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Now is your chance to contribute to your community

...diving in to public service, but not quite ready for a run for the school board or assembly, there are numerous borough service area boards in need of candidates. Service area boards provide valuable input to the assembly and borough administration...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/opinion/2012-07-29/now-is-your-chance-to-contribute-
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Candidates share answers to wide-ranging questions

...technology to improve our operating efficiency and protect our environment, while reducing our cost to provide necessary Borough services. Gary Superman: The Legislative Priorities document written by the Assembly has been a successful achievement the...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/opinion/2011-09-26/candidates-share-answers-to-wide-
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Assembly mulls changes to service area boards

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday discussed major changes to how members of the various borough service area boards would be placed in their positions. At its regular meeting, assembly members mulled Ordinance 2012-07, which would...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-04-05/assembly-mulls-changes-to-service-ar
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Mayor seeks changes in borough, service area board relationship

Mayor John Williams has asked the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly to relieve him of an authority he says he doesn't need.

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/073007/news_3254.shtml
Filing deadline looms for election hopefuls

...incumbent from Kasilof, were facing no challengers as of Friday afternoon. A host of seats are open on the various borough service area boards, but nowhere had a direct competition developed by Friday. Of interest, perhaps, is Victoria Pate's...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/081405/news_0814new004001.shtml
Want new faces in politics? Then let's see yours

...reelection, while the other open seat is the most hotly contested of any race this election with five candidates. Borough service area board races are the saddest at all. Twenty-one candidates filed to run for 34 open seats, with only one race...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/081907/oped_3489.shtml
Borough assembly prioritizes its wish list

...primary residence. The borough wants that exemption increased to $50,000. Among the projects listed for various borough service areas are a $170,000 ambulance for the village of Nikolaevsk requested by the Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Service...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/121502/new_1215020006.shtml
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Mayor proposes changing tax rates; capping seniors? exemption

...retiring seniors have moved to the borough and built very expensive homes on which they pay no taxes, while using borough services. The real property exempted from all taxes has grown from about $180.8 million in 1999 to a whopping $429...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/022007/news_0220new001.shtml
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State to assist LNG workers: Plant closure will have impact on borough, service area finances

The State of Alaska announced Thursday that it will help with job training and placement efforts for Kenai Peninsula residents who are losing their jobs as a result of ConocoPhillip's decision to close the Liquified Natural Gas plant in Nikiski.

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/021111/new_784235012.shtml
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KPTMC funding is money well spent

...needs to cut spending, it needs to raise revenue. Since Kenai Peninsula visitors reap the benefit of KPTMC and Borough services, we feel that it is 100 percent reasonable that they would pay a direct tax to support these services that they...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/052211/ope_833213997.shtml
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