Tonight’s Special Assembly Meeting is virtual; public can listen in & provide comment

Tonight’s Special Assembly Meeting at 6 p.m. will be conducted completely online. The public can listen to the audio of the meeting in a few different ways:

Members of the public wishing to provide public comment during the meeting on non-agenda and agenda items must do two things:

  1. Call the Municipal Clerk’s office at 586-0216 or send an email to [email protected] by 3 p.m. today and provide your full name, email address, the phone number you will be calling from, and the agenda topic(s) on which you wish to testify; AND
  2. At the start of the meeting, call 1-346-248-7799 and enter Webinar ID: 953 4131 8984. Testimony time will be limited by the Mayor based on the number of callers dialing in to participate.

Members of the public are encouraged to send their comments in advance of the meeting to [email protected].

Agenda items for tonight’s Special Meeting include:

  • COVID-19 Update and Actions
  • Ordinance 2020-15: An Ordinance Amending the Continuity of Government Code to Improve City and Borough of Juneau Procedures for Emergencies.
  • Ordinance 2020-16: An Ordinance Amending the Civil Defense Code to Improve City and Borough of Juneau Procedures for Emergencies.
  • Emergency Resolution 2889: An Emergency Appropriation Resolution Appropriating $200,000 to the Manager for an Emergency Rental Assistance Program; Funding Provided by the Affordable Housing Fund.
  • Res 2890: A Resolution Urging the Use of Cloth Face Coverings and Reminding People to Continue Protecting Public Health.
  • Sales Tax Filing Deadline Extension

Read the full agenda packet here.

April 20th, 2020|

As Assembly wrestles with $34.5 million deficit, manager introduces budget tool & recommends delaying pool renovation

The City and Borough of Juneau is looking at a revenue shortfall of $34.5 million over the next 30 months, due to factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of this projected loss, City Manager Rorie Watt is introducing a budget tool at tonight’s Assembly Finance Committee meeting to help the Assembly balance the budget. The meeting starts at 5 p.m.

“Given our economic situation, we simply cannot continue to provide the same levels of public service at the same levels of taxation. Several somethings have to give and that includes cutting services and employment, raising taxes, spending reserves and/or being fortunate enough to get financial aid from the State as result of the Federal CARES legislation efforts,” Watt said.

The biggest part of the $34.5 million deficit stems from loss of sales tax, as well as less state funding for school bond debt reimbursement. In the proposed budget, which was introduced April 1, the City Manager recommends a property tax increase of 1 mill, for a total mill levy rate of 11.66. This would partially offset the loss from sales tax; 1 mill for one year generates about $5.5 million in revenue. For the typical homeowner, the proposed mill rate increase would result in a $300-$500 increase to annual property tax, and considerably less to an individual living in a condominium or rental apartment.

The interactive, high-level budget balancing tool is an Excel spreadsheet that allows you to “fix” the deficit by looking at changes to revenue and expenditures. Revenue changes include property tax increase, drawing from savings, as well as COVID-19 funding. Expenditure changes include reduction in CBJ operations, reduction in Assembly grants, as well as reduction in capital improvement project funding.

One of the expenditure change options is a reduction of capital improvement project funding to the Augustus Brown Pool in Downtown Juneau. A major renovation at the pool is scheduled to start in July. In a memo to the Finance Committee dated April 14, the city manager is recommending to delay the renovations, maintain the pool in good working order, re-allocate the $3.3 million of capital improvement project funding to the budget problem, and to revisit this situation in about six months.

The Assembly is scheduled to pass a budget and set the property tax mil levy by June 15.

For more information, contact City Manager Rorie Watt at 586-5240 or [email protected].

April 15th, 2020|

Assembly Finance Committee meets Wednesday, April 15; Special Assembly Meeting April 16 cancelled

Assembly Finance Committee Meeting:

The Assembly Finance Committee will be meeting tonight, Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 5p.m. and will be broadcast live on the CBJ website through Vimeo and Facebook Live.

Adhering to the State of Alaska mandate on gatherings, members of the public are welcome to listen in by calling 907-463-5043. Callers will hear a message stating they have reached the Alaska Legislative Teleconference System and to stay on the line until they can be assisted by an operator. Callers should notify the operators of their name and that they are calling in to listen to the Assembly Finance Committee meeting. As this is a public meeting, and not a public hearing, public testimony will not be taken.

