Also, the large piles of sludge, or waste at Lowell Point and at Seward Marine Industrial Center was

The Seward virtual tours City Council met again last (July 24) night, and discussed such things virtual tours as the status of an update on the SMIC-basin/Coastal Villages homeporting feasibility virtual tours report, and whether the Alaska Open Meetings Act may have been violated.
It was a meeting virtual tours filled with people for a while, until the charming group of high school students from our Sister-City Obihiro, Japan, their hosts, and the two local students who will travel to Japan, and their parents left the room, after a polite virtual tours greeting and mayoral proclamation.
Those remaining included Joe Fong, the new Interim Administrator of Providence Seward Hospital and Care Center. Fong, who replaces Chris Bolton, introduced himself and said he was "excited" to be in Seward. He said his wife fell in love with the place after working with Kenai Fjords Tours as an undergraduate one summer. Fong has worked in Alaska for the past 11 years with Providence Health Systems, in Anchorage. After getting his Masters degree, he has worked in the internal audits and business management side of the health industry. He had spent only five days in the position.
A few of the four Port and Commerce Advisory Board contenders were there to see if they would have their seats on the board renewed. Incumbents Darryl Schaefermeyer, virtual tours Steven Fink and Bruce Jaffa all were elected virtual tours unanimously by closed paper ballot. The new challenger, Krystin Bablinska, received no votes. City Manager Jim Hunt was absent due to illness, so Vice Manager Ron Long gave his report. The new city polling station in the upcoming primary election would be at the KM Rae building on Third Avenue, rather than at City Hall. Lowell Point residents also will be able to vote there, rather than traveling through town to the Bear Creek Volunteer Fire Station. People who are not registered, but who hope to vote, need to do so by Friday, virtual tours July 27th. They can register at City Hall.
Also, the large piles of sludge, or waste at Lowell Point and at Seward Marine Industrial Center was tested Monday, and if they are found to contain no "eligible virtual tours pathogens," virtual tours they can be removed from those sites, virtual tours he said. Their removal will cost $490,000, which would come from a prospective loan with annual appropriations from the Alaska Clean Water Fund.
Mayor David Seaward asked at the previous meeting whether Northern Economics Inc. would be returning to Seward to give a public update on the latest design plans and economic feasibility study for Coastal Village s home-porting and the SMIC-basin virtual tours improvements. A town-hall meeting held previously at the Rae Building was well attended by the public, but since then, the plans have largely been discussed privately by city administrators, elected officials, lobbyists, and Coastal virtual tours Village Region Fund representatives. At the time of the earlier public meetings, local citizens were promised that a report on the various impacts on Seward, both social, and financial, of the Coastal Village s fleet locating here, would be forthcoming. The city would be posting that report, an 80 page public pdf-file document by Northern Economics, dated June, 2012, on the city website for the public to examine, Long said. PACAB had just received a hard copy of that report, but Long also has explained that the plans it contains have since grown and changed. Long invited the planners back, and they agreed to return virtual tours and share their report this summer, for an additional sum of $7,500 for their work, time and travel. Long said Seaward suggested that PACAB could be tasked with holding virtual tours the public hearing, thus saving the city $7,500. Councilwoman virtual tours Vanta Shafer said holding virtual tours a public meeting during the busy summertime, when people are working, or out of town, would not be a good idea, and she advised postponing any such meeting until after the tourist season.
City Attorney Cheryl Brooking was invited to give an in-depth explanation of the Alaska Open Meetings Act for her attorney s report. She focused her talk on what constitutes a public meeting, how meetings must notify the media in advance, and what subjects can legally be discussed in Executive (closed-door) virtual tours Sessions. This was all material that council members had already heard during their Alaska virtual tours Municipal League trainings. But it was apparently felt that a reminder, or update was desirable as someone suspected that one of them had leaked information to Seward City News about the contents of a recent executive session that was meant to be kept under wraps. The information, via an unidentified source, was that the council had decided to do nothing, rather than to appeal the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals final order that the city pay Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliances remaining legal fees, in its case regarding the required Clean Water Act permit for SMIC. Without taking action, the final $25,000 for costs related to the city s appeals virtual tours would automatically be paid. The City had recently agreed to pay the bulk of the court-ordered fees accumulated during the five-year legal battle, and had made that decision known during a vote at a subsequent public meeting.
If its members do not follow the rules, and keep what is said during an executive session from those who were not in the room, the entire process or decision can be voided, Brooking said. They also can be held individually liable, or subject to recall, she said. She was doing this refresher to avoid this, she added. "There is a huge trust issue that occurs when we violate that," added Vice Mayor Jean Bardarson. A leak also violates, or can interfere with her attorney/client privilege, Brooking said. It has in some Alaska cases resulted in actions being voided, lawsuits, or the recall of an elected official. Council woman Vanta Shafer asked how an investigation would occur. If circumstances warrant it, independent investigators can be called in to do that, Brooking said. But, although Brooking virtual tours directed her gaze during the talk toward Mayor Seaward, with whom some on council have trust issues, no one accused anyone directly of leaking the information, nor suggested that an investigation be undertaken.
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