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Finance staff said auditors have recommended better identification of transactions the city conducts with organizations where an elected official or municipal leader has a personal interest. The proposed related-party policy would require officials and covered staff to identify vendors and entities where they have a family or financial relationship; staff said the policy is intended to improve transparency and provide auditors with a list that can be checked against payments.

Staff emphasized the form will collect vendor names or business names and not necessarily personal details (for example, a respondent would identify “Lowe’s” rather than a family member) and that staff will cross‑check any listed vendors against payment records when appropriate.

Committee members asked clarifying questions about how the policy would be applied and whether regular committee review would remain available for transfers or other sensitive items. Staff said the policy is primarily a disclosures-and-transparency measure and that operational reviews would continue.

Separately, staff presented a draft ordinance (Ordinance 21-25-38, AFC version) that would clarify when the city manager may transfer unencumbered funds among departments, agencies and offices by recognizing a special non-departmental office for capital projects. The ordinance is intended to make routine transfers between capital projects administratively cleaner and to keep such transfers visible on the consent agenda, with any member able to pull an item for separate discussion.

Assemblymember Smith moved the ordinance forward to the full assembly for introduction; the committee approved the recommendation by unanimous consent.

Staff said most capital transfers still receive committee-level review in practice (for example, at the PWOC level or by the airport board) and that the proposed change is intended to improve clarity and transparency rather than to remove oversight.

The ordinance is scheduled for introduction at the next regular assembly meeting; staff will return with the formal title and text for consideration by the full assembly.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","September 3, 2025 Assembly Finance Committee","oneSentenceSummary","The AFC reviewed a draft related-party/vendor disclosure policy and forwarded an ordinance to clarify capital-project transfers through the manager’s authority and to treat the non-departmental budget object as the place for capital project transfers; the ordinance was forwarded for introduction by unanimous consent.","taxTitle","Juneau City and Borough, Alaska","taxId",13703,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6477182,"Finance committee directs staff to draft $762,900 legislation to renovate St. Vincent de Paul sobering center; funding to come from Bartlett fund balance",3440,2068000,5508000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5713113-2eba954ca0ec065d8892438eee8c8411&start=2068&end=5508","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5713113-2eba954ca0ec065d8892438eee8c8411/thumbnail_2068000.jpg","/articles/6477182/Juneau-City-and-Borough/Alaska/Finance-committee-directs-staff-to-draft-762900-legislation-to-renovate-St-Vincent-de-Paul-sobering-center-funding-to-come-from-Bartlett-fund-balance","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6477182-9c5c79496d146931fd529b4b162c2ac9/orig.mp4?Expires=1771198254&Signature=Swu-2pdgjhVz9XX8U-BMunrYuVi0rnUs4rF28zXLNAYEwLlkFEbzxcGRUndfjCKIF7wgYk3uyJXBO8X7lZSgfBB2AHT9uJk6n9eSLx6aXw3frrn0uzxIqToafwo9bGQCm-2swBxChJWInl0IxyI11DTwFOcdsXhuaJ44NYzK2U~-Q~xAshYCVR~2WRDHj8TfdqU1UlOCda~J~vj6X-IPTGH6tR4ZF8C0JIfq5maXJCTtnisDWVjHA-bDd4AUv5VeHkm02y62Cg~rLpY~cTANJEX8MAiO8We0LOTjmX5P-pwW6B0FJiKOenP9gpIejwsm2v1fOpQeLClD7ijV7BxcRw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Assembly Finance Committee on Sept. 3 directed staff to prepare legislation to appropriate $762,900 to renovate Saint Vincent de Paul’s Teal Street facility for long-term use by the community sobering center, and asked staff to negotiate a long-term lease for the space. The committee specified the funding source as Bartlett Regional Hospital fund balance; the motion passed on roll call, 6–2.

