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.
CBJ Assembly Meetings
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.
Juneau approves more cash relief for low income residents
The Juneau Assembly voted 7 to 2 on an ordinance to pay out more individual grants in addition to those paid out last year.
Juneau Assembly to consider more individual assistance grants for neediest residents
Without Assembly action, 1,180 eligible, lower income adults financially hurt by the pandemic won’t be paid individual assistance grants.
Juneau works to make ‘Zoom bombing’ a criminal offense
City officials estimate that there have been about a dozen instances of what’s known as “Zoom bombing” or disrupting a meeting. Zoom bombers have successfully hijacked other public meetings in Alaska and throughout the rest of the world, often with lewd, racist or pornographic material.