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NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS June 25, 2018 On the 25th day of June, 2018, the Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, adopted the legislation listed below. Resolutions and appropriating ordinances are effective immediately; other ordinances become effective 30 days after adoption or at any later date specified in the ordinance. The titles listed in this notice may not reflect amendments made at adoption. Copies of the unsigned ordinances as they were during the Assembly meeting at which it was adopted are online at https://beta.juneau.org/assembly/assembly-minutes-and-agendas ORDINANCES Ordinance 2018-20 An Ordinance Authorizing the Manager to Sell Four City and Borough of Juneau Parcels, Located at 5436 Commercial Drive and 5433 Shaune Drive, to AKBev Group LLC. Adopted. Ordinance 2018-32 An Ordinance Amending Title 72 of the City and Borough of Juneau Code Relating to Driving Without a License. Adopted. Ordinance 2018-35 An Ordinance Authorizing the Manager to Execute Permits for City and Borough of Juneau Road Reconstruction and Maintenance Projects in State Rights-of-Way with the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. Adopted. APPROPRIATING ORDINANCES Ordinance 2017-06(AX) An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $250,000 as Supplemental Funding for Harbors’ Fiscal Year 2018 Operating Budget; Funding Provided by Harbors’ Fund Balance. Adopted. RESOLUTIONS Resolution 2825 A Resolution of the City and Borough of Juneau in Support of the Juneau Fisheries Terminal Expansion. Adopted.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the following items are scheduled for a public hearing by the City and Borough of Juneau Alaska Assembly, on the dates designated below. This hearing will be held in the Assembly Chambers of the Municipal Building. Copies of the items listed below may be obtained at the City and Borough of Juneau Clerk’s Office, Room 202 of the Municipal Building or at the CBJ website at: http://www.juneau.org/assembly/novus.php Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 5:30 p.m., Special Assembly Meeting, Assembly Chambers Ordinance 2018-37 An Ordinance Authorizing an Alternative Procurement Method Related to the City and Borough’s Recycleworks Program. Monday, July 23, 2018, 7 p.m., Regular Assembly Meeting, Assembly Chambers Ordinance 2017-06(AW) An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $119,853 as Funding for Various Capital Improvement Projects and Bond Debt; Funding Provided by General Obligation Bond Interest Income. Ordinance 2018-11(A) An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $53,000 as Partial Funding for the Treadwell Mine Park Preservation Capital Improvement Project; Grant Funding Provided by the Treadwell Historic Preservation and Restoration Society. Ordinance 2018-11(C) An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $84,479 as Funding for the Parks and Recreation Department; Funding Provided by Hotel Tax Fund’s Fund Balance. Ordinance 2018-12(A) An Ordinance Appropriating $40,000 from the Treasury for FY19 School District Operations with the Sole Purpose of Funding the Auto Shop Lease Costs. Ordinance 2018-11(B) An Ordinance Appropriating to the Manager the Sum of $126,000 as Supplemental Funding for Waste Management’s Fiscal Year 2019 Operating Budget; Funding Provided by the Waste Management Fund’s Fund Balance. Ordinance 2018-36 An Ordinance Amending the Official Zoning Map of the City and Borough to Change the Zoning of USS 2305, Lot 9 Fraction (Northern Portion) and USS 2335 Fraction (Western Portion), Located at 4535 North Douglas Highway, from D-3 to D-15. ADA Accommodations Available Upon Request: Please contact the Clerk’s office 72 hours prior to any meeting so arrangements can be made to have a sign language interpreter present or an audiotape containing the Assembly’s agenda made available. The Clerk’s office telephone number is 586-5278, TDD 586-5351, e-mail: City.Clerk@juneau.org Published: July 2, 2018
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One of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence visited Europe and fell in love with pasta. He brought back a machine to make macaroni and later, he became the first president to serve macaroni and cheese as part of an official state dinner. Which Founding Father was this? Circle every fourth letter to find out!
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This week’s word:
INDEPENDENCE
The noun independence comes from the adjective independent meaning not under the control or rule of another. America gained independence in 1776. Try to use the word independence in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family.
