City council will take another look at new rules for construction camps when they meet tonight.

For months, the city has been considering a set of changes to the zoning code, or Title 8. The proposed revisions include new regulations for how and where to build construction camps in town.

At council's last meeting, councilor Dennis Robinson said he was concerned the changes would make it too easy for camps to become long-term installations. He said he’d rather see the city focus on encouraging permanent housing.

As the zoning changes stand, camps would be allowed in industrial zones without special permission from the planning board. In commercial areas, camps would be a conditional use, meaning they would require permission.

Tonight, council will consider two possible solutions to Robinson’s concerns: make camps a conditional use across the board -- or pass the proposed changes as-is, and work on other ways to boost permanent housing in Unalaska.

Tonight, council will also vote on a budget amendment that would pay to put Alyeska Seafoods on the city’s electrical grid. The project would cost about $340,000.

This year’s budget already includes a $1.4 million dollar loan from the general fund to the electric proprietary fund. Public utilities director Dan Winters says the perennial loan covers other projects, like the installation of the fourth engine at the powerhouse. Tonight’s amendment would add the cost of the Alyeska project on to that loan.

Winters says the city would sell three million more kilowatts a year by adding Alyeska to the grid -- and he says that would keep electric rates down for everyone, at least for another couple of years. He says they want to have the tie-in project done by next summer, and plan to do another electric rates study in 2016.

Council will also vote on funding a study of how to update tariffs and fees at the city dock. Ports Director Peggy McLaughlin says in her memo to council that it’s part of the 10-year development plan for the Port of Dutch Harbor. She says the current fees don’t reflect the city dock's services, or the vessels that use them.

The study would be done by Northern Economics, the same group that helped create a fee schedule for the Carl E. Moses Boat Harbor.

Council meets tonight at their new, permanent time – 6 p.m., at City Hall.