Petitioner Committees for the Ship-Free Saturday Initiative and the Repeal Ordinance 2023-24 Referendum petitions were issued petition books on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 and returned the petitions on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Each petition is required to have 2,359 signatures for the Municipal Clerk’s office to certify them. In the initial round of signature review, neither the Ship-Free Saturday Initiative nor the Repeal Elections Ord. 2023-24 received a sufficient number of signatures.   For the Ship-Free Saturday Initiative Petition, Supplemental Books were turned in with a total of 424 signatures on Thursday, June 20. Clerk staff is currently reviewing signatures and will have a final decision on the sufficiency of this petition no later than Monday, July 1, 2024 (290 supplemental signatures are needed to certify the petition.)    For the Repeal Elections Ord. 2023-24 Referendum Petition, supplemental books were turned in with a total of 963 signatures on Thursday, June 20. Clerk staff is currently reviewing these supplemental books and will have a final decision on the sufficiency of this petition no later than Monday, July 1, 2024 (1391 supplemental signatures are needed to certify the petition.)    In other petition news, the two petitions to recall School Board President Deedie Sorensen and Vice-President Emil Mackey, were deemed insufficient during the first round of signature reviews and the petitioner committee was issued supplemental petition books to collect additional signatures to be turned into the Clerk’s office by Monday, July 10, 2024. Those petitions will go through a similar review and timing process as outlined above. Numbers of signatures, approved and those still required for certification, for each of the recall petitions are listed below:

For Deedie Sorensen, 1988 signatures were approved during the initial review; 371 additional signatures are needed in the supplemental round

For Emil Mackey, 2012 signatures were approved during the initial review; 347 additional signatures are needed in the supplemental round

Decisions and complete details for each individual petition and the petition process in general can be found on the Municipal Clerk’s Elections webpage at https://juneau.org/clerk/elections . For voters who don’t know if they are a qualified Juneau registered voter or what address they are registered to vote at can check their voter registration status on the State of Alaska Division of Election’s website at https://myvoterinformation.alaska.gov/.  For individuals who are not registered to vote or who want to update their voter registration, the State Division of Elections has a webpage for that too. https://voterregistration.alaska.gov/ Questions related to local CBJ Elections and the petition or voter registration process are encouraged to contact the CBJ Municipal Clerk’s office at 907-586-5278 or via email at [email protected]v.

The following are the dates to file a Citizen’s Petition Affidavit in advance of the October 1, 2024 Regular Municipal Election.

Initiative Petition Filing Period March 26 – April 9

Referendum Petition Filing Period April 9 – April 24

Charter Amendment Petition Filing Period March 29-May 13

In response to citizen petitions filed with the Municipal Clerk’s office in April, some petitions were approved and have been issued books, one was denied and one was withdrawn. Decisions and complete details for each petition can be found on the Municipal Clerk’s Elections webpage at https://juneau.org/clerk/elections.

Petitioner Committees for the Ship Free Saturday Initiative and the Repeal Ordinance 2023-24 Referendum petitions were issued petition books on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 and have until Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 4:30pm to collect 2,359 signatures and turn them into the Municipal Clerk’s office for consideration.

For voters who are interested in signing petitions but don’t know if they are a qualified Juneau registered voter, they can check their voter registration status on the State of Alaska Division of Election’s website at https://myvoterinformation.alaska.gov/.  For individuals who are not registered to vote or who want to update their voter registration, the State Division of Elections has a webpage for that too. https://voterregistration.alaska.gov/

In addition to being able to register online, voters can register in person at a wide variety of locations in Juneau including the Municipal Clerk’s Office, any of the CBJ Public Librarys, or the State Division of Elections offices. Questions related to local CBJ Elections, the petition, or voter registration process are encouraged to contact the CBJ Municipal Clerk’s office at 907-586-5278 or via email at [email protected]v.