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Citizen Petitions – Initiative & Referendum Petitions under review; Recall Petitions due June 10

Initiative Petition Booklets 2021 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. Per CBJ Charter, Clerk staff has 10 calendar days in which to review all the signatures submitted and either certify a petition or deem it insufficient. In the event it is deemed insufficient, the petition committee may be issued supplemental petition books and have an additional 10 calendar days to collect supplemental signatures. Following submission of the supplemental petitions, Clerk staff will then have 10 additional days by which to certify or reject the petition. In other petition news, there are currently two petitions to recall School Board President Deedie Sorensen and Vice-President Emil Mackey circulating in the community and due to be submitted to the Clerk’s office by Monday, June 10. Those petitions will go through a similar review and timing process as outlined above. 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 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/ 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.

June 4th, 2024|

Telephone Hill Survey

CBJ wants your input on future development of the Telephone Hill neighborhood. Juneau residents are invited to take a quick online survey about development scenarios on Telephone Hill for a chance to win a $200 Fred Meyers gift card. The survey will be open through January 9.

More information

December 14th, 2023|

Budget Outlook

The City Manager is proposing the FY2021 and 2022 biennial budget during an Assembly Finance Committee Meeting April 1 st .

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the proposed budget may not fully take into consideration the potential impact of the virus on Juneau’s community and economy. Given the unprecedented level of uncertainty, this budget may be considered an “interim” or “draft” budget, with the intention to return to a formal budget process after the scope and scale of the spread of COVID-19 is more fully understood.

As it stands, the manager’s proposed citywide budget of $389 million, up $20.4 million from the FY20 Amended Budget, includes the following major components:

  • $87.3 million for the Juneau School District, a decrease of $1.3 million (1.5%) over the FY20 Amended Budget. This decrease reflects targeted cuts made by the School District in response
    to State funding levels.
  • $152.3 million for Enterprise Funds (hospital, airport, water utilities, docks, and harbors), an increase of $13.9 million (10%) over the FY20 Amended Budget. This change is due to an
    increase in Hospital and JIA expenditures.
  • $78.3 million for general government, a decrease of $2.2 million (2.7%) from the FY20 Amended Budget. This was driven by decreases of one-time funding requests recommended by the
    Manager and the Assembly, offset by increases in personnel services and insurance costs.
  • $50.6 million for initial capital improvement projects, an increase of $11.1 million (28.0%). Additional appropriations may be made throughout the year as funding gets committed.
  • $15.7 million for the bond debt service budget, a decrease of $1.0 million (6.1%) over the FY20 Amended Budget. This reflects a reduction in outstanding school construction debt, as multiple
    bonds were fully paid off during FY20.

In light of COVID-19, the budget reflects revised projections of consumer tax revenues and passenger fees due to the impact the virus will have on Juneau’s 2020 and 2021 cruise ship seasons. Additionally, the budget proposes a property tax increase of 1 mil, for a total mill levy rate of 11.66. The breakdown of the proposed mill levy is: 10.46 mills for the operating budget, an increase of 1.0 mills over FY20, and 1.2 mills for debt service, remaining flat over FY20. With this proposed change, CBJ is projecting to collect $57.6 million in property tax revenues in FY21 which would offset the depletion of unrestricted fund balance and restricted budget reserve in light of reduced revenues from consumer tax and passenger fees due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 27th, 2020|

Flume Trail Closure

The Flume Trail will be closed to recreational access between the months of April and September 2019 while repairs are underway by AEL&P. For more information about the closure, check out the link below.

October 3rd, 2019|
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