Committee members and staff discussed three paths for addressing the sobering center’s facility needs: (1) the city directly funding renovation at St. Vincent de Paul (estimated in staff materials at about $600,763 for the construction project), (2) seeking a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to cover renovation and using hospital space on a short-term basis (staff estimated about $100,000 to convert the hospital’s Rainforest Recovery Center space), or (3) convening a joint meeting with the hospital board to negotiate a shared approach. Staff said the city could also consider using opioid-settlement funds; packet figures identified $290,000 currently available in a local opioid-settlement account.

City staff and partners said the existing sobering-center space at Saint Vincent de Paul is operational but has problems that make it unsuitable for long-term use without renovation. Juneau Police Chief Ethridge told the committee the current location is functionally convenient to other service providers but “gets infested regularly with rodents, and cockroaches,” and staff do not have a safe secure retreat area if a violent person needs to be restrained.

Chief Ethridge said CBJ’s emergency responders log about 3,500 transports related to sobering-center activity and that those transports involve “a couple hundred individual people.” Saint Vincent de Paul Executive Director Tia Skinner told the committee the nonprofit “absolutely support[s] the Sobering Center and their efforts” and that the current location is “somewhat off to the side” and has produced minimal operational impacts to the nonprofit’s other programs.

Bartlett Regional Hospital Chief Executive Keith Warner told the committee Bartlett is the only five-star hospital in the state of Alaska and described operational concerns about converting hospital space. Warner said one short-term option discussed is renovating a mobile COVID cabin to site near Saint Vincent de Paul; staff said the cabin could be converted with less than $100,000 in renovations and that further engineering and site work would be needed to confirm feasibility.

Assemblymembers debated funding sources. Assemblymember Smith originally moved that staff draft legislation appropriating $762,900, of which $290,000 would come from the opioid-settlement fund and the remainder from Bartlett funds. Assemblymember Hughes Candies (assembly transcript name) proposed an amendment to fund the entire amount from Bartlett fund balance; that amendment failed on a 4–4 vote. The committee then amended the motion to remove a specific opioid-fund requirement and later approved a motion directing staff to draft legislation with the funding source identified as Bartlett fund balance; the committee passed that final motion by roll call, 6–2.

Roll-call on the final Bartlett-funded motion (as recorded at committee roll call): Assemblymember Hughes Candies — Yes; Assemblymember Kelly — No; Assemblymember Atkinson — Yes; Assemblymember Bryson — Yes; Assemblymember Hall — No; Assemblymember Smith — Yes; Assemblymember Steininger — Yes; Chair Wall — Yes.

Staff told the committee the CDBG process is competitive and that if the city pursues CDBG funding it would not receive grant award notifications until the following spring and federal pass-through funds would not be available until September after environmental review and related steps. Staff emphasized that CDBG funds are not reimbursable for completed work; any CDBG-funded renovation would require funding to be in place before construction begins.

