Marijuana Information and Resources
The following list contains readings and resources that individuals have suggested or developed. Please forward any suggested materials to Michele Turner: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Suggested Readings
Sourcebook for Municipal Regulations of Marijuana
The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado “The Impact”
JAPA Planning for Marijuana, The Cannabis Conundrum
Marijuana Control Board Proposed Regulations
Municipal Legislation
Municipal Legislation (spreadsheet and legislation)
Presentations
"The Legal Cannabis Industry - A Visual Journey" by Dollynda Phelps
Quarterly Report to the Assembly Period Ending August 31, 2015 Exhibit A Exhibit B Exhibit C
Healthcare Information and Resources
The following list contains readings and resources that individuals have suggested or developed. Please forward any suggested materials to Angela Ramponi at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Task Force Updates and Upcoming Events
- The task force has completed all meetings at this time
Health News Sources
Task Force Presentations and Materials
- 09/16/2015 - KPB Admin - Rural Health Care Leadership Conference
- 09/16/2015 - South Peninsula Hospital
- 09/16/2015 - Central Peninsula Hospital
- 09/16/2015 - Kenai Peninsula Community Health Centers
- 09/16/2015 - A Local Primary Care Perspective - Dr. Katy Sheridan
- 09/16/2015 - Dr. Jim Zirul
- 10/21/2015 - Reducing Health Care Costs Through Improved Health Status - Rep. Paul Seaton
- 10/21/2015 - South Peninsula Service Area Board
- 10/21/2015 - Central Peninsula Service Area Board
- 10/21/2015 - Kena Peninsula Borough Administration
- 11/18/2015 - Providence Seward Medical & Care Center
- Stroudwater Consulting Proposal
- 02/02/16 - Educational Presentation by Stroudwater Associates at Borough Assembly Meeting
- 02/02/16 and 02/03/16 - Educational Presentation by Stroudwater Associates "Transition Strategies for rural hospitals"
- 02/03/16 - Task Force Presentation by Stroudwater Associates
- 03/3016 - Stroudwater Consultant Report
- 10/27/2016 - Final Recommendations
- Health Policy Terms and Definitions
- Healthcare Bluebook - Information on the bluebook "fair price" of medical services in your area
- Choosing Wisely – Information on the necessity of medical tests, treatments, and procedure
- Community Health Improvement Guide
- County Health Rankings Action Center - Explore evidence-based tools for health improvement
Suggested Readings
Kenai Peninsula Health Statistics
- Snapshot - Borough Community Health Status Indicators
- Snapshot - Kenai Peninsula Borough Health Rankings Snapshot - Kenai Peninsula Borough Health Rankings
- Alaska Prevention Status Report - Report on Alaska's preventative measures
- Alaska Health Rankings
- Alaska Health Quality Benchmarks - AHRQ
- Central Kenai Peninsula 2012 Community Needs Assessment (CPGH)
- Southern Kenai Peninsula 2014 Community Needs Assessment (SPH)
- Seward 2012-2013 Community Needs Assessment
Healthcare Costs
- Dashboard: Key Indicators Influencing Alaska's Cost of Care
- ASHNHA Economic and Community Benefits of Hospitals
- Alaska's Health-Care Bill: $7.5 Billion and Climbing - UA Research Summary No. 10 August 2011
- Alaska's $5 Billion Health Care Bill - Who's Paying? - UA Research Summary No. 6 March 2006
- 2015 Health Care Providers Outlook United States - Deloitte
- Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership. Joshua D. Margolis, PhD. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2290657
Alternative Care Models
- Perspectives in Primary Care: The Foundational Urgent Importance of a Shared Primary Care Data Model. Green.
- Accountable Communities for Health: Moving from Providing Accountable Care to Creating Health. Tipirneni et al.
- Doctor Shortages in rural America have paramedics steppng up to the plate when needed
- Expanding the Primary Care Role of the First Responder
Information about Vitamin D
- Follow up information regarding Vitamin D and Kidney Stones
- Representative Seaton letter regarding Vitamin D and Kidney Stones
Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs)
Blue Zone Project
Equitable Assessment Methodology Task Force
Established April 15, 2008, by Resolution 2008-037
Meetings
Material Site Assembly Subcommittee
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly President Johnson formed a subcommittee of the Assembly in order to review and discuss proposed amendments to KPB 21.29, KPB 21.25 and KPB 21.50.055 regarding Material Site Permits, Applications, Conditions, and Procedures. Specific legislation to be considered - Ordinance 2021-41 and Ordinance 2021-41 (Elam, Derkevorkian) Substitute as well as proposed amendments.
The subcommittee is scheduled to meet on Assembly meeting days prior to regular committee meetings beginning on April 5, 2022.
