A letter sent to the city last week argued that nine proposed projects don’t meet the terms of a 2019 settlement agreement.
Each year, the city collects a fee from each cruise ship passenger that comes to town. Those fees — expected to add up to more than $20 million this year —But this year, some of those projects could be in jeopardy. Last week, cruise line officials sentsaying that nine of its proposed projects — including public Wi-Fi downtown and increased bus service to the Mendenhall Valley — don’t meet the terms of a 2019 settlement agreement that determines what the fees can pay for.
“We talk a lot about collaboration with CLIAA, and sometimes you need to have hard discussions. This is one of them,” she said. “But this feedback came late. It came outside of the established process, and I would recommend that the Assembly just move forward with its budget cycle.”after a three-year legal fight over marine passenger fees and how Juneau spends the money it collects from cruise ship passengers.
“CLIAA’s aware of that timeline,” Pierce said. “And we had a meeting where we discussed the budget. And then, very late in the process, they came forward with this letter that does not follow the timeline of our process.”
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