The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly Finance Committee met on 2026-09-03. Mayor Weldon presided; Assemblymembers Wall and Atkinson participated by Zoom, and all other members were in Chambers. Assemblymember Hughes-Scandies left later in the meeting due to illness, leaving eight members for the remaining votes. The committee approved prior minutes, extensively amended and advanced the nonprofit sales tax ordinance, approved a one-year change to the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council grant MOA, advanced two HESCO barrier fund ordinances, received an FY26 sales tax update, and directed staff to prepare debt policies.
We will bring the Assembly Finance Committee to order for September Second, Twenty Twenty Six. Thank you. We have all Assembly members present in Chambers besides Assembly Members Wool and Atkinson who are available on Zoom. All right, and you have me here today, even though it's Ms. Wall's last chair of her finance committee meeting, because unfortunately she's a little under the weather. But she is on Zoom. So thank you for being here tonight, Ms. Wall. Um, approval of minutes, Mr. Kelly. I move that the finance committee approve the minutes for the May sixth, twenty twenty-six, May thirteenth, twenty twenty-six, May twentieth, twenty twenty-six, June third, twenty twenty-six, and July eighth, twenty twenty-six meetings. And ask for unanimous consent. Any objection to that? Seeing none, they are approved. I'll take that Madame Mayor. I just have her typically read the uh title. But never mind. We'll go to you. Okay. Madam Finance Director. Thank you. So this is your nonprofit sales tax ordinance twenty twenty-six thirty-two. Uh, you all have spent a lot of time talking about this in committee. It was referred to the full assembly on where it was referred back to committee. And so that's where we find ourselves today. Um, the memo in your packet, which is on page seventy-two of the packet, uh, just gives a super brief uh summary of the different meetings that uh we've chatted about this ordinance. And uh really uh before you uh is the ordinance as presented at the last assembly meeting where it was referred back to committee along with the suggested amendment by the city attorney. Um so that's on the pages following the memo. And um, this is here for you all to discuss, um, amend, move forward, um take no action, however, you want to um work through this ordinance. Um, I don't know that there's a lot that I need to add to it, as you all have talked about it a great deal. Uh thank you for that. So before we start with anything, any questions from the body. We have talked about this great bill. So um uh let's see here. Who wants to start? Maybe if you're doing a definition, we'll have you do the motion. Ms. Wall. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um, I did have a question. I know we've talked about this, but um it did get some, you know, um good emails and the the social service exemption, I think was was one that kind of caught my eye and was thinking a little bit more about um maybe hearing from staff about how they would interpret that. Um, because I'm starting to think there are probably this is one of the many ones that has lots of potential different um interpretations, and um want to make sure we we know what we're voting on. Uh thank you, Ms. Wall for that. Um actually I have an amendment for that that just got passed, passed out. Um I hopeing someone is sending it to you and Ms. Adkisson, and hopefully that covers it. And if it doesn't, let me know. Okay, I can hold my question until we talk about that one. All right.