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The assembly approved a new business model for the Carlson Center, which would open as a community center as soon as this fall, depending on the boroughâs operational status for Covid-19. Drop-in fees would be $4 for children and $6 for adults.
The vote on Saturday to expand services at the Interiorâs largest indoor arena was 5-4 with supporters looking to make the facility, which often sits idle even in normal times, more accessible and useful to residents.
New offerings under the Carlson Center reboot include indoor sports, an indoor play area, movie nights, food truck rallies, birthday parties and craft classes.
The Borough Assembly condemned any legislation âwhich would restrict voter accessâ on Thursday and also introduced a proposal to adopt ranked choice voting in Fairbanks North Star Borough elections.
The resolution on voter access passed in a 5-4 vote with supporters saying that rules such as requiring voters to provide identification amounts to voter suppression. Opponents called the resolution partisan and inflammatory and said that providing identification is a routine and uncontroversial part of life.
The resolution stemmed from a bill in the Alaska Senate aimed at tightening some rules around elections â mainly with the handling of ballots. Mention of the bill was removed from the final version of the resolution, which drew sharp debate.
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It would mean Alaskans could register to vote when applying for their PFD, but they would need to opt in, rather than opt out.
The 2016 initiative was approved by almost 65% of voters . Since then, more than 70,000 more Alaskans registered to vote between October of 2016 and January of 2021.
“I keep being told this is the will of the people. But a third of the people didn’t want it. And why didn’t they want it? Because they did not want to be automatically registered to vote to get their PFD.”
Shower filed a similar bill in 2019, which would have repealed the initiative. This year, his staff asked people on social media what they thought of the automatic voter registration.