The committee’s direction asks staff to draft appropriate legislation to be introduced to the full assembly and to negotiate a long-term lease for use of the Saint Vincent facility for the sobering center.","After extensive debate over CDBG grants, the hospital's role and opioid-settlement funds, the AFC directed staff to draft legislation to appropriate $762,900 to renovate Saint Vincent de Paul’s Teal Street facility for long-term sobering-center use, with funding from Bartlett Regional Hospital fund balance; the motion passed 6-2.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6477187,"Assembly finance committee backs Eagle Crest move to CBJ personnel rules, forwards related resolutions",647,1375000,2022000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5713113-2eba954ca0ec065d8892438eee8c8411&start=1375&end=2022","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5713113-2eba954ca0ec065d8892438eee8c8411/thumbnail_1375000.jpg","/articles/6477187/Juneau-City-and-Borough/Alaska/Assembly-finance-committee-backs-Eagle-Crest-move-to-CBJ-personnel-rules-forwards-related-resolutions","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6477187-ea95d565e850a5ed7513ca4966571415/orig.mp4?Expires=1771198254&Signature=otH-UoeIubCfiZpPysifXigf9JJKR-yGPqvCc1rQKibTFv3HAmLdeqr-tPO4YsV0wEBi6c3DJCll7dFp~QDVkxLukauG~U6N5xB57wVhwcxw8aNn6VN0zKVOh~QL7RvYkZs0XdCmRHJKWBTEa77h07tATCc9qGFRHvQW1wGEOP4YB4-aahM~CID3Y4lt8GPx7TK8Lu~wxEIgXLIM-jBeQCs8LWVoW869Mu2KWMHc5M6RMTm5i00FxCAmagRPZtzFYCl2Ovc5NoLmXNy7qREhFFPMQ1HqGih0wFVK5Bhf0dd8T2Qe8AgwYWyD1jXTBPT-5y6pniOVC-nUNA48TAHhhA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Assembly Finance Committee on Sept. 3 voted to recommend to the full Juneau City and Borough Assembly adoption of draft resolutions that would (1) amend CBJ personnel rules to incorporate Eagle Crest staff and (2) deappropriate part of Eagle Crest’s FY26 budget after the Eagle Crest board approved a conversion plan.

Committee staff said Eagle Crest’s board and its human resources committee reviewed a proposed conversion of Eagle Crest positions from the nonprofit’s existing pay plan to the CBJ pay plan and unanimously approved the conversion and personnel-rule changes at a special board meeting on Aug. 26.

The conversion plan presented to the committee described an employee-placement process intended to keep no one at a lower salary than they currently earn and to recognize employee longevity. Under the scenario labeled “Scenario 2,” staff said employees hired before Jan. 1, 2013, would receive three step increases; those hired between Jan. 2, 2013, and Dec. 31, 2013, would receive two step increases; all others would remain at their initial placement. Staff also said an analysis would ensure no employee would receive less than a 3% increase compared with recent negotiated increases for other bargaining units.

Staff reported that, after applying conversion placements to current positions and employees, the personnel-cost increase required was smaller than the amount the assembly had appropriated in the FY26 budget. The packet included a draft deappropriation resolution the committee was asked to forward; staff noted the deappropriation amount at roughly $540,000 (packet language provided an approximate figure).

Human Resources and Risk Management Director Thomas Hargrave told the committee the personnel-rule amendments largely align Eagle Crest rules with existing CBJ personnel rules and that other updates are “modernization” housekeeping items (for example, updating references to newspaper posting and pager response to reflect online postings and cell phones).

Assemblymember Smith moved that the AFC recommend draft resolutions 4028 and 4029 to the full assembly; the committee approved the recommendation by unanimous consent.

If adopted by the assembly, the personnel-rule amendments would (a) remove a standalone Eagle Crest personnel section and substitute applicable CBJ rules for Eagle Crest employees, (b) specify the employee-placement steps described above, and (c) implement other clarifying and modernization edits staff identified in the packet.

Committee members asked about the impact on Eagle Crest’s restricted budget reserve and whether a previously projected FY26 deficit — which staff had treated as a planned draw on a restricted reserve during the budget cycle — would be resolved. Staff said the realized FY25 deficit was approximately the same size as the identified FY26 deappropriation, and that the net effect would be roughly a wash; they recommended aligning any final reserve adjustments with the FY27 budget process.

The committee forwarded both resolutions to the full assembly for introduction and further consideration.","The Assembly Finance Committee voted to forward two resolutions to the full assembly to adopt personnel-rule changes and convert Eagle Crest staff to the CBJ pay plan after Eagle Crest board approval and a staff analysis that reduced the previously budgeted personnel request.","actionData","errors"]

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Committee reviews related-party policy and forwards capital-transfer ordinance for introduction

Finance committee directs staff to draft $762,900 legislation to renovate St. Vincent de Paul sobering center; funding to come from Bartlett fund balance

Assembly finance committee backs Eagle Crest move to CBJ personnel rules, forwards related resolutions