For Michels, Former Nome Mayor and Kawerak Higher-Up, New Job at DOWL Brings Familiar Clients
![Denise Michels (center) at a Nome City Council Meeting in 2014. Photo: Matthew F. Smith, KNOM.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2014-10-13-untitled-001-2432px.jpg)
According to DOWL’s Geo-Construction Practice Area Leader, Kendall Gee, Michels will be tasked with managing high-profile, rural projects that require senior leadership. Before taking the position with DOWL, Michels worked with Kawerak for more than 15 years up until early November.
Nome City Council Approves FY ’18 Budgets, Lease Agreement, and Port Commission Candidate
![Mayor Beneville, sitting at a desk, signs resolutions while City Clerk Hammond, standing next to him, looks on.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Nome-Mayor-Richard-Beneville-and-City-Clerk-Bryant-Hammond-1200x800.jpg)
Besides approving all City of Nome budgets, the Council also voted in favor of authorizing a lease agreement with Alaska Marine Lines. For a period of five years, beginning September 1st, Alaska Marine Lines will pay the City $1,540.86 a week for two blocks of property at the Port of Nome.