Budget biggest worry at municipal conference

At last week’s meeting of the Wrangell Assembly, the city manager and mayor updated members on the outcome of Alaska Municipal League’s Combined Summer Meeting held earlier this month.

Held in Haines August 16 and 17, the annual conference combines the summer meetings of the Alaska Municipal Management Association, the Alaska Conference of Mayors, and AML’s Summer Legislative Conference. Speaking on it last Tuesday, Mayor David Jack recalled the main subject happened to be the state’s primary worry, its budget.

“The most important thing is that the Legislature for the last two years kind of ki...