The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will conduct a public hearing on the following ordinances at its regular meeting of  June 20,  2006:

O2005-19-53: Authorizing the Purchase of Hologic/Lorad M-IV Platinum Mammography System with Stereotactic Biopsy Attachment for Central Peninsula General Hospital at a Cost Not to Exceed $211,499 with Funding to Be Appropriated from the CPGH, Inc. Plant Replacement and Expansion Fund (Mayor) (Referred to Finance Committee)

O2005-19-54: Appropriating $2,500,000 for the Central Emergency Service Area to Pay the Costs of Planning, Designing, Constructing, Equipping, and Financing a Fire Station in Kasilof, Acquiring and Renovating the Fire Station in the Funny River Area, and Related Capital Improvements in the Central Emergency Service Area with Funding Provided by Issuance of $2,500,000 in Central Emergency Service Area General Obligation Bonds (Mayor) (Referred to Finance Committee)

O2006-24: Authorizing Negotiated Leases of Space at the Kenai River Center Building with the State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Through the General Services Administration (Mayor) (Referred to Finance Committee)

O2006-25: Authorizing the Conveyance of Lot 1, Block 8 and Lot 2, Block 7 Fairview Subdivision, Plat No. 56-2936, Homer Recording District to the City of Homer in Exchange of a 99-Year Lease of the South Peninsula Hospital (Mayor) (Referred to Lands Committee)

O2006-26: Amending KPB 5.12.105 to Require Late-Filed Senior Citizen and Disabled Veteran Property Tax Exemption Applications to be Filed by February 15 of Each Year (Germano) (Referred to Policies and Procedures Committee)

O2006-27: Changing the Name of Central Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area to Healthcare Service Area of the Central Peninsula, and Changing the Number of Members of the Board from Seven to Nine (Mayor at Request of Central Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area Board) (Referred to Policies and Procedures Committee)

O2006-28: Extending the July 1, 2006, Termination Date of Ordinance 2000-50 to Allow Continued Emergency Harvest of Spruce Bark Beetle Killed Timber (Mayor) (Referred to Lands Committee)

The public hearing will commence at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as business permits, in the Borough Assembly Chambers, 144 N Binkley Street, Soldotna, Alaska 99664.  All interested persons are invited to attend the meeting and participate in the public discussion.  Written comments may be sent to the Assembly, c/o Borough Clerk, 144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, AK 99669.