The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will meet tonight for a variety of topics as well as swearing in three of its newest members.
Assembly Member Dale Bagley…
Bagley: “I think all three of them will do a great job and I’m very excited for the three new people and definitely going to miss the three assembly members that are leaving us and it was definitely good working with them.”
Those three members are Blaine Gilman representing Kenai, Stan Welles representing Sterling, and Kelly Cooper representing Homer according to unofficial election results.
The assembly will discuss adding $60,000 to landfill monitoring after the Department of Environmental Conservation declared the current network “insufficient” at the Central Peninsula Landfill.
The monitoring system is used to ensure that landfill gasses don’t escape and impact nearby properties, but the DEC says the size of the landfill, and the possibility of future population increases, mean the site likely needs to double its monitoring system.
A new resolution on the agenda is by Assembly Member Mako Haggerty and wishes for Alaska to take action in regards to climate change and ocean acidification.
All that will happen at 6:00 pm this evening at the Soldotna Borough building in the Assembly chambers.