Updated Subcommittee Schedule:
July 5, 2022 Laydown Tentative Schedule provided
August 2 Draft ordinance for introduction will be distributed and publicly available: Ordinance 2022-36 An Ordinance Amedning KPB Chpaater 21.25 and KPB Chapter 21.29 Regarding Conditiional Land Use Permits and Material Site Permits, Updating Notice, Applicability, Permit Types, Application Requirements, Standards and Permits Conditions (Johnson, Chesley) (Hearings on 09/06/22 & 09/20/22)
August 8 Planning Commission public hearing on Ordinance
August 9 Ordinance introduction at Borough Assembly’s regularly scheduled meeting. O2022-36 [Clerk's Note: Ordinance 2022-36 was introduced and set for public hearing on Sepember 6th and 20th]
August 22 Planning Commission introduction (informational only)
August 23 Material Site Assembly Subcommittee meeting (1.5 hours; Time to be determined) (Note: ordinance will appear on regular assembly agenda as pending legislation).
September 6 Material Site Assembly Subcommittee meeting (2 hours; Time to be determined); FIRST Public hearing on ordinance during regularly schedule Assembly meeting.
September 20 Material Site Assembly Subcommittee meeting (2 hours; Time to be determined)
October 11 Material Site Assembly Subcommittee meeting (2 hours; Time to be determined)
October 25 Material Site Assembly Subcommittee meeting (2 hours; Time to be determined) SECOND Public hearing on ordinance during regularly schedule Assembly meeting.
PUBLIC COMMENT
Public comments received:
J.A. Munter Consulting 01/06/2022 |
Hans Bilben 01/16/2022, 02/08/2022 |
Kenai Peninsula Aggregate & Contractors Assn. 01/18/2022, 01/20/2022, 02/01/2022, 08/09/2022 |
Ed Martin, Kee Construction 01/18/2022, 01/30/2022 |
Gina DeBardelaben, McLane Consulting 01/29/2022 |
Cap Schafer, Dibble Creek Rock 01/20/2022 |
David Johnson, Johnson Engineering 01/20/2022 |
Casy Madden 01/21/2022 |
Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Assn. 01/21/2022 |
Joe Ross 01/24/2022 |
Larry Smith 01/26/2022 |
Milli Martin 02/10/2022 |
Laura Sievert 02/28/2022 |
Robert Smith 03/31/2022 |
Katie Tongue 08/12/2022 |
Gina DeBardelaben, McLane Consulting 08/30/2022 |
Hans Bilben 08/31/2022 |
Cynthia Lee & Russell O'Hare 09/01/2022 |
Greg Turner 09/01/2022 |
Gary and Eileen Sheridan 09/05/2022 |
Hans Bilben 09/05/2022 |
Ed Martin, Kenai Peninsula Aggregate & Contractors Assn. 09/06/2022 |
Elena Staab 09/06/2022 |
Gary and Eileen Sheridan 09/06/2022 |
Laura Sievert 10/03/2022 |
Loren Rhyeer 10/11/2022 |
Greg and Linda Barclay 10/11/2022 |
Pat Gross 10/11/2022 |
Diane and Hugh Garske 10/11/2022 |
Toni Swearingen 10/14/2022 |
Shanna Roderick 10/17/2022 |
Deborah Anderson 10/21/2022 |
Curt Wilcox 10/22/2022 |
Upper Dietz Road Group 10/23/2022 |
Janet Simons 10/24/2022 |
David Weber 10/24/2022 |
Dan Anderson 10/24/2022 |
Suzanne Settle, Cook Inlet Region, Inc. 10/24/2022 |
Deborah Anderson 10/24/2022 |
Laura Sievert 10/24/2022 |
Kaitlin Vadla 10/24/2022 |
Joshua Ross 10/24/2022 |
Mark Tornai 10/24/2022 |
Dan DeRaeve 10/25/2022 |
Douglas Schade 10/25/2022 |
Steve & Karen Rutherford 10/25/2022 |
Natasha Schade 10/25/2022 |
Daniel Hawksworth 10/25/2022 |
Buck Allen Jones 10/25/2022 |
Kristine Shine 10/25/2022 |
Nancy Pease 10/25/2022 |
Edward & Denise Burgin 10/25/2022 |
Victoria Chase 10/26/2022 |
Larry Smith, D&L Construction 10/28/2022 |
Barbara N. Reilly 10/25/2022 |
Hans Bilben 11/09/2022 |
Gordon & Sonja Nisler 11/14/2022 |
Robert Archibald, Chair KBSP & KBSWP 11/10/2022 |
Hal Shepherd 12/13/2022 |
Roberta Highland, Kachemak Bay Conservation Society |
Kathryn Carssow 12/13/2022 |
Ron Rogalsky, Kenai River Special Management Area Board 12/13/2022 |
Laura Dewey 12/13/2022 |
Lynnda Kahn 12/13/2022 |
Millie Martin 12/13/2022 |
Homer Soil & Water Conservation District, Katherine Schake 12/13/2022 |
Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District Tiffany Brand 01/03/2023 |
Greg Turner |
Cynthia Lee & Russell O'Hare |
Eero Schultz |
Rick Smeriglio |
Edward & Kathleen Martin |
Edward & Kathleen Martin |
Ed Martin |
Mary Trimble |
Grace Merkes |
Kathemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, UAA |
Dolma Family |
Lynn Whitmore |
Vickey Hodni |
Kachemak Bay Conservation Society |
Submit a public comment to the Assembly Subcommittee HERE.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We conducted a comprehensive survey of residents to improve boroughwide services to the public. Thousands participated in the survey by answering our questions and providing valuable comments. Your documented comments and feedback are directly helping guide improvements to road service and the many other roles the borough plays on the Kenai. We will continue to ensure that KPB residents receive quality services that they pay for at the lowest cost possible.
