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Immediately followed by Assembly Finance Committee Meeting
We would like to acknowledge that the City and Borough of Juneau is on Tlingit 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 Tlingit people. Gunalchéesh!
The public may participate in person or via Zoom webinar. Testimony time will be limited by the Mayor based on the number of participants. Members of the public that want to provide oral testimony via remote participation must notify the Municipal Clerk prior to 4pm the day of the meeting by calling 907-586-5278 and indicating the topic(s) upon which they wish to testify. For in-person participation at the meeting, a sign-up sheet will be made available at the back of the Chambers and advance sign-up is not required. Members of the public are encouraged to send their comments in advance of the meeting to BoroughAssembly@juneau.gov.
Ordinance 2022-06(b)(AX) An Ordinance Appropriating $8,100,000 to the Manager for the Purchase of the Juneau Bone and Joint Center Building at 3220 Hospital Drive; Funding Provided by Hospital Funds.
This ordinance would appropriate $8,100,000 of hospital funds for the purchase of the Juneau Bone and Joint Center Building at 3220 Hospital Drive. The property includes over 21k sq. ft. of medical and commercial space in two buildings on a 53k sq. ft. parcel. With clinical and healthcare administration space challenging to come by in the current real estate market, this acquisition would represent one of the few opportunities to increase Bartlett’s (BRH) space for growth near our existing campus. Additionally, the existing JBJC property offers steady commercial rental income, providing immediate access to positive cash flow.
This ordinance will appropriate authority to a capital improvement project for the purchase of this building to offer Bartlett maximum flexibility in transaction closing.
This request was reviewed by the Hospital Board at the April 25th, 2023, meeting.
The Manager recommends this ordinance be introduced and set for public hearing at the next regular Assembly meeting.
Ordinance 2022-06(b)(AK)(c) An Ordinance Appropriating $1,200,000 to the Manager for a Loan for the Ridgeview Subdivision Project; Funding Provided by the Affordable Housing Fund.
During the Fall 2022, Round Two competition of the Juneau Affordable Housing Fund (JAHF), four projects were awarded funding through a competitive funding round. The awardees were announced at the November 28, 2022 Lands Housing and Economic Development Committee meeting and approved at the December 12, 2022 Assembly meeting. The phase one preliminary plat and the preliminary alternative residential development plan were approved by the Planning Commission on December 12, 2022.
This ordinance appropriates funds for a low interest $1.2 million loan to Rooftop Properties, LLC, or Glacier Heights, LLC, to promote the construction of 24 units of new housing in the midtown area of Juneau. The application indicated long-term plans to build a total of 444 housing units. The loan will be secured by a deed of trust on the property.
The Systemic Racism Review Committee reviewed this request at the February 28, 2023 meeting and forwarded it to the full Assembly for public hearing.
At the direction of the Assembly Committee of the Whole at its March 6, 2023 meeting, the City Manager redrafted this ordinance with substantive changes requiring re-introduction.
The Lands, Housing and Economic Development Committee heard this topic on April 24th and forwarded version b to the Assembly. The Manager has updated this version c to explicitly authorize the Manager to subrogate the CBJ’s interests to those of a commercial lending institution (bank).
The City Manager recommends the Assembly adopt this ordinance.
Ordinance 2023-24 An Ordinance Amending the Elections Code Relating to Election Procedure.
At the January 30, 2023 Regular Assembly meeting, the Assembly directed staff to draft an ordinance which would make by mail elections the default for all CBJ elections going forward unless called for differently by the Assembly. Since that is a paradigm shift in the default method by which we conduct elections, it also required an overhaul of our current election code. Ordinance 2023-24 is mostly a housekeeping rewrite of the election code to streamline and move current by mail election sections 29.07.360 and 29.07.370 into the main body of the election code. It also provides clarity of language and codifies some of the past practices that have been in our policies and procedures into the code to enhance election transparency.
The Assembly Committee of the Whole (COW) reviewed the draft ordinance at its April 24, 2023 meeting and forwarded it to the Assembly. Your packet contains the Municipal Clerk's memo to the Assembly COW with the sectional summary of the ordinance changes to the election code.
The City Manager recommends the Assembly adopt this ordinance.
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