The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is set to meet for a regular meeting on Tuesday, with a load of items that are currently on the consent agenda. Public testimony will be taken on these items, but there will not necessarily be a separate discussion unless an Assembly Member requests it.
Among the items to be considered would authorize the lease of classroom space at the Soldotna Prep Building with the Boys & Girls Club of the Kenai Peninsula. The lease with Boys & Girls Club would utilize ten classrooms and gymnasiums for youth programs. The proposed lease would last through the current school year, then continue month-to-month by mutual agreement.
In addition, Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce has set forth the tourism and economic program objectives for Fiscal Year 2022. The objectives set to be presented as new business are: promoting the unique travel destinations to each of the 30 unincorporated communities on the peninsula, promote significant increases in tourism during the shoulder seasons, and track online impressions and conversions to sales in tourism markets.
The assembly will also look at a resolution that requests the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to declare a commercial fishery resource disaster. This is being proposed due to the failure of the Upper Cook Inlet commercial sockeye salmon fishery in 2020.
The assembly chambers will be open to in-person attendance at 6:00 p.m.. on Tuesday, but for those who wish to attend virtually, the Zoom online platform will be utilized. This offers an online participation presence, as well as the ability to use a telephone. Click here to log in, or call (888) 788-0099. Use Meeting ID: 938 6524 5999 in either instance.
