The meeting was called to order on March 9, 2026, but metadata indicates March 10, 2026. This summary uses the provided date.
The Assembly addressed a lengthy public comment period, several ordinance readings, and key decisions on View Drive flood buyout, Eagle Crest board status, and social service funding concerns. The meeting concluded with an executive session on collective bargaining.
(41 speakers; rules suspended to allow 2 minutes each)
We'll bring the regular assembly meeting to order for March 9th. We have a full crowd, so please keep your conversations outside. Um Mr. Smith, will you lead us in the flag salute, please? Thank you, Mr. Smith. Mr. Kelly, would you do the land acknowledgement, please? Gladly, Madam Mayor. We would like to acknowledge that the city and borough of Juneau is on Clinkett Land and wish to honor the Indigenous people of this land. For more than ten thousand years, Alaska Native people have been and continue to be integral to the well-being of our community. We are grateful to be in this place, a part of this community, and to honor the culture, traditions, and resilience of the Clinkett people. Here. And for the record, Ms. Adkinson is absent. You have quorum. All right, thank you. And Miss Agison said she would join us if she could when they get down up on the hill tonight. So with that, we'll go right into special order of business. Born and raised in Geno, Sienna has demonstrated exceptional commitment to civic engagement and environmental advocacy. She has led statewide initiatives and inspired youth participation in public discourse. She has testified before the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation Board, contribute to an environmental research efforts, and spearheaded her school's Ocean Guardians Project, securing federal funding to support student-led conservation work. Sienna further demonstrates leadership through her roles as president of our school's National Honor Society chapter, student site council representative and co-chair of her state's model until United Nations Crisis Committee through her dedication to service scholarship and committee community involvement. She exemplifies the best of Genoa's youth leadership. The City and Borough of Juneau's assembly congratulates CNFR on this well-deserved recognition and extends its best wishes for continued success in her academic and professional pursuits. Presented this ninth day of March 2026. I'm very thankful for this opportunity for my community and for my parents for supporting me. And if there's not many, but if there are any youth in the crowd, believe in yourself because you can do anything. So we will now close uh sign-ups for non-part public participation on non-agenda items as we have several folks, but we're not quite there yet. Approval of minutes, Mr. Kelly. I move and ask unanimous consent that the assembly approve the minutes for the February 9th regular assembly meeting. And the February 25th special assembly meeting and ask for unanimous consent. Any objection? Seeing none, they are approved. Madam Manager, you have a couple agenda changes for us. I do, thank you. So there I have three things to mention, so please bear with me. Uh, and they all pertain to new business. First, I just want to highlight for the assembly and the public that new business is coming uh right after approval of the consent agenda and before public hearing. Those are items that that we will um anything in new business, uh, we will be taking public testimony on. The reason for this is the um staff memo on view drive and next steps is under new business, and I want to make sure since we may have members of the public here to testify on that, that we get to that um early in the agenda. Um, so that is the reason for the new business shovel. The other two items I request uh changes on is I'd like to um add an item to new business specifically for the purposes of considering a date change. And that item is the uh ordinance that was discussed at the committee of the whole on January 26th uh regarding establishing the City and Borough Eagle Crest Recreation Area Department and Recreation and Ski Area Advisory Board. That's the official title. But if you recall the topic was uh making the Eagle Crest Empowered Board and Advisory Board. That um item is currently scheduled for your um March uh 16th, Monday committee of the whole. That was the direction that was given in the um in the meeting. And I understand that just given everything going on, there may be a desire to postpone that so that that item and that conversation will happen uh under new business.