A special Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly committee will meet in Nikiski tonight on the proposed Law Enforcement Service Area.
Ogle: “On June 4, at 6 pm, there will be a public meeting at the Nikiski Recreation Center to receive testimony from the people in Nikiski about it.”
Assembly member Wayne Ogle introduced an ordinance that would ask Nikiski property owners if they would like to raise their borough mill rate in order to pay for some kind of law enforcement in Nikiski.
In September 2014 the problem with property crimes in Nikiski was revealed at a community meeting where hundreds of Nikiski residents said they had been victims of increasing thefts.
Ann Krogseng has been working ever since to find a solution.
Krogseng: “We need to look at where we’re at right now and the issues that are before us, that we don’t know how to deal with. We have drugs, it was clearly stated by Captain [Andy] Greenstreet that we don’t have a theft problem, we have a drug problem. And that’s not just our community, that’s Sterling, that’s Anchor Point.”
If the ordinance is passed by the assembly the question of raising the mill rate to no more than 1.5 mills would be put on the October ballot.
