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City Reworks Overdue Spending Policy Despite Fire Scare Morgan/Olds Lead Iron Dog Racers out of Mcgrath and Into Nome NSHC Has N EXPANSION— NSHC officials hope to expand the campus of the new regional hospital by adding a housing complex and Wellness and Training Center. Photo by Diana Haecker C VOLUME CXIV NO. 8 February 20, 2014 NSHC has new concept for Wellness and Training Center New capital investments planned in Nome and region to shrink operational costs in the long run By Diana Haecker Gorn said in a recent interview with ovating the old hospital building for Wellness and Training Center ing rooms including mock laborato- The use of the old Norton Sound The Nome Nugget the idea to reno- only one intended use does not make The new Wellness and Training ries and mock exam rooms. hospital to house a substance abuse vate the old hospital and turn it into sense, Gorn said. However, to con- Center building would serve multi- The Anchorage architectural firm treatment center, dubbed Wellness a Wellness Center did not pan out be- struct a new building that would ple purposes. According to a prelim- Bettisworth North worked on a pre- Center, has been scrapped for good. cause of the high cost associated house three programs and lead to a inary floor plan diagram, it would liminary design. NSHC officials However, plans are afoot to con- with the remodeling. The cost decrease in operating costs over the house Behavioral Health Services have asked the State Legislature to struct a new building that would be amounted to an estimated $18 mil- long term does make sense. and the Wellness Center on the first include in the Fiscal Year 2015 capi- home to the Wellness Center and also lion. For that price tag, NSHC envi- As for the fate of the old hospital, floor, including a separate area for an tal budget a request for $1.2 million provide space for a Health Aide and sions to build a new building on which was advertised for sale, Gorn intake section and a detox area. The for planning and design of the Well- EMS Training Center and other of- property owned by NSHC across said that NSHC received an offer and second floor would be occupied by ness and Training Center. It also re- fices. Greg Kruschek Ave., which is closer the parties are now entering into the the Public Health Nursing clinic, NSHC CEO and President Angie to the new hospital. The cost of ren- second phase of negotiations. Health Aide Training and EMS train- continued on page 6 City reworks overdue spending policy By Sandra L. Medearis putting the burden back on public of- The City of Nome administration ficials and an alert public to deny fa- has been working to catch up on get- voritism to the Good Ol’ Boys and ting a procurement policy. Girls Club. A procurement policy is a set of Nome has had a policy on the rules for buying services and goods books, signed by Mayor Robert Ren- by transparent and competitive trans- shaw 40 years ago, but the policy es- actions to exercise fiduciary respon- sentially says “put it in writing” as sibility over public money. regards completion date, liability Unlike most cities of size in and price. Alaska, the City has been operating That current policy does not ad- without such a written policy. How- dress competition necessary to get ever, many projects funded by state the best price for spending the pub- and federal money demand compet- lic’s money. itive bidding and a Request for Pro- “The last policy was written in posals. 1973 and basically said, ‘if you want A new procurement law under something, go buy it.’” Not the best, consideration seems to head in the or most transparent method for fair right direction, but contains sections stewardship of the public’s money,” where it also seems its own teeth, al- Councilman Matt Culley said Mon- Photo by Diana Haecker lowing sole source procurement and day. FIRST INTO NOME— Iron Dog Team 10, Mike Morgan and Chris Olds were the first Iron Dog pro-class rac- limited competition procurement, ers into Nome on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 4:37 p.m. continued on page 4 Despite fire scare Morgan/Olds lead Iron Dog racers out of McGrath and into Nome By Diana Haecker and not idled down enough before Rohn, through the infamous Flames shot out of the exhaust of Morgan began fueling and the fire Farewell Burn to Nikolai, the 37 Mike Morgan’s Polaris Switchback started. teams in the pro-class of the 2014 snowmachine after arriving in Mc- But what looked bad ended well. Iron Dog snowmobile race were Grath on Sunday evening, as they The fire burned the gauntlets and bracing for tough trails. raced toward Nome from Big Lake the intake filter, but the parts were Nomeite Mike Morgan, now liv- in