We have placed ourselves in the shoes of the taxpayer. Under the Micciche administration, for the first time in a decade, a balanced boroughwide budget was passed by the assembly. We accomplished this while reducing your mill rate (property taxes). Prior to my administration, the previous two years saw a 16% increase in the KPB budget. The Micciche administration’s overall budget increased by only 2.55%. The general fund budget was also reduced from last year’s and, leading by example, my Mayor’s Department budget decreased as well.
Working with the Kenai Peninsula School District, we are helping to bolster and improve home-school options. Trying to see things through the eyes of home-school parents, students and families helps us be responsive to the 30% of our students who are home-schooled. It is imperative that we understand and meet their needs.
We are working to make KPB Emergency Services as efficient as possible to better serve the people of the Kenai. Our view and current national practices demonstrate that combined regional services are far more efficient, and effective, and are provided at a lower cost to taxpayers than many smaller service areas. We also procured and distributed life-saving extrication equipment for our emergency responders to help them meet the highway rescue challenges faced in rural areas of the borough.
We updated and implemented anti-harassment and anti-bullying policies to ensure the safety of KPB employees and protect taxpayers from legal and settlement costs. This includes a confidential reporting system, a mixed-gender review panel, and improved public official bonding requirements to protect the borough from financial liability.
We responded in record time to condemn and remove the collapsing Zipmart building in Sterling, which had become a serious hazard to children and youth in a location right next to the elementary school and the community center.
We created a limited-in-scope ordinance that will update and clarify borough code regarding KPB elections. These changes will ensure that our elections continue to be safe, secure, transparent and accurate. A few of the improvements this ordinance will make include giving more information to the public about when the canvass board meets, requiring the hand-counting of ballots in at least one randomly selected precinct even in the absence of any discrepancies, creating a clear process for write-in candidates, and adding additional and improved viewing areas for citizen election observers.
We are tackling long-standing issues within the borough in partnership with KPB constituents, local governments and state and federal agencies. These issues include K-Beach and Eastern Peninsula flooding, KPB housing shortages (particularly in the southern and eastern Kenai Peninsula), rural emergency services support, and communication service gaps. We are also mitigating the overregulation of our citizens through common-sense solutions in partnership with those we serve within the KPB.
We awarded 44 capital improvement and professional services design contracts, as well as servicing pass-through funding to the private sector and non-profit grant recipients for services ranging from senior citizen programs to community groups. Funded projects include the new Central Emergency Service station, the new Soldotna Elementary School, CPH and SPH hospital projects, Eastway Road drainage improvements, the replacement of siding on Homer Elementary School, and many others.
We made improvements to KPB Solid Waste Management to reduce the enormous cost increases in that department that have occurred in previous years. We have reopened reuse areas, such as the “Sterling Mall” and are evaluating how to further reduce storing marketable materials in perpetuity in our landfills. The team is also evaluating the most efficient methods to reduce and process regulated leachate to reduce costs to taxpayers.
In accordance with KPB code, senior center funding is redistributed every 10 years after the census is conducted and shows how many seniors currently live in each area of the borough. Many centers had their funding increased through the current formula in the FY24 budget, but several were dramatically reduced. Working with KPB staff, Mayor Micciche created a “hold harmless” solution to fully fund all centers and to ensure that none of our seniors will go without critical services. The “hold harmless” solution passed the assembly unanimously.
We have created open lines of communication so that all citizens can participate in our efforts to challenge how the KPB does business through common-sense solutions to long-standing, inefficient practices. Government is known for falling into ruts of inefficiency. By working with you, we are challenging each department to break out of long-standing ruts and take the fast road of maximum efficiency. In other words, we seek to provide quality services at the lowest cost to the taxpayer with an objective to keep the KPB affordable today, tomorrow, and for our kids and grandkids.