Entering the final day for candidates to register for the municipal election, there are still a few details that need to be worked out.<\/p>\n
The main shakeup that could happen today is Assembly member Norton Gregory filing to run for mayor. Gregory, who announced his intention<\/a> on July 27 to run for mayor, would have to resign his seat on the Assembly if he files his paperwork for mayor.<\/p>\n Mayoral candidate Beth Weldon already did this<\/a>, resigning from the Assembly on Aug. 1 and filing to run for mayor. Gregory said he wanted to attend two more Assembly meetings — a Finance Committee meeting Wednesday and Committee of the Whole meeting Thursday — before resigning his seat. He said he was volunteering at Project Playground on Friday, and said Friday that he was planning on filing his paperwork today.<\/p>\n The deadline for Gregory and any other candidates is 4:30 p.m. today, and at least one prospective candidate is watching Gregory closely. Carole Triem, who briefly declared to run for a spot on the Assembly in 2017<\/a>, filed a letter of intent<\/a> with the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) this past week to run for Gregory’s Areawide Assembly seat if he resigns. Filing a letter of intent allows a candidate to start fundraising.<\/p>\n That Areawide seat won’t open up until Gregory turns in his paperwork, so Triem will have to wait for Gregory to resign before filing her paperwork with the city.<\/p>\n Entering today, there are two candidates already registered to run for mayor: Weldon and Aiding Women in Abuse and Rape Emergencies (AWARE) Executive Director Saralyn Tabachnick<\/a>. Both are holding campaign kickoff events Tuesday. Weldon’s event<\/a> runs from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Louie’s Douglas Inn. Tabachnick’s event<\/a> runs from 5-6 p.m. at Devil’s Club Brewing Company downtown.<\/p>\n The District 2 Assembly race projects to be a crowded one. There are two open seats, with Deputy Mayor Jerry Nankervis not running for re-election (as he’s running for a seat on the Statehouse) and Weldon resigning her seat to run for mayor.<\/p>\n As of the start of the day, four candidates had filed their paperwork to run for those two seats: Wade Bryson<\/a>, Don Habeger<\/a>, Michelle Hale<\/a> and current Board of Education member Emil Mackey<\/a>. If Gregory submits his resignation and one of the other candidates wants to run for Gregory’s Areawide seat, CBJ Clerk Beth McEwen said, they can re-submit their paperwork by 4:30 p.m. to run for the Areawide seat.<\/p>\n The two seats up for election are not equal. Nankervis’ term ends this fall, so the winner of his open seat will serve a full three-year term. Weldon still has one year left on her term, so the winner of her open seat will serve that one year and then have to run for re-election. In accordance with CBJ ordinance 29.07.040<\/a> the top vote-getter in the District 2 race will get Nankervis’ seat and the second-place finisher will get Weldon’s seat.<\/p>\n Current Assembly member Loren Jones is yet to have a challenger as he runs for re-election for his District 1 seat. If he is re-elected, Jones will enter his third and final term on the Assembly.<\/p>\n The race for the Board of Education might also be low on dramatics. There are three open seats, with Andi Story running for Statehouse, Josh Keaton not running for re-election and Mackey running for a seat on the Assembly.<\/p>\n As of the beginning of the day, three candidates had filed their paperwork for the three spots: Kevin Allen, Paul Kelly<\/a> and Elizabeth Siddon<\/a>. Allen, a 2016 Thunder Mountain High School graduate, has run for the School Board the past two years. Kelly and Siddon are first-time candidates.<\/p>\n Those wishing to vote in the Oct. 2 election have until Sept. 2 to register or update their registration. <\/p>\n \u2022 Contact reporter Alex McCarthy at 523-2271 or amccarthy@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @akmccarthy.<\/b><\/p>\n Entering the final day for candidates to register for the municipal election, there are still a few details that need to be worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[126,75,176],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-city-and-borough-of-juneau-assembly","tag-local-news","tag-municipal-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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