Session 04-13, a Special Meeting of the Homer City Council was called to order at 7:02 p.m. by Mayor Jack Cushing at the Homer City Hall Council Chambers located at 491 E Pioneer Avenue, Homer, Alaska, and opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.

PRESENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: BECK, FENSKE, LADD, NOVAK, STARK, YOURKOWSKI.

STAFF: CITY MANAGER WREDE

CITY CLERK CALHOUN

AGENDA APPROVAL

(Addition of items to or removing items from the agenda will be by unanimous consent of the Council. HCC 1.24.040.)

The agenda was approved by consensus of the City Council with substitution Resolution 04-57(S) and the canvass board certificate of the election results.

PUBLIC COMMENTS UPON MATTERS ALREADY ON THE AGENDA

Al Waddell greeted the Council and thanked everyone who voted. He voiced appreciation for the voters, the vote and the Council and the job that they do.

VISITORS

A. Canvass Board - Election Certification Report

Norma Dudiak, Canvass Board, gave a report reading from the Election Certificate.

We, the Election Canvass Board, duly appointed, of the City of Homer, Alaska hereby certify that the validated absentee and validated questioned ballots were opened, counted, and recorded at a legally authorized and convened meeting of the City of Homer Canvass Board, held June 21, 2004 and that the results of that count are hereon entered with the certified results of the votes counted for the precinct polling places via Accu-Vote Ballot Tabulation System and that the total results are recorded hereon.

Ballot ?	#1	#2		Absentee and question counted	Total Regular Voters	%	TOTAL
YES	410	444		130	854	57.85	984
NO	332	256		129	588	42.15	717
?	38	30		259
Special Needs Voters	1	2		1			4
TOT	781	732			1513	37.73	1701
Reg Vot	2047	1963				42.42	4010

We further certify that there were 1442 Regular voters 259 Absentee voters, Special Needs Voters, and Questioned voters for a total of 1701 voters that voted in this election. Percentage of voter turn out is 42.42%. Total registered voters for the City of Homer are 4,010 as of May 14, 2004.

RESOLUTIONS

A. Resolution 04-58(S), Of the City Council of the City of Homer, Alaska Certifying the Results of the City of Homer Special Initiative Election Held June 15, 2004. City Clerk.

FENSKE/YOURKOWSKI - MOVED FOR THE ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION 04-58(S) BY READING OF TITLE.

Council acknowledged the work of and thanked the Election Workers and the Clerk's Office for their work on the election. They also thanked the voters for getting out and voting, for the good voter turn out and voiced a hope that there would be at least this good of a turn out for the regular election.

VOTE: NON OBJECTION. UNANIMOUS CONSENT.

Motion carried.

COMMENTS OF THE AUDIENCE

There were no audience comments.

COMMENTS OF THE CITY ATTORNEY

City Attorney Tans was not present.

COMMENTS OF THE CITY CLERK

City Clerk said, "Thank you."

COMMENTS OF THE CITY MANAGER

City Manager Wrede had no comment.

COMMENTS OF THE MAYOR

Mayor Cushing thanked everyone.

COMMENTS OF THE CITY COUNCIL

Councilmember Ladd commented on how surprisingly close these elections results are to the results of the survey; very, very close. He voiced his belief that in retrospect the Council needs to look at that survey and other items with it and say that this is pretty representative of the community.

Councilmember Stark concurred with Councilmember Ladd. He advised that he has done extensive review of the Citizen Survey taken in November of 2002 and that he took particular attention to the people that were interested in having Fred Meyer come to Homer. He stated that there are some other issues that garnered a lot of attention by the respondents to the survey, a 50% sample of all of the registered voters in Homer, greater than the election turnout. He voiced his thought that there are some issues there, that he has worked on the last year and a half that he has been on the Council, and that he thinks there are some issues that may be coming up.

ADJOURNMENT

There being no further business to come before the Council the meeting was adjourned at 7:13 p.m. The next Regular Meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 28, 2004 at 7 p.m. The next Committee of the Whole meeting, scheduled for Monday, June 28, 2004 at 4 p.m. All meetings scheduled to be held in the Homer City Hall Council Chambers located at 491 E. Pioneer Avenue, Homer, Alaska.

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MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK

Approved: _______________

clerk@ci.homer.ak.us, 235-3130, home number 235-2843.