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How to Run for Local Office Workshop – June 15, 2019

If you think you might run for office – or might work for someone who is – our annual FREE Workshop on How to Run for Local Office will provide you with everything you need to know about running for an Assembly or School Board seat. The 2019 Workshop is scheduled to be held in City Hall from 9am to 1:30pm on Saturday, June 15, 2019.

There is no registration requirement for this Workshop, so please make a note on your calendar and share the information with your friends. Also, see the League of Women Voters’ Facebook Event for the Workshop.

At the Workshop potential candidates, their campaign helpers, or others who are only thinking about running in the future, learn all about what the jobs entail, deciding and preparing to run, how to get elected, and what happens if/when you win. Each attendee is given a full printed ToolKit of information, including election requirements, the forms that have to be filed as well as many other resources for planning to make a run for the Assembly or School Board. The 2018 Toolkit is available on our CBJ Elections website at https://juneau.org/clerk/elections

May 10th, 2019|

Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Municipal Clerk’s Week

The Clerk’s Office will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Municipal Clerk’s Week May 5-11, 2019.  Read all about it in the Mayoral Proclamation honoring Public Service Recognition Week that was delivered at the April 22 Assembly Meeting.

Many folks ask what it is the Clerk’s office does. Here’s a sample of just some of the tasks we carry out:

  • Provide staff support to the Assembly and its subcommittees,
  • Manage public records requests and serves as the custodian of historical and permanent records,
  • Serve as the Elections Official and conduct the annual Municipal Elections,
  • Manage the CBJ Meeting Calendar and serve as the CBJ information hub/public notice center,
  • Administer CBJ’s 30+ boards, commissions, committees and task forces consisting of approximately 230 community volunteers,
  • Administer appeals before the Assembly and its various appeal boards,
  • Coordinate local government review of liquor licenses and marijuana licenses,
  • Provide Notary Public services to staff and the public…
  • …and much, much more!

What is a City Clerk?

The eminent political scientist, Professor William Bennett Munro, writing in one of the first textbooks on municipal administration (1934) stated:

“No other office in municipal service has so many contacts. It serves the mayor, the city council, the city manager (when there is one), and all administrative departments without exception. All of them call upon it, almost daily, for some service or information. Its work is not spectacular, but it demands versatility, alertness, accuracy, and no end of patience. The public does not realize how many loose ends of city administration this office pulls together.”

These words, written over 50 years ago, are even more appropriate today.

We are located in City Hall Room 202 and welcome visitors! Stop by to say hello!!!

2019 -Municipal Clerk Week 50th Anniversary Poster

April 30th, 2019|

Special Assembly Meeting – Public Hearing on FY20 Budget & CIP Resolution

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the following items are scheduled for a public hearing by the City and Borough of Juneau Alaska Assembly, on the date designated below.  This hearing will be held in the Assembly Chambers of the Municipal Building.  Copies of the items listed below may be obtained at the City and Borough of Juneau Clerk’s Office, Room 202 of the Municipal Building or at the CBJ website at:  https://juneau.org/budget

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 5:30 p.m. Special Assembly Meeting, Assembly Chambers

 Ordinance 2019-05

An Ordinance Establishing the Rate of Levy for Property Taxes for Calendar Year 2019 Based Upon the Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2020.

Ordinance 2019-06

An Ordinance Appropriating Funds from the Treasury for FY20 City and Borough Operations.

Ordinance 2019-07

An Ordinance Appropriating Funds from the Treasury for FY20 School District Operations.

Summary of City and Borough of Juneau’s

Proposed FY20 Operating Budget

(Including the Juneau Douglas School District)

Ord 2019-06 & 2019-07
Estimated Revenues
State Sources

 $       64,809,700
Federal Sources

            9,285,600
  Local Taxes

        106,312,000
Local User Fees & Other

        169,673,300
Fund Balance Usage

            6,188,800

Total Estimated Revenues and Fund Balance Usage

 $     356,269,400

Estimated Expenditures
General Government

 $       73,477,800
General Government – School District

          87,471,500
  Enterprise Funds

        138,014,900
Internal & Debt Service

          20,294,800
Capital Projects

          36,836,100
Special Assessments

               174,300

Total Estimated Expenditures

 $     356,269,400

 

Resolution 2845

A Resolution Adopting the City and Borough Capital Improvement Program for Fiscal Years 2020 through 2025, and Establishing the Capital Improvement Project Priorities for Fiscal Year 2020. (This notice is provided in accordance with CBJ Charter Section 9.6. Hearing on budget and capital improvements program.)

 Preliminary Capital Improvements Program – Fiscal Years 2020 – 2025 Plan
Summary of City and Borough of Juneau Proposed FY20 Capital Projects
Summarized by Committee/Department Recommendations
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
Total FY20 Proposed Budget

Administration

        $750,000
Docks & Harbors

$4,971,100
Eaglecrest Ski Area

$230,000
Engineering

$400,000
Lands

$500,000
Parks & Recreation

$3,870,000
Capital Transit

$300,000
Streets

$8,900,000
Wastewater Utility

$5,825,000
Water Utility

$5,050,000
School District

$1,000,000
Hospital

$4,000,000
Total CIP’s

$35,796,100
April 8th, 2019|

Planned resignation means opening of District 1 Assembly seat

Entire Assembly

Assemblymember Jesse Kiehl was recently elected to the State Senate Seat for District Q and will be taking office in January 2019. In anticipation of his resignation from the District 1 City and Borough of Juneau Assembly seat, the Assembly will be accepting Letters of Interest and Declaration of Candidacy forms beginning November 30, 2018 through close of business on January 2, 2019. While it is unusual to announce the anticipated resignation of an Assembly member, the goal is to advise the public in a manner that allows ample time for citizens to consider serving on the Assembly.

Residents eligible for the District 1 seat must live in Downtown Juneau, Douglas, North Douglas, Lemon Creek or the Airport area.  If you have questions about which Assembly District you reside in, please contact the Clerk’s Office to confirm your eligibility!

Per the CBJ Code 11.10.040(a), the appointed candidate will serve “until the next regularly scheduled election” in October of 2019, at which time the District 1 seat will be placed on the municipal ballot for the remaining year of the term.

The Declaration of Candidacy forms are available by clicking here or in hardcopy at the Municipal Clerk’s office. In addition to the requirement to file a Declaration of Candidacy form and Letter of Interest, the person appointed to the District 1 Assembly seat will be required to file an Alaska Public Offices Commission Public Official Financial Disclosure Statement within 30 days of taking office.

For more information, contact:
Municipal Clerk/Election Official Beth McEwen at 586-5278 or [email protected].

November 30th, 2018|

October 2, 2018 CBJ Municipal Election Now Certified

It is with great pleasure that we announce the official certification of the October 2, 2018 Regular Municipal Election. The results of the election can be found under the October 2, 2018 links on the on the Clerk’s Election webpage at https://juneau.org/clerk/elections

The Municipal Clerk’s Office would like to extend its thanks and appreciation to all the candidates who were willing to run for office and extend special thanks to all the hard working election volunteers and staff who made this election possible!

The newly elected Board of Education (School Board) members will be sworn into office at a meeting to be held this evening at 6:00 p.m. in the Thunder Mountain Library. Newly elected Assemblymembers will be attending an Assembly Onboarding Training event at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 13 in the Assembly Chambers and they will be sworn into office at the Monday, October 15 Assembly meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Chambers.

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For more information contact the City Clerk’s office at 586-5278 or [email protected]

October 10th, 2018|
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