School board president Sally Saddler is a shoe-in for re-election. Saddler is the only candidate for two school board seats. Randy Wanamaker is also unopposed for the District Two Assembly seat. The filing period for municipal office has closed with few candidates. Both the school board and three Assembly seats are for three-year terms. Only…
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PRAC to take up possible fishermen’s memorial move
The public can weigh in on a possible move of the Alaska Commercial Fishermen’s Memorial to Marine Park at a meeting of Juneau’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee tomorrow night (Tuesday). The memorial’s board of directors has asked the city’s Docks and Harbors Department to leave the monument where it is near Taku Smokeries, and…
State gets support in its fight against Roadless Rule
The Juneau Chamber of Commerce and 13 other Southeast businesses and organizations will join in the state’s lawsuit against a federal rule that prevents road construction in certain areas of the Tongass National Forest. The Parnell administration in June appealed a federal district court decision setting aside an eight-year-old policy that exempted the Tongass from…
Fluetsch and Smith to run for CBJ Assembly
Two more candidates say they’ll run for Juneau Assembly. Financial Investment Advisor Bradley Fluetsch says he’s running for the District One seat being vacated by Merrill Sanford. Realtor Carlton Smith plans to run for the Areawide seat held until recently by Bob Doll. Fluetsch ran for mayor and lost to Bruce Botelho. He says he’s…
CBJ Assembly August 8, 2011
CBJ Assembly Meeting August 8, 2011 Agenda KTOO News Report
Sanford wants CBJ to withdraw support for Tongass Roundtable
Juneau Deputy Mayor Merrill Sanford wants the city to pull its support for the Tongass Futures Roundtable. Sanford believes the roundtable has changed direction since the assembly passed a resolution backing its work in 2007. Most logging advocates left the group earlier this year, and Sanford says he’s no longer comfortable giving it the city’s…