Final results from Juneau’s municipal elections show that the areawide candidate Paul Kelly and Ella Adkison will join the Assembly as Alicia Hughes-Skandijs and Christine Woll held onto their seats. David Noon and Britteny Cioni-Haywood are the newest participants on Juneau School Board. Juneau school Board.
While the voters have overwhelmingly overturned in the most recent plan to build a building for a new municipal hall. .
The turnout increased this year. A little more than 34% of Juneau registered voters participated in the election, up from 32.87 percentage the previous year.
Kelly and Adkison are elected to seats across the region.
Two seats across the region were to be contested this year. Paul Kelly held a strong advantage in the 10-person race until election day, but Ella Adkison’s advantage over Nano Brooks was shrinking with every update. As on the end of Friday Adkison was ranked 116 votes lower than Brooks.
However, Adkison kept her lead throughout the final count, securing the total of 114 more points over Brooks.
Kelly ended up winning around 20 percent of voting in this regional race. Kelly has said he’ll keep the outreach he made to voters in the run-up to the election.
The span style=”font-weight 400 ;”>”It’s but not an overwhelming majority, or even like a majority Juneau voters, therefore I believe that’s going to define my first term,” he said. “It’s going to to be very focused on the outreach of constituents .”
Kelly will be serving a term of three years as well as Adkison will fill in the remainder in the former members Carole Triem’s terms .
Incumbents win district seats
Assembly members Alicia Hughes and Christine Woll won the District 1 and 2 races respectively. Hughes-Skandijs got 1,462 more votes over Joe Geldhof, and Woll had 2,475 votes more over David Morris.
The span style=”font-weight 400 ;”>”One of the most rewarding tasks I’ve had the privilege of doing is representing those who live in Juneau in the capacity of a mayor,” Hughes-Skandijs said. “It’s great to know that people are interested in you .”
Hughes-Skandijs has said she’s excited to see the Assembly continue its efforts in ensuring that housing is accessible in Juneau. In the past period, it has expanded city’s grants for accessory dwelling units and also launched the short-term rental registration program and agreed to a discounted sale of land to the Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority.
She Woll and Woll will each serve a 3 years.
Noon and Cioni-Haywood are elected to the school board
David Noon and Britteny Cioni-Haywood had strong lead in the two school board seats following the start of the vote count. At the end of the day, Noon got 5,739 votes and Cioni Haywood scored 5,377.
A third board of school member candidate, Paige Sipniewski, was the only candidate who embraced the culture war issue, like limiting access to transgender children and prohibiting certain books from schools libraries. She received 3,061 votes.
Noon, a historian Professor from the University of Alaska Southeast, told me he’s heard from educators and other employees about a decline in morale due to flat funding from the state, and new mandates coming from the Alaska Reads Act.
“That’s among the issues that I’m the most worried about is the possibility that we’ll lose some truly great teachers who’ve been with us for a very many years, or going to be unable to keep certain staff members and educators of high quality who are brand new into the school,” he said.
Cioni-Haywood says she’s looking forward to bringing her knowledge of spending budgets to school boards. She was the former director of the State’s Division of Economic Development.
It is important to know the consequences. style=”font-weight 400 ;”>”I believe there’s no easy choices to make,” she said. “I believe that it’s one of the main aspects to do when facing these types of choices is being transparent and transparent about what the consequences are likely to be. .”
Cioni-Haywood chairs the Juneau Community Charter School’s Board. She announced she would quit as chair, but will remain an active board member.
Noon and Cioni-Haywood are replacing Brian Holst and Martin Stepetin on the school board. Holst is on the board as of 2014 and Stepetin was elected in the year 2020.
City hall bond rescinded
The previous year, 246 additional voters voted no instead of for the $35 million city hall bond. The margin increased to 633 votes, despite city officials cut the amount of the bond and launched an appeal for $50,000 to lobby for the bond.
“There’s most likely a variety of reasons people didn’t vote but it’s now our job to hear the people and determine how we can move forward in a responsible manner,” said City Manager Katie Koester.
Koester stated that the $16 million that the Assembly has earmarked for City Hall could be spent on renovations and repairs to the building currently. The city’s staff will be discussing any possible renovations or leases for office space in other buildings together with the Assembly.
The span style=”font-weight 400 ;”>”It’s essential to make sure the area is functional and easily accessible,” Koester said. “What could it appear like in the future is an open momentarily. .”
