• Age as of Oct. 3, 2023

    29

  • Family (immediate/those you live with)

    N/A

  • Occupation

    HVAC/plumbing technician

  • Previous relevant experience or community involvement

    Owner/operator of Hi-Fi Senpai record/stereo shop which advocates for and supports all local musicians and artist in the community.

  • Highest level of education

    Vocational

  • Do you support ballot proposition 1?

    No

  • What's your favorite spot in Juneau?

    Fritz Cove cliff

  • What makes you a good candidate for the Juneau Assembly?

    I would make a great candidate for Assembly because I’m a born, raised and lifelong Juneauite. I’ve spent my entire life working here and gaining experience in fields from child care to trades. As a business owner and employer, I have seen the things that affect people within the community. I’m running for Assembly to put my skills and experience to work for the people, to create programs that can allow everyone to thrive for now and for future generations.

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  • The city is asking voters to fund a new city hall through a $27 million bond. What are your thoughts?

    I think there is a lot that needs to happen with the city hall scenario. I’m not a fan of any position where the city is losing money, but before any new building goes up, we need to address the processes and systems that got the current facility into $15 million in deferred maintenance, because we don’t want that to happen to a new facility.

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  • Do you think the city should limit cruise ship tourism? Why or why not? If so, how?

    I think that there should be a limit, because you can’t have the influx of tourists impacting the city infrastructure and services so much to where the local residents of the community can’t have access to them. So a big one right now is the buses, and we have local members of the community not being able to access those buses, and some of their lives depend on it for getting to work. So it’s something that needs to be addressed. If a limit could alleviate the burden on the community for the time being, that might be the appropriate decision to take, but it would really fall down to what the people really would like to see.

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  • What do you intend to do about Juneau’s housing crisis?

    I have a few plans, but the one that I think would give the greatest benefit to every facet of the community would be a land raffle. It’s in the city charter that we can do $25 per ticket, and if you raffled off just undeveloped acre plots, and if everybody in the age group applied for it, it could be upwards of $630,000 per raffle, per parcel. Then you do one each month in the year, and that could be $7.6 million for the city to be able to invest in more programs that can alleviate that. And then you have 12 new property owners. It’s not necessarily that they’ll go instantly living on that undeveloped plot, but you can leverage that plot and put it up as collateral, and invest in some other home that’s possibly already built or another business endeavor that would put you in a better economic position to purchase a home down the road.

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  • City-hired experts produced hazard maps for avalanches and landslides — how should the city balance responsible development with the needs of community members already living here?

    That’s a big item that’s had a lot of discussion in the community, and I’ve been trying to follow it as closely as I can. The new hazard maps do have possible implications affecting a lot of homes that weren’t in the original hazard maps, and there are insurance issues associated with maps like that. The city has kind of been on a path of hiring national corporations and outside sources to do consulting and give direction to how our city should be run, and as a result, we can end up with some of these less than desirable things that don’t work for the community of Juneau.

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  • What do you think is the most important issue facing Juneau right now?

    I would say that that’s housing, cost of living and high property taxes. There are many, many other issues that are facing the community right now, and a lot of them take equal importance, but the way that you can really tackle all the issues in a more widespread manner is by tackling these core issues that make it so that people want to stay here, live here, raise their families and continue in our workforce. So if we focus on the people, and make it the best possible scenario for the individuals in the community, then all other functions of the municipality will thrive as a result.

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