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Remembering Dawne Thomsen - Page 9 Heliport appeal request Tuesday - page 3 Remembering Dawne Thomsen - page 9 Named Alaska’s Best Weekly Newspaper, 2013 and 2014 Chilkat Valley News Volume XLV Number 47 Thursday, November 26, 2015 $1 Consultant Hill to serve commutes as manager? Culbeck paid Assembly to decide $75 an hour on one-month stint for flying to, By Karen Garcia After about 45 minutes behind closed doors, from Mexico the Haines Borough Assembly’s Personnel Committee voted 3-2 to recommend Mayor Jan By Karen Garcia Hill serve as acting manager through Dec. 31. The Haines Borough paid Manager David Sosa’s last day on the job is biomass consultant Darsie Dec. 4. Culbeck more than $3,600 in Committee members Diana Lapham and Mike October, including $75 per hour Case, as well as Sosa, voted in favor of offering for 16 hours traveling to and from the position to Hill. Lapham nominated Hill after his seasonal residence in Mexico coming out of executive session. According to for a “field trip” to Anchorage and code, Sosa is a voting member of the committee, Fairbanks. though several people were surprised to see Culbeck billed $1,200 in him raise his hand during the vote, especially October for time he spent traveling because he hadn’t cast a vote on the meeting’s and $1,800 for the three-day prior motions. “field trip,” according to borough Committee members Ron Jackson and Margaret financial records. The borough also Friedenauer voted in favor of offering the acting paid for his $882 plane ticket, hotel manager position to public facilities director Brad stays in Anchorage, Glennallen WOMEN’S HOOPS ROLLOUT -- About 15 women turned out for Sunday’s inaugural Ryan. Jackson had nominated Ryan. and Tok, $110 in taxi fares from game of a new women’s basketball league. From left, Sam Clay, Alisa Beske, Emily Files, However, according to code, the personnel his Sayulita residence to the Puerto Sarah Elliott, Sarah Bell, Lori Giddings and Tracy Wirak. Games are at 4:15 p.m. Sundays committee “shall be composed of three members Vallarta airport, and $250 for food. at Karl Ward Gym. Tom Morphet photo. of the assembly and the manager.” That means The borough also paid Culbeck the voting committee had one more member than $150 for time he spent negotiating allowed by code. his own consulting contract, and Hill didn’t respond to requests for comment approved 12.5 hours of work that Skiers rally against road rule on why she recently appointed four assembly exceeded the amount stipulated by By Karen Garcia work. He’d like to be able to ski in the winter, members to the committee instead of the code- his borough contract. Erik Stevens has lived in Haines for especially considering cutbacks to plowing. stipulated three. Culbeck made another trip five years, and every year he hears about “I’d like to be able to ski when the roads Sosa will discuss compensation, hours and from Mexico to Haines and back someone getting hassled by the police for aren’t safe to drive. I think there are a lot vacation time with Hill before the committee’s for a Nov. 10 Biomass Advisory skiing on the road. of other people who would appreciate that recommendation comes before the whole Committee meeting, though he “Every winter, a friend comes up to option,” he said. assembly Tuesday. hasn’t yet submitted a November me and says, ‘Oh, the stupidest thing just The section of code that prohibits skiing Sosa recommended hiring Hill to the committee, invoice to the borough. happened,’” Stevens said in an interview on townsite roadways also prohibits the use calling it “the most viable option for a short-term During the October “Biomass this week. “It’s the same story every time: of skateboards, roller skates, sleds and toy solution to the borough’s management concerns.” Decision Makers Field Trip,” ‘They made me take off my skis and walk vehicles. At the meeting, Sosa said there is precedent loosely organized by the Alaska down the hill.’” Haines resident Heather Lende was for the mayor serving as acting manager, as Mike Energy Authority and U.S. Fed up, Stevens decided to start collecting ticketed for skiing on Front Street near the Forest Service, a group of people signatures to petition the Haines Borough Harbor Bar about 20 years ago, she said. It See HILL page 9 interested in biomass rented a to remove the section of code prohibiting was nighttime and there was about a foot of couple of vans and drove from the use of skis on townsite roads, certain snow on the ground. Anchorage to Fairbanks over Oct. sidewalks and in Lookout Park. A patrol vehicle followed her and activated Park brings delay 5-7, stopping to tour biomass sites