City council moved forward with new rules for construction camps at their meeting last night, after debate about the role of the temporary housing in town.

The construction camp changes and other revisions to Title 8 have been in the works since January. This is the second time they’ve made it to council.

The new guidelines dictate where construction camps can go in town and how they should be set up. Camps would be able to go in certain industrial areas without special permission. And they’d be allowed as a conditional use in commercial zones.

Parts of Alaska are gearing up for hotly contested elections this fall -- but not the Aleutian Islands or Bristol Bay. Both of the region’s state legislators are running unopposed, after the deadline to file as a candidate passed on Monday.

Twenty-year state Sen. Lyman Hoffman will be the only candidate for his seat in August’s primary. He represents the Aleutians, Bristol Bay and parts of the Y-K delta.

City council will meet at noon today to vote on a $923,000 contract with Northern Alaska Contractors.

According to a resolution to approve the contract, Northern Alaska was the lowest of three responsive bidders to replace World War II-era storm drainage on Delta Way and update Unalaska’s sewer main -- raising manholes, and installing several hundred feet of wider iron pipe.

Designs for the new Bobby Storrs Small Boat Harbor are more than halfway done. But it wasn't too late for Unalaska’s city councilors to offer input on the harbor's new configuration this week.

Councilors have previously told PND Engineers that they want the designs to be geared toward Unalaska’s residential small boat fleet. After looking at the latest plans, some councilors asked if it would be possible to adjust the A and B floats to make more space for large commercial vessels.

Unalaska’s city council will hold an early meeting tonight -- possibly, one of its last.

The council will consider moving its regular meeting time to 6 p.m, as part of a lengthy agenda.

Unalaska's city council tackled a litany of financial issues at this week's meeting -- everything from property taxes, to the upcoming budget, to one councilor's international travel plans. 

Unalaska’s finances for the upcoming year will come into focus at tonight’s city council meeting.

The council is scheduled to adopt a five-year plan for capital projects, and they’ll take their first vote on the 2015 budget.

It includes more $31 million in spending, including a $25.3 million operating budget.

That's an increase of about 3 percent over the current operating budget.

Unalaska is getting $1 million from the state to install the fourth engine at the powerhouse.

The appropriation is part of the state’s new budget. It passed during the legislative session that ended in late April.

The $1 million is less than the city had originally requested. City manager Chris Hladick says they’d hoped to get $4.5 million to cover the entire cost of installing the new engine.

Former state representative Carl Moses died Wednesday, according to Unalaska city officials. He was 84.

Moses was the state's longest-serving member of the House. He represented the Aleutians region for a total of 11 terms -- first from 1965 to 1972 and then again from 1992 to 2007.

In that time, he was known as an advocate for fisheries and business in the Southwest. He lived for years in Unalaska and Sand Point. And he spearheaded the state's shared fishery resource landing tax, which brings millions of dollars into Aleutian communities and other coastal towns every year.