Phillip A. Zavadil

This budget document for the City of Saint Paul outlines the financial allocations for Calendar Year 2026. It details anticipated revenues and expenditures across various funds, including General, Bulk Fuel, Electric Utility, Water Utility, Sewer Utility, Refuse Utility, and Harbor. Key financial priorities involve funding personnel, covering operating expenses, making capital asset investments, and managing debt payments to support ongoing municipal services and infrastructure projects.

The 2017-2022 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for St. Paul Island focuses on building a strong, fishing-based economy within a healthy and resilient Aleut community. Key goals include supporting, protecting, and creating new fisheries opportunities; developing St. Paul Island into a leading climate change and coastal resilience research center; growing St. Paul Island into a culturally and ecologically unique tourism destination; and strengthening infrastructure and services to create a healthy foundation for residents and businesses. Priority strategies involve completing a vessel repair and supply store, exploring fishery expansion and diversification, developing a salmon and Pribilof blue king crab hatchery, conducting research on the reindeer population, expanding research and monitoring capabilities, growing tourism and recreation activities, achieving educational excellence, developing a skilled workforce, increasing access to renewable energy, and supporting capital improvement projects.

The City of Saint Paul Island Strategic Plan (2021-2023) focuses on three key goals: improving staff capacity and community safety, enhancing infrastructure, and diversifying revenue streams. Specific objectives include developing employee transition plans, promoting employment opportunities, implementing community surveys, improving communication, developing a community policing plan, securing additional emergency responders, enhancing emergency preparedness, improving city processes and technology, developing a comprehensive maintenance plan for city facilities, expanding the fish tax structure, conducting a rate assessment for utilities, identifying cost-saving upgrades, and supporting long-term economic development opportunities. The plan aims to improve resident satisfaction, reduce employee turnover, increase collaboration, secure funding for infrastructure projects, and enhance the overall quality of life on Saint Paul Island.