A Sitka Community Hospital Dedicated Fund is hereby created. The Sitka Community Hospital Dedicated Fund shall be maintained separate and apart from all other funds and accounts of the City and Borough. The Sitka Community Hospital Dedicated Fund shall only be used to pay for the debt service needs of the former Sitka Community Hospital and bond debt and capital expenditures associated with athletic and recreational facilities.
(Amended October 7, 2025 Election)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an amount of money equal to the City and Borough’s revenues from enacting an excise tax on cigarettes and tobacco products shall be deposited each year into the Sitka Community Hospital Dedicated Fund.
We, the duly elected members of the Sitka Charter Commission, having been empowered pursuant to Title 29, Chapter 85 of the statutes of the State of Alaska to prepare a Home Rule Charter, do, on this twelfth day of August, nineteen hundred and seventy one do hereby present the foregoing Charter for the City and Borough of Sitka for adoption by the voters of the Greater Sitka Borough.
(signed)
Ben F. Grussendorf, Chairman
E.M. Calhoun, Vice-Chair
Margaret Ballard
Justin Fager
Judson R. Lanier
John MacDonald
Harvey Marvin
Kenneth Marvin
James T. Poulson
Gordon Whitcomb
Virgil J. Wright