City may invest additional $715K in haulout ahead of opening

City may invest additional $715K in haulout ahead of opening

Photo KCAW/Woolsey Sitka’s new boatyard is getting another wave of funding. Tuesday night (6-10-25) the Sitka Assembly approved a $715,000 appropriation that is expected to wrap up the first phase of construction for the city-owned haulout. In 2022, 80 percent of Sitka voters approved an initiative to build a marine haulout using over $8 million dollars from the sale of the Sitka Community Hospital building. While that was several million shy of…