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.
“Naliġaaniktuŋa!”
![Voting stickers, Nome, 2014](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-10-07-nome-votes-and-nome-port-029-2432px-1200x800.jpg)
With Alaska’s primary in August, city elections throughout the state in October, and the general election in November, there have been ample occasions for our listeners to exercise their democratic rights this fall. A common sight in Nome and surrounding communities (especially on election days, of course) are the stickers above, proudly proclaiming “I Voted!” […]
To the polls
![Election day at Nome's polling place, Old St. Joe's. Photo: David Dodman, KNOM file.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2013-11-05-nome-voting-1-1216px-1200x900.jpg)
Like all across the country, voters in Western Alaska went to the polls on November 5th. In Nome, the items on the ballot were relatively few: a run-off contest for a city council seat and an advisory vote on whether to add fluoride to the municipal water supply. The vote, albeit in an “off” year, […]