the Iron Dog Snowmobile Race. changed out and the Nome/Eagle ing in Anchorage, has teamed up Evan Booth described the scene River pair continued up the trail on again with Chris Olds, 42, of Eagle as a scary looking ball of fire. Monday at 11:07 a.m. after having River. “It looked real bad,” said Booth. taken their 14-hour layover at Mc- Morgan is racing his fifth Iron Morgan quickly put the gas cap Grath, a combination of a mandatory Dog, for the third year together with back on. His father Stan Morgan and six- and eight-hour layover. Chris Olds. Olds has finished 11 Iron trail support Evan Booth ran into the They were the first in and out of Dog races, winning the race in 2010 checkpoint to get a fire extinguisher, the checkpoint. and 2011. which was found and put to use. Up until McGrath, team Tyler Ak- Morgan and Olds are racing on The reason for the fire was that lestad and Tyson Johnson had a five- Polaris Switchback 600 sleds. the snowmachine was still too hot minute trail time lead on the Morgan and Olds were the third Nome/Eagle River team. team out of the start gate at Big Lake However, Aklestad and Johnson on Sunday, wearing bib # 10. On the Web: had to content with mechanicals and Morgan said in an interview with needed to do some welding in Mc- The Nome Nugget before the race he www.nomenugget.net Grath before they could leave the and Olds are prepared for the poor E-mail: checkpoint and chase Morgan and trail conditions. [email protected] Olds. “We have a good set up and will try to win this thing,” Morgan said. Rough trail conditions According to Morgan, the two Nome Iron Dog racer Mike Mor- racers have trained hard, put approx- gan and his partner Chris Olds of imately 3,000 trail miles on their ma- Eagle River knew it would be a chines this winter, including a run rough ride. LEAVING UNALAKLEET— Evan Booth, left, Mike Morgan, middle, With minimal snow cover and no continued on page 7 and Chris Olds, right, confered before Iron Dog team 10, Morgan and snow at all for 70 miles between Olds, left the Unalakleet checkpoint, on Tuesday at 11:37 a.m. 2 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014OPINION THE NOME NUGGET Juneau Juice Bill Introduced to Allow Firearms on University of Alaska Campuses Senate passes bill allowing municipalities local con- However, as Wight soon learned, the Municipality trol over use of cell phones in school zones could not pass the ordinance due to the state’s Uniform Senate Bill 176 allows law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amend- Traffic Laws, which require all traffic laws to be the same ment Rights Alaska State Senate passed Senate Bill 123, sponsored across the state. SB123 would allow Municipalities to Senator John Coghill (R-Fairbanks/North Pole) introduced Senate Bill 176, by Senator Kevin Meyer (R-Anchorage), which allows bring the decision about school zones to the local level. with the urging of Legislative Intern Hans Rodvik from the University of municipalities to adopt ordinances to ban talking on cell- “It’s a significant concern, not only in our schools, but Alaska Anchorage, to ensure that law-abiding Alaskans are able to exercise phones while driving in school zones or on school prop- across our community,” Anchorage School District Su- their individual, constitutional right to keep and bear arms at University of erty. Although SB123 allows municipalities to pass perintendent Alaska campuses. ordinances coverage cellphone use in school zones or on Ed Graff testified to the Senate Community and Re- Article 1, Section 19 of the Constitution of the State of Alaska guarantees school property, it does not require them to do so. gional Affairs Committee. “But with the school zones the individual right to keep and bear arms. The right shall not be infringed “This is not a state mandate. We needed to change the and the areas with hundreds of pedestrians, bicyclists, ve- or denied by the State or a political subdivision of the State. Current state law Alaska Uniform Traffic Laws Act (Sec. 28.01.010) at the hicles on a daily basis- you mix that with a distracted does not prohibit law abiding citizens from carrying concealed firearms on State level in order for municipalities to be able to have driver, you know, it’s just too great potential for an acci- UA Campuses. local control. Nothing becomes illegal by the passage of dent or injury to happen.” However, since 1995, University of Alaska administrative policy has pro- this bill. This simply gives the decision to residents of “We adamantly support this. I really want to see us be hibited the otherwise lawful concealed carry of a handgun on or in university municipalities and boroughs,” said Senator Meyer.
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