The Juneau voters have spoken — again. The majority have voted no on a bond issue desired and pushed by the Juneau Assembly, for the second year in a row.
The no vote was 3,789. Yes votes totaled 3,395 as of the numbers released on Friday evening by the Juneau election office.
The Assembly had earlier this year approved a $50,000 appropriation for the city to use to try to lobby voters to approve the ballot measure that city leaders want. The cost of the building was estimated to be in excess of $43 million.
Recently, property owners had seen significant increases to the property assessments by the city assessor, driving property taxes higher and making some residents feel the city was punishing them for voting against building the city hall last year.
Others observed that the upkeep of the existing city hall appears to have been ignored, including a deteriorated exterior paint on the building that lends it a particularly slummy look.
Final results will be posted once the Canvass Review Board and Election Official certify the election on Oct. 17. At this writing, there are an estimated 1,500 ballots yet to be counted, but the trend is going against the bond measure. The election on the city hall question started with a no-vote advantage of 127 votes, and that has expanded to a 394-vote advantage as of Friday.
Darn, keep trying. We’ll get it eventually
Ak Guy, try this bait: why do we need it?
I wonder what they will do to get around it this time.
The sadder issue is in a community of roughly 30,000 less than 9000 bothered to vote.
You could fit 3 racquetball court’s in the meeting hall. It needs Roman columns to project power.
These darn elections are undermining our democracy!
Remember raising the property taxes was to crucify all the folks who voted NO LAST TIME around.
Great job for running it down one more time BUT the 3300 folks who voted for it are still a problem. The Rorie Watts, Beth Kertulla, Bruce Botello’s, crooked Assembly Members and the other liberal/socialists in Juneau will just repackage the vote one more time. It will be a ballot measure again.
The old days in Juneau when you had no transgenders, ill directed librarians. drag queens, flagrant disrespect for the law. Plenty of whinny schoolteachers and citizens who cared as a whole.
Ah for the old days.
It’s not over yet. There are still many ballots remaining and all the counting is being done in the secret building on the outskirts of town. We’ll see…
E.R.I.C. Inc. to the rescue.
The trouble is that while the Juneau electorate defeated Rorie’s dream of a new CBJ cathedral of government , the voters sent back to the Assembly the same folks who foisted this bad idea upon them.
What did Einstein say about the definition of insanity?
This is what infuriates me. How were we able to defeat the tax and spend agenda for a new city hall, and yet send the same people who pushed it on us back to the assembly. Absolute insanity. Juneau will continue its fiscal suffering regardless.
Odds of this killing the initiative are zero.
The diehard statists pushing this measure will eventually get it done, once Juneau moves from mail-in voting to telepathic voting.
“The new city hall funding bill has received 99.7% ‘yes’ votes in the most recent election! And anyone questioning these elections results will be declared a domestic terrorist.”
You forgot the ballots pre filled out for their convenience.
Maybe they should have put the 50000 into maintenance. You can still buy a lot of paint for that.
Finally, an election that wasn’t rigged!
(all the other elections that didn’t go the way I wanted them to must’ve been rigged, right?)
This is performative art. Regardless if the vote, it will get done. We all know it.
Time to double down ….Call Guito and force the issue.
We are going to spend $100,000 of the serfs money.
If we dont get our new clubhouse We will break them trying.
They don’t know what to do when they are told no but they will repackage it or rename it and the politicians will get it.
Actually, the existing city hall building is just fine. It could be improved and updated for less than $5million.
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