It was an expensive night for the City and Borough of Juneau after the Assembly approved the city, school district and hospital budgets after a more than two-month-long process. The budget includes $10 million towards City Hall, while lowering the city’s property tax rate to the lowest in three decades.
Though discussed for over two months, Assembly members still gave their two cents about where they think the Assembly made the right decisions in this year’s budget and what decisions were less favorable.
Assembly member Alicia Hughes-Skandijs said she doesn’t disagree with many of the decisions made in the budget process, but cautioned the Assembly to “choose what you want.”
“We have to pay for what we add to the budget and know what we’re doing,” she said, adding “I just wanted to caution us because I feel like over the years — on the limited years I’ve been…
