City council will go over new designs for floats at the Bobby Storrs Boat Harbor at their meeting tonight.

The city got a state grant in 2012 to redesign the harbor, but the money won’t kick in until designs are complete. PND Engineering has been heading up the redesign process. The council will vote on a new $515,000 contract with PND to finalize the C float design and start working on designs for the A and B floats.

The new contract would let the city move forward with the current C float design. That design entails a new steel pipe pontoon float and gangway, in place of the existing concrete float. The new float would not have finger floats, but would let boats moor on either side. PND estimates the project will cost about $3.5 million.

PND has already taken some public comment on the C float design. Under the new contract, they’d have to do the same on designs for the A and B floats.

Council will also vote tonight on who should be responsible for the city’s oil spill response equipment. The proposed agreement asks the local non-profit Alaska Chadux Corporation to maintain the equipment and be ready to deploy it in the event of a spill.

The city bought the equipment in 1999, but keeping it in working order is “beyond the Port Department’s means,” according to a memo to the council from Port Director Peggy McLaughlin.

Chadux would get to charge fees for deploying the equipment if the state or federal government ever needed it for a response here. But under the agreement, Chadux would foot the bill for possessing and maintaining the equipment. The city would still be the owner of the equipment.

Also up for a vote tonight is a plan to make Unalaska eligible for more state and federal disaster funding.

The hazard mitigation plan, or HMP, isn’t mandatory, but it would make the city eligible for more grants to plan for and recover from floods, earthquakes and other disasters. The 200-page HMP talks about how vulnerable the city is to various disasters, and covers its strategies for dealing with them.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave the plan preliminary approval last month. They’ll need to give final approval if city council votes to adopt the plan tonight.

Council will also vote on a budget amendment to increase wages for Title 3 employees. That same amendment would add $7,000 to the airport’s operating budget.

At city council’s Nov. 12 meeting, members of the Fil-Am Association asked councilors to consider making a donation to Filipino typhoon relief from their discretionary budget. Council will vote tonight on whether to make that donation.

The meeting is at 7 p.m. at City Hall.