How to participate during today’s lineup of Assembly meetings

The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly and its committees have several meetings today, March 7. With all meetings taking place in City Hall Assembly Chambers, the public can attend the meetings in person, or join remotely through Zoom or call in. The Special Assembly Meeting and Committee of the Whole Worksession will also be livestreamed on CBJ’s YouTube channel.

To provide public spoken comments, the public has a couple of options:

  • Testify in person by attending the meeting
  • Testify remotely via Zoom online or phone. To do this, you are required to call the Municipal Clerk’s Office at 907-586-5278 and give advanced notification by a certain time listed below.

Here is the schedule along with information for how to watch the meeting and/or provide public comment:

12:10 p.m. Assembly Public Works & Facilities Committee Meeting (agenda packet)

5 p.m. Assembly Lands, Housing and Economic Development Committee Meeting (agenda packet)

  • Join online https://juneau.zoom.us/j/94215342992
  • Call 1-253-215-8782 with ID: 942 1534 2992
  • To testify in person, attend the meeting
  • To testify remotely, call the Municipal Clerk’s Office at 907-586-5278 by 4 p.m. today

6 p.m. Special Assembly Joint Meeting with Juneau Board of Education and Airport Board (agenda packet)

Assembly Committee of the Whole Worksession immediately following adjournment of the Special Assembly Meeting (agenda packet)

March 7th, 2022|

Starting Feb. 28, Juneau Assembly meetings will be live-streamed on YouTube

Starting Monday, February 28, the City and Borough of Juneau will start live-streaming Assembly meetings on CBJ’s YouTube channel. Specifically, that means Regular Assembly Meetings, Special Assembly Meetings, and Assembly Committee of the Whole Work Sessions.

Assembly meetings are currently conducted in person in City Hall Assembly Chambers as well as via Zoom webinar. This hybrid practice will continue, so the public can still watch the meetings through Zoom either online or by phone; YouTube is an added option for watching the meetings. Find CBJ’s YouTube channel here and subscribe here (though subscribing is not required to watch the meetings).

Assembly meetings will no longer be available to watch on Facebook Live. CBJ is switching live-streaming platforms due to its transition to a new meeting agenda system that syncs with YouTube videos.

On Monday, February 28, the Juneau Assembly has a Regular Meeting at 7 p.m. in City Hall Assembly Chambers. Here are options for how the public can participate and/or watch the meeting:

For more information, contact the City Clerk’s Office at 907-586-5278 or [email protected].

February 24th, 2022|

Assembly makes appointments to Systemic Racism Review Committee

The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly appointed Ivan Nance and Gail Cheney to the Systemic Racism Review Committee. The appointments were made during a Special Assembly Meeting held Thursday, February 17, via Zoom.

Nance’s term begins immediately and ends June 30, 2023 and Cheney’s term begins immediately and ends June 30, 2024.

The Assembly would like to thank those individuals who are willing to serve and submitted applications for consideration. CBJ has a number of boards, commissions, and committees with vacant seats on a rotational basis. A current list of CBJ board vacancies along with application forms can be found here: juneau.org/clerk/boards-committees.

For additional information, contact the Municipal Clerk’s Office at 907-586-5278 or [email protected].

February 18th, 2022|

Juneau Assembly introduced ordinance to allow for subport cruise ship dock. Public can comment Feb. 28 & March 14.

The Juneau public will have two opportunities to provide public comment on an ordinance amending the Long Range Waterfront Plan to allow for the creation of a cruise ship dock facility at the subport in Downtown Juneau. The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly introduced the ordinance Monday night and the public can testify on the ordinance during the February 28 Regular Assembly Meeting and again during the March 14 Regular Assembly Meeting when the ordinance will be up for public hearing.

While this ordinance allows for a cruise ship dock, it does not guarantee that one will be permitted or will be allowed to be constructed. Rather, the ordinance allows for a dock proposal to go through a complete public process and is the first of several permitting decisions the Juneau Assembly and Planning Commission must make regarding Norwegian Cruise Lines’ proposed development at the subport.

How to read the ordinance

The introduced ordinance, which is seven pages, includes the actual amendment language to the Long Range Waterfront Plan on pages 1 – 4. The amended language would allow for the creation of a dock facility at the subport capable of accommodating one large cruise ship as well as docking facilities for U.S. Coast Guard and NOAA vessels.

