FNSB Assembly

An ordinance to require hand verification of votes counted by machine passed the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly last week.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough may be forced to change the way it counts votes after the Assembly last week failed to extend a service contract for vote-counting machines.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly voted 4-3 Thursday on a measure that aimed to revise the code of ethics that applies to assembly members, commission members and clerks, meaning it failed to gain enough traction to pass.

Here is a short segment, featuring just the borough assembly races, of the September 13 candidate forum hosted by the Tanana Valley League of Women Voters.

Assembly candidate forum

The FNSB Assembly held a finance meeting on Saturday, April 20.

An analysis of FNSB Assembly and School Board candidate fundraising.

Candidates for Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board and Assembly responded to questions by KUAC and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Journalists.

A sewage leak and a fire-alarm malfunction closed the Fairbanks North Star Borough’s administration building Wednesday. That included the Treasury Desk where many borough residents come to pay their property taxes, which are due on Friday. So the borough Assembly will hold an emergency meeting tonight to consider extending the tax deadline.

A long-worked Climate Action and Adaptation Plan was unanimously rejected by the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly early this morning. In a meeting that went past 1:00 a.m., the Assembly voted after a long public hearing and a citizen rally.