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Meetings Scheduled in Dillingham About Regulating Gravel Pits and a New Public Safety Building

A couple of meetings will be held in Dillingham this week focused on regulating gravel pits and building a new public safety building. A meeting will be held Wednesday evening to outline the work done so far on a new public safety building. The current public safety building has significant structural deficiencies as does the downtown fire hall. The city of Dillingham is currently in the planning phase for a new building that would house the Dillingham Police Department, the Fire Department and the local National Guard Armory. City Manager Rose Loerra updated the Dillingham City Council during their meeting earlier this month on the planning work being done by Agnew::Beck, which is serving as the cities consultant on the project. Loerra noted that the meeting will feature a review of the phase 1 summary report put together by Agnew::Beck.

“We’re going to go through the summary report and make sure you guys are o.k. with what they are recommending.”

Wednesday’s meeting will apparently include a review of some of the sites looked at for a new public safety building. Loerra labels Wednesday’s meeting as preliminary and says a much more extensive planning meeting will likely take place sometime late next month. In her written report, Loerra confirmed that the Alaska State Troopers are not interested in moving from their current location near the ADF&G building. The Troopers cite the fact that their current facility recently underwent a renovation. The meeting on the Planning for the Public Safety and Fire Department building will be held Wednesday beginning at 5:30 in the City Council chambers at City Hall. In other city news… the city’s code review committee will meet Thursday evening to review the work done to date about regulating material sites in Dillingham. That would include gravel pits. City Councilman Paul Liedberg is the Chair of the Code Review Committee.

“Agnew::Beck is working on the material site issue. It will end up being a city policy.”

The Dillingham City Council decided to look at how to regulate material sites in Dillingham after the development of a large gravel pit this past summer prompted concerns by several area residents. The code review committee meeting to review the work done to regulate material sites will be held Thursday evening at 5:30 in the City Council chambers.