Special Assembly Meetings:

Please note that the Thursday, April 16 Special Assembly Meeting has been cancelled and the next Special Assembly Meeting will be held on Monday, April 20 at 6p.m.

If you wish to submit public comment to the Assembly, please do so by emailing [email protected].  To view Assembly and Assembly Committee agendas and packets, please go to our website at: https://juneau.org/assembly/assembly-minutes-and-agendas

For more information, contact the City Clerk’s Office at 586-5278.

April 15th, 2020|

Ordinances up for Public Hearing April 27

The following items are scheduled for a public hearing by the City and Borough of Juneau Alaska Assembly, on the dates designated below.  These hearings will be held in the Assembly Chambers of the Municipal Building.  Members of the public are encouraged to send their written public comment in advance of the meeting to the Assembly via email at [email protected].

Adhering to the State of Alaska mandate on gatherings, the Assembly Chambers will be closed to the public. Members of the public wishing to testify can call 907-713-2140 and enter the Participant Code 435563# to be placed in the call. Testimony time will be limited by the Mayor based on the number of callers dialing in to participate.

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/assembly/assembly-minutes-and-agendas

Monday, April 27, 2020, 7 p.m., Regular Assembly Meeting, Assembly Chambers

Ordinance 2020-11
An Ordinance Amending the Land Use Code Relating to Private Shared Access Requirements.

Ordinance 2019-06(U)
An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $16,000,000 as Funding for the Juneau International Airport Terminal Construction Capital Improvement Project; Funding Provided by Airport Revenue Bonds.

Ordinance 2019-06(W)
An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $20,000 as Funding for the Youth Scholarship Program, Funding Provided by Juneau Community Foundation and Friends of Zach Gordon Youth Center.

Ordinance 2019-06(Y)
An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $200,000 as Funding for the Purchase of a Land Parcel Adjacent to the Bartlett Regional Hospital Campus; Funding Provided by Bartlett Regional Hospital Fund’s Fund Balance.

Ordinance 2019-06(Z)
An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $50,000 as Funding for the Purchase of Reusable EMS Gear for CCFR Front Line Responders in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic; Funding Provided by Donations from Sealaska.

Ordinance 2019-06(AA)
An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $111,535 as Funding for the Bonnie Brae Trail to Treadwell Ditch Trail Reroute; Funding Provided by the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Lands Highway Division.

April 13th, 2020|

April 13 Special Assembly Meeting

The Special Assembly Meeting begins at 5 pm today and will be broadcast live on https://www.facebook.com/cbjuneau or https://vimeo.com/cbjuneau.

Agenda items include COVID-19 Update and Actions, and items for public hearing:

  • An Ordinance Amending the Continuity of Government Code to Improve City and Borough of Juneau Procedures for Emergencies.
  • An Ordinance Amending the Civil Defense Code to Improve City and Borough of Juneau Procedures for Emergencies.
  • An Emergency Appropriation Resolution Appropriating $200,000 to the Manager for an Emergency Rental Assistance Program; Funding Provided by the Affordable Housing Fund.

Read the full agenda packet for more details on these items and others.

To provide public comment telephonically on non-agenda and public hearing items, call 907-463-5043 up to 15-minutes prior the beginning of the meeting.

  • Callers will hear a message stating they have reached the Alaska Legislative Teleconference System and to stay on the line until they can be assisted by an operator.
  • Operators will ask the caller to identify their Name and the meeting they are calling for. The caller should provide their name, inform the operator that they are calling in for the CBJ Special Assembly meeting and identify the topic(s) they wish to testify on.
  • Public lines will be muted by default but will be unmuted by CBJ staff when it is that individual’s turn to testify.
  • The Mayor will determine the amount of time allotted to each person based on the number of individuals who are requesting to testify. The Clerk will introduce the speaker, inform them of the amount of time they have to testify, and identity of the next speakers in line so they can be ready to testify.
  • Following each caller’s testimony, the Mayor will ask the caller to stay on the phone to be able to answer any questions from Assemblymembers.
  • Once public testimony has been closed, all callers connected to the meeting will be place on “mute” for listening purposes only.
April 13th, 2020|
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