About 2,400 Juneau residents weighed in on the effects of tourism on the community.
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Resurrection Lutheran Church will be Juneau’s cold weather shelter this winter
Now that Resurrection Lutheran Church has its permit approved, it can start housing people when the weather gets below freezing.
Unofficial results show write-in candidate Will Muldoon pulling ahead in Juneau school board race
Results from other races are unchanged, and official results will not be available until Oct. 19
Juneau brings back penalty for violating COVID safety rules
Even though the penalty has been an option in the past, no fines were ever issued.
A second top-level Bartlett hospital staff member resigned
Chief Behavioral Health Officer Bradley Grigg stepped down on Friday; neither the city or the hospital board acknowledged publicly that he’d left until Monday.
Juneau Assembly drops property taxes to the lowest rate since 2013
Assembly members chose not to raise property taxes in the city after seeing better-than-expected property values and a potential uptick in tourism.
Juneau Assembly turns down $2 million donation from Norwegian Cruise Line
Assembly members asked City Manager Rorie Watt to go back to Norwegian, suggesting the company donate directly to an organization like the Juneau Community Foundation, instead of the city itself.
From taxes and federal dollars, to schools and capital projects — Juneau asks for public comment to build its budget
Beginning at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday residents can comment — via phone or Zoom — on the city’s proposed tax hike, the plan for spending federal stimulus funds and using general funds, the school district budget and capital improvement project priorities.
Federal funds could fill in Juneau’s budget gap from last year and take a big bite out of next year’s
Last year, the city spent a lot of money during the pandemic that the Assembly hadn’t originally budgeted for — that’s everything from city busses running for free to standing up an emergency operations center.
Juneau picks finalists for systemic racism review committee
The committee will review proposed laws and advise the assembly if they include a policy or implication that is racist.