Plans to upgrade Unalaska’s docks -- and even create new moorage -- will dominate tonight’s city council meeting.

Ports director Peggy McLaughlin will present a plan for renovating the Bobby Storrs small boat harbor. In a memo to council, McLaughlin writes, “This is more than a replacement project.”

That’s because the design by PND Engineering completely reconfigures the harbor. The A and B floats would be rearranged to make better use of the space in the water basin, McLaughlin writes. And all three concrete floats would be swapped out for steel, like at the Carl E. Moses small boat harbor.

McLaughlin will ask council to break the project into phases, and start by renovating the C float. The Unalaska Marine Center also needs some significant repairs. Council will also hear about plans to overhaul that facility.

Those projects won’t be cheap, though. So the city will seek federal and state funding to help pay for them, and a few other capital improvements. At tonight’s meeting, council will consider two resolutions that outline Unalaska’s requests for the fiscal year 2015 -- $56.5 from the federal government and $66 million from the state of Alaska.

Council will hear about a private plan to increase moorage space in Unalaska. That comes from Bill Shaishnikoff and his company, Bering Shai Marine.

The planning department is recommending that the city enter into a 50-year lease with Bering Shai Marine for a tideland plot at the back of Captains Bay. That’s not as long as Shaishnkoff wants, but it’s still a lot longer than 30 years – the length of Shaishnikoff’s last draft lease, which council was supposed to vote on earlier this month.

It was pulled off the agenda so Shaishnikoff could have more time to negotiate the terms.

According to a memo to council from planning director Erin Reinders, Shaishnikoff’s already secured building permits, insurance, and a bond for his new lease, and is planning more than $8 million in improvements to the land.

Council will also consider a resolution urging the state to replace the Tustumena ferry. As written, the legislation asks Governor Sean Parnell to make a “capital deposit” of $100 million in the 2015 budget, and another one in 2016. That way, budget shortfalls wouldn’t delay construction of the new vessel.

Council will also debate whether to take legal action against BC Rentals, owned by Sonny Nguyen, over unpaid sales taxes.

The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in City Hall.