Juneau seeks applicants for seven hospital board and planning commission seats by Dec. 7

The City and Borough of Juneau is taking applications through the end of the day Monday, Dec. 7, for seven seats on the Bartlett Regional Hospital Board and the Planning Commission.

The hospital board has two general public seats and one physician seat open, for full terms from Jan. 1, 2027, through 2029.

The Planning Commission has four openings: an unexpired term starting immediately and running through 2027, and three full terms from Jan. 1, 2027, through 2029.

The city calls these empowered boards. The Clerk's Office emails applicants advance interview questions specific to each board. Applicants who return the questions are scheduled for a 10-minute interview with the full Assembly, sitting as the Assembly Human Resources Committee. The committee's agenda for its Monday, Nov. 16, meeting lists Dec. 15, 16, 29 and 30 as possible interview dates.

Advisory and appeal boards take applications on a rolling basis. The Board of Equalization has four vacant seats for various terms. The Juneau Commission on Aging has four seats, two for people 65 or older and two for the general public, running Jan. 1, 2027, through Dec. 31, 2028.

Single seats starting immediately are open on the Historic Resources Advisory Committee, through June 30, 2027; the Youth Activities Board, an unexpired term through June 30, 2028; the Systemic Racism Review Committee, also through June 30, 2028; and the Personnel Board, through Jan. 31, 2027, followed by a full term from Feb. 1, 2027, through Jan. 31, 2030.

In September, Juneau had 33 vacancies across its city boards.