School district draft budget includes many cuts
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Petersburg Borough Assembly to hear appeals of 2024 property tax assessment
Petersburg’s Borough Assembly has a long agenda ahead of its meeting at 6:00 p.m. tonight. At the start of the meeting, the Assembly, acting as the Board of Equalization, will hear any unsettled appeals of the 2024 property tax assessment.
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Trust Land Office may halt South Mitkof subdivision sale
New for-sale signs appeared on nine lots along Petersburg’s Mitkof Highway sometime in the last week. The lots are owned by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.
It’s a surprise to the Petersburg Borough – the signs directly contradict what the Trust Land Office recently told Borough officials.
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Petersburg Borough Assembly to take testimony on a second application to buy Borough-owned tidelands
Petersburg’s Borough Assembly has a long agenda ahead of its noon meeting today. They’re scheduled to take public testimony on an application to buy a plot of vacant tidelands owned by the Borough. But that sale can only move forward if certain conditions are met.
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Petersburg Borough can now sell its land at below appraised value if it will benefit the public
The Petersburg Borough can now sell its land to private citizens and developers at below appraised value. The Petersburg Borough Assembly approved the change last week. Assembly Member Thomas Fine-Walsh submitted the ordinance. He told assembly members it’s meant to address the shortage of reasonably priced housing within the Borough.
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Petersburg Borough Assembly gets feedback on Frederick Point East firearm discharge prohibition
“You’re excluding miles of prime hunting real estate from subsistence users,” said local subsistence hunter Ralph Strickland. “And I don’t know if you check the price at the grocery store — meat costs a lot. I think it’s a lot of land lost to subsistence use that isn’t anywhere near anybody’s homes.”
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Land sale cap raised for the first time since 1990
The Petersburg Borough can now sell land assessed at up to $1,500,000 without a public vote. The change comes after the proposal passed unanimously at the Borough Assembly meeting on March 18. The land sale cap had been set at $500,000 since 1990. With inflation, that amount is worth more than $1,200,000 today.
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Petersburg Borough Assembly to hold final public hearings on land disposal ordinances
Petersburg residents tonight can weigh in on proposed changes to local law dictating how the Borough can sell its land and where people can discharge their firearms. That’s part of a lengthy agenda for the Petersburg Borough Assembly meeting, which includes four public hearings.
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