The ordinance, on pages 5 – 7, adds an Appendix B to the Long Range Waterfront Plan. The appendix includes two things:

  • Page 5 lists the recommended criteria – established by CBJ’s Visitor Industry Task Force – for constructing a cruise ship dock at the subport.
  • The Long Range Waterfront Plan, as is, establishes a framework for amendment. Pages 6 – 7 of the ordinance describes how aspects of the framework have been met.

How to provide public comment

Details on providing public comment at the February 28 Regular Assembly Meeting are here; details for the March 14 Assembly meeting are forthcoming. In the meantime, the public can email their comments in advance of the meetings to [email protected].

Learn more about the ordinance

For more information, contact CBJ Tourism Manager Alexandra Pierce at [email protected] or 907-500-8677.

February 9th, 2022|

Items Coming Up for Public Hearing at the February 28 Regular Assembly Meeting

The City and Borough of Juneau Alaska Assembly will take public hearing on the following items at the February 28 Regular Assembly Meeting at 7:00p.m.

Assemblymembers will be meeting in person, to the extent possible. In-person public participation will be limited on a first come, first served basis in accordance with room capacity protocols. All attendees will be required to wear a mask regardless of vaccination status. Attendees in excess of the room capacity protocols may be requested to participate via Zoom webinar. Join online via Zoom webinar at: https://juneau.zoom.us/j/91515424903 or by calling: 1-253-215-8782 Webinar ID: 915 1542 4903.

  • Ordinance 2022-04 An Ordinance Amending the Parking Requirements of the Land Use Code.
  • Ordinance 2022-10 An Ordinance Amending the Land Use Code Regarding Marijuana Establishment Requirements.
  • Ordinance 2022-11 An Ordinance Amending the Street Vending Requirements of Title 62 Regarding Parking.
  • Ordinance 2022-13 An Ordinance Repealing the Confidentiality Provision for Real Estate Transaction Disclosures and Establishing a Penalty for Failure to Disclose a Real Estate Transaction.
  • Ordinance 2021-08(b)(am)(W) An Ordinance Transferring $720,000 from CIP B55-078 RRC Detox Additions, CIP B55-082 Hospital Deferred Maintenance, and CIP W75-061 Douglas Highway Water – David to I St. to CIP R72-141 Hospital Drive and Site Improvements.
  • Ordinance 2021-08(b)(am)(X) An Ordinance Appropriating $20,000,000 to the Manager for the Planning, Design, and Construction of Bond-Funded Capital Improvement Projects at Bartlett Regional Hospital, and Deappropriating $4,000,000 from the Manager for the Crisis Stabilization Capital Improvement Project; Funding Provided by Hospital Revenue Bond Proceeds.
  • Ordinance 2021-08(b)(am)(Y) An Ordinance Appropriating $25,000 to the Manager for a Grant to Sealaska Heritage Institute for the 2022 Celebration Event; Funding Provided by General Funds.
  • Ordinance 2021-08(b)(am)(Z) An Ordinance Appropriating up to $2,000,000 to the Manager for the Purchase of a Used Gondola for Eaglecrest Ski Area; Funding Provided by General Funds. [This ordinance was referred to the Assembly Committee of the Whole (COW) with the requirement that it remain in the COW until they hear from the Eaglecrest Board and Eaglecrest Summer Task Force. This is a placeholder in the event this ordinance is referred out of the Committee of the Whole and back to the Assembly for public hearing on February 28.]
  • Ordinance scheduled for Public Testimony February 28 with Public Hearing/Assembly action scheduled for March 14:
    Ordinance 2022-12 An Ordinance Amending the Comprehensive Plan Related to the Long Range Waterfront Plan.

 

The full agenda packet will be available at https://juneau.org/assembly/assembly-minutes-and-agendas on the business day prior to the meeting.

Anyone wishing to provide public comment during the meeting is asked to call the Municipal Clerk’s phone line at 586-5278 by 3:00p.m. on Monday, February 28, 2022 or send an email to [email protected] and provide their name, email address, and phone number they will be calling from.

Testimony time will be limited by the Mayor based on the number of participants. Members of the public are encouraged to send their comments in advance of the meeting to [email protected]. For up to the minute meeting calendar/details with links to the Zoom webinars, check our online CBJ Meeting Calendar at https://juneau.org/calendar.

ADA accommodations available upon request: Please contact the Clerk’s office 36 hours prior to any meeting so arrangements can be made for closed captioning or sign language interpreter services depending on the meeting format. The Clerk’s office telephone number is 586-5278, TDD 586-5351, e-mail: [email protected].

 

February 8th, 2022|
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