the words by looking up, MACARONI Find down, backwards, forwards, sideways and diagonally. ENGLAND SIGNERS E I N O R A C A M P PARADE G S C C E L D E A E FATHER R I B H R P N R A O CHEESE GEORGE O G R E H T A F T P PEOPLE E N U E E D L S T L RULES G E L S E A G G T E PASTA F R E E U H N E F A EQUAL O S S Q U I E F I L WORDS KING R T E H K S D R O W FREE Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical LIFE words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
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Russell Herbert Schultz
August 20, 1951 - February 16, 2018 Russell Herbert Schultz, age 66, a resident of Leilani Estates, Pahoa, Hawaii, passed away peacefully on February 16, 2018. Born on August 20, 1951 in N. Tonawanda, New York to Herbert and Irene Schultz, he is survived by his much-loved mother and his sisters Laurie (Dennis) Orwat of Aiken, South Carolina and Cindy (Eugene) Giuseppetti of N. Tonawanda, New York; nieces Christie, Melissa, and Sarah, nephews Rob and DJ. Russ grew up in N. Tonawanda and graduated from N. Tonawanda High School in 1969. After graduation, he loaded up his Land Rover and headed out on a trip to Alaska. Shortly into that adventure, Russ received word that his draft number had come up. He drew a two-year hitch in the Army, and after training schools in Texas, Russ was sent to Vietnam to be part of the 225th Phantom Hawk Surveillance Company. He flew as an observer in the OV-1 Mohawk aircraft on forward reconnaissance and observation missions. Russ extended his original two-year commitment to three years, and upon discharge returned home to N. Tonawanda. He attended college there until the lure of Alaska called him back north. Russ spent approximately thirty years in Alaska, working at a variety of jobs: he worked on the North Slope Pipeline and for the University of Alaska, fished as both a hand troller and later as a gill-netter (aboard his boat, Genesee II); ran the downtown Juneau store, Captain’s Choice Gifts (it was during his time at the gift shop that Russ took up glass-blowing, specializing in small whales and ice worms), and worked for the State of Alaska, finishing his career at the Department of Fish and Game. After having lived in a yurt out the road for several years, Russ bought a house in Douglas and converted it into a four-plex. He did the work himself, and he considered it one of his greatest achievements. That renovation honed many skills that would come in handy later on. Russ also had quite a green thumb, as evidenced by the beautiful flower garden he kept at the four-plex. In 2005, Russ bid farewell to Alaska and moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. It was on the slopes of Kilauea that he cleared land and built his beautiful home (to be shared with his treasured, independent jungle kitty, Pester). Russ had become an excellent carpenter and craftsman, and his home was a monument to his talent and abilities. Anthuriums grew in abundance on Russ’s property, and several times a year he would delight stateside friends and family with gift boxes of those exotic flowers. Russ was always quick to lend an able and experienced hand whenever needed. He became heavily involved in community affairs during his years in Hawaii, and was a major player in the upgrading of emergency response (CERT) as well as the building of bus stop shelters and a playground in Leilani Estates. Through the years, Russ and his trusty tractor helped many a friend and neighbor--and those same friends and neighbors were there for him during his final months. Russ was one of a kind, and very much loved and cared about by all who knew him. He lived life on his own terms, and his life was rich with friends and family. If you knew Russ, then no occasion was complete without his presence. His wry sense of humor and observant wit were priceless. Understandably, his passing has left a hole in all of our hearts that cannot ever quite heal. Fair Winds and Following Seas, Russ. ___________________________________________________
-- An Open Letter to Alaskans -Federal Preemption of Alaska’s Authority for Fish & Wildlife Resource Decisions The Territorial Sportsmen, Inc. (TSI) is a Juneau-based nonprofit organization with about 1500 members. Our main purpose is to advocate for wise management of Alaska’s natural resources and to maintain the public’s access to fishing, hunting, and outdoor recreation areas. TSI strongly supports sustainable fishing, hunting, and trapping for subsistence, personal use, recreation, and commercial uses. We are publishing this letter to convey our increasing concern about actions taken by federal agencies with regard to Alaska’s fish and wildlife resources. We need to return some common sense to what has become a fish and wildlife management crisis for the State of Alaska. Decisions by the Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) are expanding into traditional state responsibilities, inconsistent with the explicit limited authority granted in Title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). Recent decisions by the FSB to enact new federal Berners Bay moose and Prince of Wales Island deer regulations illustrate a federal regulatory system that has gained momentum beyond what was intended by Congress. It is clear that unless something is done by Congress or clarified by the federal courts, the federal government will eventually preempt state fish and wildlife management on most, if not all, federal lands and federal reserved waters in Alaska. To make things even worse, the FSB has granted itself the authority to extend its jurisdiction onto adjacent state and private lands and waters. Our position is simple: we do not believe that this is what Congress intended when it passed the compromise legislation that is ANILCA. A couple of examples of FSB decisions will serve to illustrate some of our concerns: Berners Bay moose permits- During the April meeting of the FSB, the Territorial Sportsmen opposed the creation of a federal subsistence hunt for moose in Berners Bay just north of Juneau. Our testimony in opposition included the following: • In 1958 TSI worked cooperatively with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the military to capture and transport moose calves to Juneau for release in Berners Bay. • The Berners Bay transplant successfully established a moose population in an area that did not have moose and which, because of its geographic isolation, may not have been colonized by moose naturally for many years, if ever. Under attentive management that introduced population has provided an extremely popular hunt for over 50 years to all Alaskans as well as hunters from other states. Given the fact that there was not a historical moose population in Berners Bay, with no accompanying customary and traditional uses of moose, and given further that the existing moose population at Berners Bay is the result of government and private efforts, TSI believes the herd should remain available to all hunters. • The Berners Bay moose herd exists in a place that did not customarily support moose (or use of moose), and where the topography often requires specialized equipment and extra effort to access the area. Further, to reach this hunt one has to go past other moose hunting opportunities with better access and larger allowable harvests. Finally, the Berners Bay moose herd is a small , isolated population that cannot answer regional subsistence demand due to the low sustainable harvest. Despite our recommendations and its own policies, which limit federal restrictions to cases where there is a conservation problem or where existing subsistence use needs protection, the FSB decided to allocate 25% of the Berners Bay moose permits solely to federally qualified subsistence users. The effect of this is that hunters from urban areas such as Juneau, Ketchikan, Anchorage, etc. lost one quarter of their chance to be drawn for this popular hunt while rural residents who qualify as federal subsistence hunters have had their chances rise. Unit 2 deer seasons and bag limits: At the same meeting, the FSB considered a proposal to reduce the bag limit and shorten the season for non-federally qualified hunters in Game Management Unit 2 (Prince of Wales and adjacent islands). Our arguments against that proposal included the following: • Data presented by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game indicate that deer populations in Unit 2 are high, and that the number of deer taken by federally qualified hunters has actually increased over the past decade. Federally qualified hunters already have substantially more opportunity than other hunters to harvest deer under current regulations, having a higher and less restrictive bag limit (i.e., allowing taking of does) and a longer season than the state season, including a time of year (January) when the animals are at low elevations and more vulnerable to beach hunts.
