City of Ketchikan Mayor Bob Sivertsen was absent, with Vice Mayor Dave Kiffer presiding.
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. The borough, according to information from Borough Planning Director Richard Harney, has approved $80,000 to support the project.
Harney explained the aim of the project during Thursday s meeting.
âIn order for us to be sustainable moving into the future, to try to get our community to be more resilient, we talked about this tourism strategy a few years ago, before the pandemic hit,â he said.
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