Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from City and Borough of JuneauClear
0:27
Speaker A
“if, if we were to not take action on any of the pending list items, and move forward the sales tax ordinances, we'd be looking at an operating deficit of $8 million.”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:18
Speaker A
“I know we will still get independent travelers here because we have a cruise industry that brings them to us. I know it won't be as many.”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:34
Speaker A
“I believe strongly in what Travel Juno does. Um, I think making a cut of this size will be detrimental to our community. We know that marketing is always the first thing that gets cut, and then you see the results later down the line.”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:41
Neil Steininger
“You spoke to replace— potentially replacing some of this funding with marine passenger fees. Is it your intention to put forward another amendment later to our marine passenger fee budget, or is that a next year's marine passenger fee budget concept?”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:14
Speaker B
“Amendment passes 5 ayes, 4 nays.”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:41
Greg Smith
“I'm looking at their balances, you know, at one point It felt not long ago their fund balance was $30, $40-something million. Amended FY26 is potentially $64 million with a potential increase to the fund balance of $6,800,000.”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:27
Beth Weldon
“I'm trying to do the job that we set ourselves up in the fall, so I'm looking for $2 million, so some of my cuts will seem harsh, but I'm also looking at them in service reductions. I'm not looking for them from the manager's budget.”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:54
Speaker A
“I will be making a case on June 8th that we, um, do something different on the revenue side so that we can reverse all of the hard decisions that we're going to make tonight.”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:20
Beth Weldon
“hotel bed packs, they get $1,267,000-ish. Marine passenger fee, they get $614,000-ish.”May 20, 2026 CBJ Assembly Finance Committee Meeting · May 20, 2026