Resolution 17-018 Fisheries Business Activities That Occurred Within the FMA 14

CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

                                                                                                                                                City Manager

RESOLUTION 17-018

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA, CERTIFYING THAT THE MUNICIPALITY DID SUFFER SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS DURING THE PROGAM BASE YEAR FROM FISHERIES BUSINESS ACTIVITIES THAT OCCURRED WITHIN THE FMA 14:  COOK INLET FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AREA.

WHEREAS, AS 29.60.450 requires that for a municipality to participate in the FY 17 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program, the municipality must demonstrate to the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development that the municipality suffered significant effects during calendar year 2015 from fisheries business activities; and

WHEREAS, 3 AAC 134.060 provides that if the allocation available for the fisheries management area is less than the long-form threshold value, a municipality may demonstrate that it suffered significant effects during the program base year from fisheries business activities that occurred within that fisheries management area through a Resolution of the municipality’s governing body; and

WHEREAS, The City of Homer is located within a fisheries management area with an allocation less than the long-form threshold value; and

WHEREAS, 3 AAC 134.120 provides that this Resolution satisfies the Short-Form Application Resolution requirements under the FY 17 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Homer City Council by this Resolution certifies that the City of Homer did suffer significant effects during calendar year 2015 from fisheries business activities that occurred within the FMA 14:  COOK INLET fisheries management area and wishes to apply for funding under the FY 17 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of Homer, Alaska, this 27th day of February, 2017.

CITY OF HOMER

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BRYAN ZAK, MAYOR

ATTEST:

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JO JOHNSON, MMC, CITY CLERK

Fiscal Note:  Previous year’s Acct. No. 400-0603-4206 and budged for previous years.