CITY OF HOMER

Mayor

HOMER, ALASKA

Kranich

Ladd

RESOLUTION 01-32(A)

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HOMER, ALASKA COMMUNICATING TO THE ALASKA REDISTRICTING BOARD THAT THE CITY OF HOMER, ALONG WITH NEIGHBORING KACHEMAK BAY AND LOWER COOK INLET COMMUNITIES, REMAIN IN THE SAME ELECTION DISTRICT.

WHEREAS, the Alaska Redistricting Board is established under AS 01.10.070 and required to redraw new election districts every ten years following the federal census to make legislative

election districts equal in population; and

WHEREAS, under Article VI of the Alaska Constitution as amended in 1998, the Redistricting Board is conducting meetings and soliciting public comments concerning proposed redistricting plans to equalize existing election districts; and

WHEREAS, the Alaska Redistricting Board has adopted and encouraged public input on four

redistricting plans; and

WHEREAS, the City of Homer, Kachemak Bay and Lower Cook Inlet communities are inter

dependent upon each other based upon economy, culture, topography, education, transportation,

and the marine environment; and

WHEREAS, under the Redistricting Board Plan it is proposed that community members living directly to the east of the Homer City limits are redistricted and detached from House District

Seven and inappropriately aligned with the Northern Kenai Peninsula; and

WHEREAS, the Kachemak Bay communities of Seldovia, Port Graham, Nanwalek, and others who are closely tied through daily life activities to the City of Homer and the Lower Kenai

Peninsula are proposed to be redistricted to the Kodiak House election district with whom these

communities have little in common; and

WHEREAS, the City of Homer is concerned that the splintering of the Southern Kenai Peninsula into separate House election districts will significantly and seriously impact effective representation on issues and matters of those living in the area of Kachemak Bay and the Lower Cook Inlet.

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Resolution 01-32

City of Homer

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of Homer, Alaska hereby

requests that the City of Homer and surrounding communities on Kachemak Bay and the Lower Cook Inlet be configured into a House District similar to that identified in the plan proposed by Alaskans for Fair Redistricting (AFFR); and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Council that the City of Homer and the same surrounding areas noted above be joined into a redrawn Senate District to include the Lake and Peninsula Borough and Kenai Peninsula locations to the north and east of the proposed Senate District mentioned in the AFFR plan, and not to include Kodiak.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council this 29th day of May, 2001.

CITY OF HOMER

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JACK CUSHING, MAYOR

ATTEST:

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MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK

Fiscal note: NA