It was a very warm and tense multi-hour meeting in the City and Borough of Juneau’s Assembly chamber’s Wednesday night.
While the sun shined bright outside, Assembly members and community leaders gathered in the windowless room with fans blowing loud during the Finance Committee meeting to find out what community funding requests would receive funding in the city budget for the next fiscal year.
Of the 15 requests sent in that ranged from $2,000 to $1.4 million, the Assembly voted for six requests to be fully funded, five requests to be funded with a reduction and four requests to be rejected.
In total, the Assembly only accepted around $2.7 million of the $11 million in requests.
Of the requests that received no funding were two asks made by Bartlett Regional Hospital for operations totaling $2.5 million, the Dimond Park Fieldhouse elevator request by Southeast Alaska…
