Petersburg Pilot -

The Petersburg Borough Assembly passed Ordinance #2021-22 in its third and final reading Tuesday evening, increasing the FY22 budget.

Passing unanimously in its first two readings, the ordinance sets out to increase the budget for dredging the South Boat Harbor by $271,600. The ordinance also accepts an additional $553,081 in Fisheries business Tax Revenue and transfers $353,081 of that to the Harbor Fish Tax revenue fund.

The ordinance would also see the borough accept $1,222,750 from the state of Alaska for the COVID-19 testing contract extension and accept two ARPA grants awarded to the...