The City and Borough of Juneau’s city manager, Rorie Watt, was named the 2022 Municipal Official of the Year by the Alaska Municipal League, an award given to a staff member of a city government in Alaska who demonstrated dedication to their city and go above and beyond in their position to better the community.<\/p>\n
“He’s done a very good job as a city manager — he just does a brilliant job for us and we want to share his success in Juneau with the state,” said Mayor Beth Weldon in a phone interview with the Empire.<\/p>\n
The award was announced in Anchorage Thursday afternoon at a luncheon during AML’s annual Local Government Conference.<\/p>\n
“I was surprised and flattered, for sure, I think people are too nice,” Watt said in a phone interview with the Empire. “I am just really thankful for the opportunity to work on a lot of really interesting issues and work to make Juneau a great place to live.” <\/p>\n
Watt has been involved with CBJ for nearly three decades, with roles spanning across all facets of the municipality from working as a seasonal technician to leading CBJ engineering for nearly a decade to taking on the role of city manager which he has held since 2016.<\/p>\n
“At the end of the day I get to be the city manager of my hometown — I’m really lucky,” Watt said.<\/p>\n
• Contact reporter Clarise Larson at clarise.larson@juneauempire.com or (651)-528-1807. Follow her on Twitter at @clariselarson.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can I get a Watt Watt? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":93512,"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":[593,765,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-93511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-awards","tag-city-and-borough-of-juneau","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93511","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\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93511"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=93511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}