federal forest land.
Ketchikan City Council member Riley Gass said the collapse of the cruise season in 2020 in the face of the pandemic shows that the region needs to tap its natural resources.
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