2022 Juneau Municipal Election
Why are you running for re-election?
- Why are you running for re-election?
- What are you most proud of from your current term?
- What do you hope to accomplish in your next term?
School Board
Deedie Sorensen
Candidate for School Board
I’m running for the board because I feel like my personal mission, when I ran for the board the last time, was to really work on improving the quality of the reading program for children learning to read in general. And I feel like we’re about halfway through that mission, and the pandemic really didn’t help us accelerate it. But I feel like we are moving in a very good direction. We are changing up the methodologies that are being used in the classroom. And as someone who taught hundreds of children to read, I feel like my position on the board is important for helping us continue to move in the right direction.
Emil R. Mackey III
Candidate for School Board
I’m running for my second term, and I’m just running to ensure that there’s somebody there that can make decisions based upon the evidence that is presented at the time with the maximum efficiency and effectiveness you can expect out of a school board member.
District 2 Assembly
Wade Bryson
Candidate for District 2 Assembly
I really enjoy the work that we do on the Assembly, I really liked this Assembly, it’s a very high-functioning group. City administrators are great. And I really feel the impact of the things that we’re doing on the Assembly in the community. So it’s, it’s really great to be a part of that.
District 1 Assembly
Greg Smith
Candidate for District 1 Assembly
I’m running because there’s still more work to be done. I’m just finishing my first term, and a big part of that was taken over by COVID. I think we did some good things during that through it all, as a community and as an Assembly. But again, more work to be done. We know housing is an issue, we’re putting in a lot of focus and energy and resources to that. But there’s just other priorities I want to work on — we need to continue to make Juneau a good place to live for people of all ages, I want to help build more year-round tourism, need to focus on our solid waste issues, make Juneau more livable and cost effective for families, looking at things like taking sales tax off food. And then I think we have some climate goals that are important for us as a community.
Areawide Assembly
Carole Triem
Candidate for Areawide Assembly
I’m running for re-election because I think that there are things that we, as the Assembly, have done over the last four years that I have been on the Assembly that we’ve started that are still in progress, and I want to see them through. The main one at the moment is housing, which is everybody’s big priority now. And I think we’re making a lot of progress on housing. So I want to see that through and then I have some other goals when it comes to budgeting in our finance process.