NOTN- The City and Borough of Juneau is asking residents to weigh in on what city services matter most as officials prepare for budget cuts in the coming fiscal year.

CBJ is asking Juneau residents to take the CBJ Community Compass Survey before mid-February. Community feedback collected through this survey will help inform the CBJ assembly’s budgeting process this spring. 

“What we hope to achieve is basically gathering community input to have a deeper understanding and depth of knowledge of the community values and priorities.” Said Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon, “And the other thing that we’d like to do is just increase awareness of our budget process and how that all works.”

Following the passage of Proposition 2  , which expanded sales tax exemptions in the October 7, 2025 Regular Municipal Election, significant reductions in sales tax revenue are expected and will likely require service-level cuts to the city’s annual budget.

CBJ officials say they seek to better understand community funding priorities and values, including where residents are willing to make tradeoffs and which services are critical to quality of life.

This effort will include an online survey, in-person workshops, and Assembly listening sessions.

“We’re also looking for one broad community listening session where we’ll take public testimony on the budget.” Said Weldon, “That, in a nutshell, is what we’re trying to do for our public engagement through this process, trying to figure out what the public sees as important, and trying to figure out some kind of consensus on where the cuts are going to come from.”