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Dimok decision affirmed - page 5 DOT: Bay parking must improve - page 6 Celebrating 50 Years of Service to Haines and Klukwan, Alaska Chilkat Valley News Volume XLVI Number 28 Thursday, July 14, 2016 $1 Buzz-in CANNING AT LETNIKOF Borough worker entry at raises OK’d: $351K By Karen Garcia Some assembly members were borough The Haines Borough will spend concerned they didn’t have enough an additional $351,600 on its time to analyze how the increased employees over the course of the expenses would affect the budget. defeated next three years following the A proposed contract settlement assembly’s ratification of a new appeared in the borough’s packet By Karen Garcia labor contract Tuesday. Thursday, July 7, for ratifaction On a 4-2 vote, the Haines That’s on top of the $4.12 five days later. Borough Assembly on Tuesday million the borough is currently Though the borough and rejected Bill Seward’s proposal to spending on its employees’ union negotiating teams came install a buzz-in security door at wages, health insurance and to a tentative agreement on the the administration building. other miscellaneous expenses contract on June 16 and the union Assembly members Diana like retirement, according to chief membership ratified the contract Lapham and Mike Case voted fiscal officer Jila Stuart. June 28, the assembly didn’t against the motion, saying they receive the proposed contract until didn’t want to “micromanage” July 7. Seward. Assembly rejects Manager Bill Seward relayed a In a recorded interview with message from union representative the CVN last week, Seward vote on tour tax Tom Brice regarding the detailed plans to redesign the - page 6 consequences of the assembly administration’s entrance in an delaying ratification of the effort to increase security. Seward Manager gets heat contract. Brice told Seward that said he envisioned separate doors for misstep if the assembly delayed action for employees and visitors, with beyond 30 days after the June 16 visitors being greeted by a person - page 12 tentative agreement, the contract behind a tall counter in a small would automatically be ratified. waiting room before being buzzed On a 5-1 vote, the assembly Seward added he believed in. approved the three-year collective the borough got “a steal” on “There are people in that bargaining agreement between the the contract, considering how building who do not feel safe. borough and Local 71 workers’ underpaid Haines municipal They just don’t feel safe. So with union. Assembly member George employees are compared to that in mind, I have a duty to make Campbell was opposed. counterparts elsewhere in the state. sure that they feel safe,” Seward The contract will cost the “If you guys end up not ratifying said. borough an additional $97,200 this tonight, the message you are Seward said in addition to a in employee compensation for going to send to your employees June 29 confrontation between the current fiscal year, $117,200 is not going to resonate very well. a borough employee and two in the following fiscal year, and I can assure you that the effect on morale is going to be detrimental,” residents that resulted in the $137,200 in fiscal year 2019. residents being temporarily Haines Packing Co. co-owner Harry Rietze with some of his com- The assembly discussed the Seward said. banned from the administration pany’s new canned salmon this week. The half-pint jars of smoked contract for nearly 45 minutes, Assembly member Ron Jackson building, other employees have sockeye are the first canned product to be created at the historic Let- although the conversation didn’t said he found the situation was “a nikof property in about 40 years. See story, page 3. Tom Morphet involve objections to the contract’s See SECURITY page 12 photo. terms. See RAISE page 12 Lapham, Lende say they’ll run By Karen Garcia “I’ve had a lot of people ask me to run and I am Spiritual quest at core Though the candidate filing period doesn’t open seriously considering it,” Campbell said. “Do I feel until Aug. 1, Haines is abuzz with chatter about who like I can win or not? I’m not worried about it. At will vie for two borough assembly seats up for grabs this point, running is not about winning. Running of shamanic practice this fall. is about giving people the option to choose.” By Peter D’Auria The three-year seats are currently held by assembly Campbell’s tenure on the assembly has been Growing up in the tiny town members Diana Lapham and George Campbell. marked by strong opinions and positions that of Florissant, Colo., Krystal Lapham said this