Unalaska, AK – After a month-long break, city council will convene for a monster meeting tonight. Everything from the comprehensive plan, to major budget amendments, to taxicab regulations is on the agenda.

The meeting will open with annual reports from the planning commission, the library advisory committee, and the PCR advisory committee. Following these presentations, council will take comment on the comprehensive plan and an ordinance that would reduce the number of taxicab permits.

During the work session, city council will hear three more presentations and discuss the proposed adoption of the comprehensive plan. The presentations will cover the work of the convention and visitors bureau, the direction of the capital and major maintenance plan (CMMP), and potential amendments to the FY2011 budget. These amendments would increase the library budget with grant funding, bump up the planning department budget for surveying, grow the utility administration budget in response to the recent PCB settlement with the Department of Defense, increase budget revenues and expenses for the powerhouse project, fund a capital project for electrical upgrades to Bering Sea Fisheries, and increase the budget for 8-plex excavation -- among other things.

The consent agenda contains six different items related to city appointments or outside grants. Resolutions would reappoint Mayumi Conwell and James Dickson to the library advisory committee, and Matt Lightner to the PCR advisory committee. Also on the consent agenda are resolutions that would accept a $5 million legislative grant for powerhouse expansion, a $15,000 Rasmuson Foundation development grant for the city's library collection, and an Alaska State Library grant that would provide the library with broadband capability.

Council will then move to unfinished business, where they will give second readings to ordinances that would adopt the comprehensive plan and amend the city code to bring down the number of taxicab permits to 19.

Finally, in the new business portion of the meeting, council will reconsider the budget presentation delivered earlier and introduce an ordinance that would implement those proposed amendments. Council will also introduce a resolution that would authorize City Manager Chris Hladick to approve a change order related to the improvement of the employee housing 8-plex. Lastly, city council will discuss travel to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council meeting in Anchorage.

The meeting will convene in city hall council chambers at 7pm, and is expected to last three hours.