Resolution 15-004(S) Requesting the Alaska Legislature Re-Appropriate Waddell Way Improvement Funds to the Public Safety Building

CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

                                                                                                                                     Mayor

RESOLUTION 15-004

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA, REQUESTING THAT THE ALASKA LEGISLATURE RE-APPROPRIATE THE $1,405,000 THAT THE CITY RECEIVED FOR THE WADDELL WAY ROAD IMPROVEMENT TO A NEW PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING.

               WHEREAS, The City has received a Legislative Grant in the amount of $1,405,000 for improvements to Waddell Way Road (being that it was the #1 transportation project priority at the time the grant was requested); and

               WHEREAS, Currently, the #1 City project priority is the replacement of the functionally obsolete police and fire department buildings that provides basic essential services to the community; and

               WHEREAS, In this time of capital project budget constraints, it is reasonable to sacrifice progress on past priority projects so that a current higher priority City project (that provides for an essential community service) can continue to make progress; and

               WHEREAS, The Public Safety Building is included in the City’s current Capital Improvement Plan Priority List.

               NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Homer City Council hereby respectfully requests that the Alaska Legislature re-appropriate the $1,405,000 grant for the design and construction of the Waddell Way Road Improvements (15-DC-062) to  design and construction of the New Public Safety Building.

               BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager and the City lobbyist are authorized to take the appropriate and necessary measures to assist our Legislators in making this request a reality.

                PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council this 12th day of January, 2015.

CITY OF HOMER

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                                                                                                         MARY E. WYTHE, MAYOR

ATTEST:

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JO JOHNSON, MMC, CITY CLERK

Fiscal Note: Transfer of $1,405,000 Legislative Grant to the Public Safety Building project.