week she will run for another have delighted some and alienated others. On Gauley had a heightened sense term. The first three years have been “a huge learning the losing end of many 5-1 votes, he has riled his of the world. “(I) grew up very process,” Lapham said, and she wants to continue to fellow assembly members with dogged, sometimes clairvoyant,” she said. “(I) apply that knowledge for another three years. antagonistic conduct. At a meeting in May, could predict a lot of things, see “I enjoy it,” she said. “I want to give it another Campbell made five budget-related motions that a lot of things.” whirl.” died for lack of a second. When she was about 12, Campbell was more evasive when asked this week When asked if he was concerned his behavior Gauley had a vision of the about his intentions, though he said he is “most likely See RUNNING page 9 surrounding area on fire. “I saw going to run.” it all burning,” she said, “and I said, ‘This’ll happen in a few years.’” A few years later, the Ferry roster dings ‘Golden Circle’ Hayman fire swept through the In June 2015, AMHS ferries area, burning nearly 150,000 By Peter D’Auria decades. acres and killing one Florissant Cuts in Alaska Marine Highway “The Haines and the Klondike made 64 trips between Haines Krystal Gauley and Skagway. This June, that woman. System ferry service to and from highways – both of those roads are Years later, Gauley parlayed outrageous. They’re beautiful,” number dropped to 41, and of Skagway have driven RV and what she described as gifts of massage therapist at Klondike said Haines tourism director Leslie the 23 Skagway-to-Haines trips, car travelers away from Haines, clairvoyance and perception to Chiropractic, Gauley is a Ross. “(The ferry) allows people five were aboard the Fairweather, causing anxiety for local business become a practicing shaman. practicing shaman or, as she to drive all those roads and not which holds only 31 average-sized owners. Gauley, 32, has dusty blonde calls it, a shamanic practitioner. repeat them. You can just tie in a vehicles. AMHS ferries running between hair and light hazel eyes. Across She describes her role as multi-day adventure.” This summer, service either to Haines and Skagway are a crucial one forearm, she has a tattoo of a cross between psychiatrist, But Alaska’s budget crisis is or from Skagway occurs on only part of the “Golden Circle,” a 400- a totemic salmon; across the career counselor and priest. threatening the Golden Circle. one Wednesday a month, and three mile loop connecting Whitehorse, other, the words “Tears Are The Clients come to her with Y.T., Skagway, Haines, and Haines A $16 million cut to the marine Sundays over the entire summer – two of which came in June. Noble Language Of The Eyes.” Junction, Y.T. The loop is a highway’s $108 million budget In addition to working as a See SHAMAN page 4 popular tourist route that’s been has hit service between Haines and part of tourism marketing here for Skagway particularly hard. See FERRY page 10 Page 2 Chilkat Valley News July 14, 2016 To list an event in Save the Date, phone 766- Editorial Save the Date 2688 or email [email protected]. Instead of tying itself in knots on the question of selling a lot on Third and Main or making it a park, borough leaders could steer a middle Thursday, July 14 Wednesday, July 20 course and make the lot the borough’s designated site for summer food Government Affairs and Services Committee Summer Library Programs. Detective Time carts and trailers. Put the trailers on the lot’s downhill side and leave meeting, 6 p.m. in assembly chambers. at 2 p.m., Nature Walk at 3 p.m., and Ukulele Jam the rest of the lot for people to rest and recreate. Haines Borough School Board informational at 4 p.m. The borough could collect rents from the trailers and establish meeting on biomass project, 7 p.m. at the school Bathroom Safety for Seniors presentation, 1 guidelines for appearances, setbacks, etc. In the interest of trailers library. p.m. at the Senior Center. serving as a “small business incubator” and transforming them into Fort Night in July, 5 to 7 p.m. at the Wild Iris Thursday, July 21 brick-and-mortar buildings, the borough could limit the number of Garden. Ukulele Jam at 6 p.m. Art and Hammer Fundraiser, 7 to 9 p.m. at years on a food trailer permit. Friday, July 15 the Hammer Museum. Such an arrangement would provide food carts a neutral place Summer Library Programs. Story Time and Screening of “Hunting in Wartime,” 7 p.m. to operate, with room for customers, and increase their attraction Crafts at 11 a.m., Fairytale Theater at 2 p.m., at the library.