Resolution 16-114 Support Full Funding for the State of Alaska Harbor Facility Grant Program FY 2018

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A Resolution of the City Council of Homer, Alaska, in Support of Full Funding for the State of Alaska Harbor Facility Grant Program in the FY 2018 State Capital Budget. City Manager/Port and Harbor Director. 

Ordinance/Resolution ID: 
16-114
Ordinance/Resolution Status: 
Adopted
Introduction Date: 
11/21/2016
Effective Date: 
11/21/2016
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CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

City Manager/

Port and Harbor Director

RESOLUTION 16-114

 

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA, IN SUPPORT OF FULL FUNDING FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA HARBOR FACILITY GRANT PROGRAM IN THE FY 2018 STATE CAPITAL BUDGET.

 

WHEREAS, The majority of the public boat harbors in Alaska were constructed by the State in the 1960’s and 1970’s and serve as critical transportation links and the hubs for waterfront commerce and economic development in Alaskan coastal communities; and

 

WHEREAS, These harbor facilities are ports of refuge and areas for protection for ocean-going vessels and fishermen throughout the State of Alaska, especially in coastal Alaskan communities; and

 

WHEREAS, Over the past 30 years the State of Alaska has transferred ownership of most of these State-owned harbors to local municipalities with many of these harbor facilities in poor condition due to failure to keep up with maintenance; and

 

WHEREAS, When local municipal harbormasters formulated their annual harbor facility budgets they inherited a major financial burden that their local municipal governments could not afford; and

 

WHEREAS, In response to this financial burden, the Governor and Alaska Legislature passed legislation supported by the Alaska Association of Harbormasters and Port Administrators (AAHPA) to create the Harbor Facility Grant Program, AS 29.60.800; and

 

WHEREAS, The AAHPA endorses the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities administrative review process to review, score, and rank applicants to the Harbor Facility Grant Program since State funds may be limited; and

 

               WHEREAS, For each harbor facility grant application these municipalities have committed to invest 100% of the design and permitting costs and 50% of the construction cost; and

 

WHEREAS, The municipalities of the City of Kake, the City of Ketchikan, the City and Borough of Sitka, the Municipality of Skagway, the City of Valdez, and the City and Borough of Wrangell have offered to contribute $18,160,055 in local match funding for FY2018 towards seven harbor projects of significant importance locally as required in the Harbor Facility Grant Program; and 

 

WHEREAS, Completion of these harbor facility [projects is all dependent on the 50% match from the State of Alaska’s Municipal Harbor Facility Grant Program; and

 

               WHEREAS, During the last ten years the Municipal Harbor Facility Grant Program has only been fully funded twice, creating a backlog of projects necessary to repair and replace these former State-owned harbors in excess of $100,000,000.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of Homer, Alaska, by this Resolution, urges full funding in the amount of $18,160,055 by the Governor and the Alaska Legislature for the State of Alaska’s Municipal Harbor Facility Grant Program in the FY 2017 State Capital Budget in order to ensure enhanced safety and economic prosperity among Alaskan coastal communities.

 

PASSED and ADOPTED by the City Council of Homer, Alaska this 21st day of November, 2016.

                                                                                                        

CITY OF HOMER

 

                                                                                         

                                                                                                         ________________________________

                                                                                                         BRYAN ZAK, MAYOR

 

ATTEST:

 

 

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JO JOHNSON, MMC, CITY CLERK

 

 

Fiscal Note: N/A