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The Juneau Assembly agreed to loan the developer money if they included five affordable units. Then, they dropped the requirement.

Local fishermen argued that the increase should only apply to cruise lines that use the docks.

Most of it will go toward a growing transportation funding deficit caused by declining enrollment and flat funding from the state.

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.

The Juneau Assembly was one vote short of suspending the sister city relationship. But Mayor Beth Weldon will be sending a letter to her counterpart in Vladivostok that conveys the Assembly’s condemnation of Putin and the war, and its support for Ukraine.

The gondola system is not a done deal for Eaglecrest. Several Assembly members on both sides of the close vote have concerns about a lack of public buy-in and unfairly leapfrogging other priorities.

Concerns over rezoning 15 acres along North Douglas Highway have ranged from road congestion, to the impact on housing stock, to public opinion, to economic inequities.

Unofficial results show Juneau Board of Education candidate Will Muldoon with a lead of 1,173 votes over the next closest candidate, Ibn Bailey.

The scale of this campaign’s finances is more typical of a competitive statehouse race than for Juneau Assembly. The candidate has the support of former Gov. Bill Walker.