A portion of the proposed borough overlaps with land that Juneau once made an effort to annex.
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New condos built with Juneau Affordable Housing Fund loan are being sold at market rate
The Juneau Assembly agreed to loan the developer money if they included five affordable units. Then, they dropped the requirement.
Juneau considers moving all city staff to Alaska Permanent Fund building
The city has been looking for new office space since this fall, when voters rejected the city’s request to fund a new City Hall through a $27 million bond.
Complaint against Juneau Fred Meyer will be heard this fall by state human rights commission
The issue relates to a 2020 incident when a sign posted at Juneau’s Fred Meyer stated that tribal IDs would not be accepted for tobacco sales.
Juneau Assembly looks into exempting food from sales tax
If groceries became exempt from sales tax and the sales tax rate went to 6% in the summer, the city’s finance director has estimated that local households would on average save, a summer visitor would pay about $1 extra, and the city would lose about half a million dollars in revenue.
‘Being good relatives’: New program aims to increase collaboration between Alaska Native tribes and corporations
Corporations and tribes serve the same communities, but sometimes the two entities are at odds or struggle to coordinate over community decisions.