Kodiak Borough Consolidation would eliminate VPSO's in Kodiak Island Villages

Under Alaska State statues once a borough chooses home rule option.  The Alaska State Troopers are not longer mandatory for police protection.  The responsibility of the police protection is the boroughs responsibility.  Which means Kodiak taxpayers pick up 100 percent of the cost instead of some of the cost as it is now.  Village safety officers which are assigned to each village would be eliminated.  Kodiak Police would be responsible for police protection in each village or each village would have to pay for their own protection.  Larsen Bay, Karluk and Akhiok are unincorporated so the Kodiak Police would have send extra officers to live in these villages to give these villages law and order.  Old Harbor, Ouzinkie and Port Lions would have to either have an agreement with the Kodiak Police Department to cover their villages or pay for the police protection themselves or have the village council or the local native organization help pay for law enforcement for their villages.  Please say no to Kodiak Island Borough consolidation because it will cost Kodiak taxpayers more money to maintain the borough then not be home rule.