{"id":77867,"date":"2021-11-02T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/docks-and-harbors-to-buy-land\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:30:00","slug":"docks-and-harbors-to-buy-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/docks-and-harbors-to-buy-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Docks and Harbors to buy land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon, Juneau Docks and Harbors will own new land.<\/p>\n

At Monday night’s Committee of the Whole meeting, City and Borough of Juneau Assembly members agreed to provide $2.88 million from the General Fund to Docks and Harbors to purchase a parcel of land located between Harris and Aurora Harbors downtown.<\/p>\n

The area is a popular location for commercial and noncommercial boat repair activities. The sale excludes the onsite University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus Technical Education Center.<\/p>\n

[Study sheds light on electrifying cruise ship docks]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n

“Purchase of this property supports the Department’s mission and is a good long term decision for the City and Borough,” reads a memo from Rorie Watt, city manager, to assembly members.<\/p>\n

According to Carl Uchytil, CBJ port director, Docks and Harbors has leased the land from the University of Alaska Southeast since 1988 for about $8,000 per year. The university offered favorable lease terms to the city because the city agreed to donate $500,000 to the university’s Egan Library.<\/p>\n

However, that long-term lease ended and the new lease terms called for a market-value rate, which would have resulted in rent costs of $230,000 a year.<\/p>\n

[Man arrested at Fred Meyer]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n

With a sale price of $2.88 million, city officials determined that transferring the money for purchase made more sense than another long-term lease. The transfer also reduces operating costs for Docks and Harbors, relieves the pressure to increase harbor fees and eliminates the need to issue a bond for the money.<\/p>\n

“It’s better to buy it and pay cash,” said Wade Bryson, Assembly member. “That’s a million dollars we don’t have to collect from taxpayers.”<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Dana Zigmund at dana.zigmund@gmail.com or 907-308-4891.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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