• There is no indication that hunting by non-federally qualified hunters has precipitated any biological concern or that restrictions are necessary in order to provide adequate opportunity for subsistence; therefore the additional restrictions contained in this proposal are not warranted. Despite state and federal agency recommendations and other objections from the public, the FSB decided, based on testimony from local hunters in regard to difficulty finding deer during the 2017 season, to reduce the bag limit from 4 bucks to 2 bucks per year for non-federally qualified subsistence hunters (in other words hunters from outside Unit 2). Importance of These Issues The Federal Subsistence Board’s “Policy on Closures to Hunting, Trapping and Fishing on Federal Public Lands and Waters in Alaska,” adopted in 2007, states that the “Board will not restrict the taking of fish and wildlife by users on Federal Public Lands … unless necessary for the conservation of healthy populations of fish and wildlife resources, or to continue subsistence uses of those populations…” This is precisely the extent of authority Congress granted in ANILCA. There was no conservation issue in either of the examples presented here. Nor was there any threat to continued customary and traditional uses of the resources. In the case of Berners Bay moose, this hunt clearly does not exhibit the economy of effort characteristic of subsistence, and restriction of non-federally qualified hunters was not necessary for conservation or to continue customary and traditional subsistence uses by rural residents. In the case of Unit 2 deer, the FSB was willing to restrict take in order to reduce perceived conflicts between local and non-local hunters although the biological data show no indication of a conservation problem or jeopardy to existing subsistence harvest. There are a growing number of examples throughout the state where the FSB is using its authority to eliminate non-federally qualified users where there is no conservation issue or threat to legitimate subsistence uses. For example, the FSB eliminated non-federally qualified users from harvesting caribou in Unit 23 (NW Alaska) when both the state and federal biological staffs clearly indicated there was no conservation concern, and where a cooperative regional planning group supported continued participation by non-local hunters. We are raising this issue now because the pattern is clear that the federal subsistence process has drifted towards creating hunts that reduce opportunity for non-local hunters just because an area is federal land, without regard to the specific requirements set out in ANILCA. If this continues, eventually the FSB could eliminate non-rural Alaskans from hunting or fishing on federal public lands just because the Board can reduce or eliminate any perceived competition regardless of the biological status of the resources. For example, we have little doubt that the recent authorization of a limited federal subsistence hunt for Berners Bay moose will eventually lead to most or all of the allowable harvest being allocated only to federally qualified subsistence users. That will mean that Alaskans residing in Juneau will no longer be allowed to participate in this hunt despite the fact that they have been the major customary and traditional users of this resource since this hunt was first instituted. In Unit 2, Ketchikan (and other urban) hunters will have reduced deer hunting opportunity even though biological data do not indicate a conservation problem. Again, we have to ask if this is what was intended when compromise ANILCA legislation passed in 1980? Is this what our delegation and our elected officials really want? Is this really the level of support for state management we can expect from the federal agencies? Do our Congressional delegation, elected state officials and federal agencies support the FSB’s unilateral extension of their authorities onto state and private lands and waters? We do not believe that our delegation in Washington D.C. would have supported the passage of ANILCA if they had had any inclination that this is the type of scenario we could expect 38 years later. We believe that our elected officials should object to such preemption of state fish and wildlife management on federal lands where no conservation problems exist. After all, the quest for statehood was all about state management of its resources – particularly our fish and wildlife. We have put these issues before you because we sense a crisis occurring, which, left unattended, may eventually become irreversible. We are only asking that the basic intent of ANILCA be adhered to and that actions be taken to reverse this trend of unauthorized preemption. We are anxious to participate in some sort of constructive dialogue that will correct this situation and protect state fish and wildlife management authorities wherever possible.
Matt Robus, President,
on behalf of the Board of Directors Territorial Sportsmen, Inc. | PO Box 32712 Juneau, Alaska 99803 territorialsportsmen@gmail.com | (907) 789-2399