Office Of The Mayor

Greetings!

On behalf of the citizens of our community, welcome to the website of the City and Borough of Sitka. It is my hope that you find our online portal to local government both comprehensive and easy to use. Please feel free to contact us with ideas that might make our website better. I also encourage you to visit http://mayormcadams.blogspot.com for my personal interpretation and opinion regarding community issues.

Sitka is, by many measures, one of the greatest places on Earth. The beauty and diversity of our natural environment can only be rivaled by the same qualities innate in our people. Sitka is a commercial fishing community and a tourism town, a hub of healthcare and educational services, and a native village. Sitka was, in centuries past, the administrative capital of colonial Russian America, and continues to be the sustaining environment from which the Tlingit people have flourished for millennia.

Sitka is blessed with an island culture that breeds innovative people endowed with the vision and abilitiy to create opportunity for themselves and their neighbors. This spirit has rendered a business community that has endured and survived many changes over time, a community governed nonprofit sector that effectively provides many important services, a government services sector that strives to serve the public interest, an arts community that is robust, and a school system that is one of the highest performing in Alaska.

Ours is a good life. We are blessed with a disproportionate concentration of talented people who choose quality of life above seeming urban opportunity, and I am bullish on our future. Whether you are a citizen or a visitor, I challenge you to explore our unique assets and join us as you are able.

It is an honor and privilege to serve as your Mayor and I look forward to working with you to craft a shared future worthy of all our best values and visions.

Sincerely,

Scott McAdams, Mayor