{"id":44260,"date":"2019-03-07T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/former-state-candidate-appointed-to-docks-and-harbors-board\/"},"modified":"2019-03-07T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:40:12","slug":"former-state-candidate-appointed-to-docks-and-harbors-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/former-state-candidate-appointed-to-docks-and-harbors-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Former state candidate appointed to Docks and Harbors board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former candidate for the state House of Representatives was appointed to a local board this week.<\/p>\n<p>The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly appointed Chris Dimond, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/dimond-in-the-rough-district-33-candidate-talks-about-triumph-over-alcohol-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">who ran for the House District 33 seat<\/a> this past fall, to a seat on the CBJ Docks and Harbors Board, according to a CBJ release Wednesday. Dimond&rsquo;s seat begins now and will run until June 30, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Dimond replaces Dan Blanchard on the board. Dimond is a Juneau-Douglas High School graduate. He&rsquo;s worked as a carpenter for the local carpenter&rsquo;s union, working on projects including renovations to the Treadwell Pump House and lobbying legislators on behalf of the union.<\/p>\n<p>Dimond ran for the House District 33 seat as an independent, losing to current Rep. Sara Hannan, D-Juneau, in the Nov. 6 election. Dimond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/governor-endorses-dimond-for-house-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\">earned an endorsement<\/a> from former Gov. Bill Walker, also an independent, during the lead-up to the election.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous vacancies currently open on CBJ boards. Application forms and additional information for all CBJ boards and commissions are available online at: <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.juneau.org\/clerk\/boards-committees\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/beta.juneau.org\/clerk\/boards-committees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is a Juneau Empire report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His term starts immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44261,"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":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44260","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44260"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}