The current fine for a violation is $25, its flashing lights. When she found out why along the way, said AEA project with a $5 increase for each subsequent she had been pulled over, Lende was angry. manager Jim Vail. violation. “I was furious. I was like, ‘Oh, you’ve to telecom cable The group, including Culbeck, “The people of Haines should have got to be kidding me,’” Lende said. “I knew By Karen Garcia stopped in Kenny Lake to observe the right to ski around town as a mode that ordinance was on the books, but I just Alaska Power and Telephone’s plan to install a wood pellet boiler, in Gulkana of transportation without fear of being thought, ‘Seriously?’” a submarine cable for the purpose of boosting to see a cordwood boiler and in prosecuted,” Stevens said. “Besides giving The ticket was ultimately dropped after Internet service in the Upper Lynn Canal has hit Mentasta Lake to see a woodchip residents a safe and effective way to travel Lende disputed the ticket and threatened to a roadblock and will be delayed until this spring, boiler. The group also stopped at in winter, this will send an important call media outlets and report an Alaska town AP&T chief operating officer Michael Garrett schools in Delta and Tok to see message to winter visitors that Haines is had outlawed skiing on the roads. said this week. chip boilers, Vail said. a great place to ski, and winter tourism is “It just flies in the face of reason,” she said Garrett estimated the delay will cost about Culbeck billed the borough for welcome in our town,” he said. of the law. “We should be able to ski from $600,000. Stevens recently moved from Mud Bay The Department of Natural Resources informed See PAY page 12 Road to the townsite and has been biking to See SKI page 10 AP&T in September the proposed route for its 86-mile fiber optic cable runs through the Chilkat Islands State Marine Park. That means the cable, Tour season: Ships up, Canadians down initially expected to be laid in October, won’t be installed until DNR determines whether it can By Tom Morphet easily explained, and owners of increase could be attributed to skiers allow the cable to be installed in the park. Tourism-related businesses in Haines accommodations say they haven’t seen and increases in winter recreation. The cable would run from Juneau to Haines and report mixed returns in 2015, with tour a corresponding bump in their business. Others this week speculated the jump Skagway, providing faster Internet access. The operators benefitting from a jump in “The road traffic is a challenge to was at least partly attributable to Haines-Skagway line will run the same route as cruise passenger numbers but retailers speculate what is going on,” said tourism scant snowfall that prompted local an existing submarine cable that interties power and lodgings reporting flat or decreased director Leslie Ross. snowmachiners and skiers to seek grids between the two communities. sales from independent travelers. Ross’ figures show increases in road out higher elevations beyond the U.S. Chilkat Islands State Marine Park, a group of Curiously, according to figures traffic every month except March, with border. islands just south of Chilkat State Park covering compiled by the Haines Borough tourism April showing the biggest percentage Ross said there has also been a large about 6,560 acres, was created by the Alaska office, the number of southbound visitors jump, 46 percent, from 1,588 arrivals to increase in summer numbers, in part Legislature in 1983. According to law, marine and vehicles arriving at the U.S. border 2,326. Her numbers indicate that only due to a shore excursion by Alaska parks are intended to maintain natural, cultural station at Dalton Cache increased about 2,722 of 4,869 of the increased number Mountain Guides that takes busloads and scenic values, maintain fish and wildlife 20 percent for the months of January of travelers – or 55 percent – came during of cruise passengers over the border. resources, and promote recreation and tourism through September, compared to the the peak months of May, June, July and However, Ross’ figures also show a in the state. same months in 2014. August. Those numbers, though, aren’t Ross said she thinks that April’s large See SEASON page 4 See CABLE page 6 Page 2 Chilkat Valley News November 26, 2015 To list an event in Save the Date, phone 766- Editorial Save the Date 2688 or email [email protected]. It’s right that we set aside time each year to reflect on our blessings. Thursday, Nov. 26 Open Gym Basketball, 8:30 to 10 p.m. in As Alaskans parked in God’s country, we probably should offer the Haines High School gym.
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