Three key takeaways from Juneau’s finalized city budget

Residents fill City Hall during a Juneau Assembly meeting on Monday, June 8, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
The City and Borough of Juneau has a finalized budget for the next fiscal year — but it didn’t come easy. 
Over the past few months, the Juneau Assembly spent dozens of hours debating how to plug a multimillion-dollar recurring budget hole due to the tax exemption on food and utilities and the cap on the city’s property tax rate that voters passed last fall. Th