CITY OF HOMER
City Manager
HOMER, ALASKA
Finance
RESOLUTION 01-64
A RESOLUTION OF THE HOMER CITY COUNCIL ADOPTING AN ALTERNATIVE ALLOCATION METHOD
FOR THE FY 02 SHARED FISHERIES BUSINESS TAX PROGRAM AND CERTIFYING THAT THIS ALLOCATION
METHOD FAIRLY REPRESENTS THE DISTRIBUTION OF SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS OF FISHERIES BUSINESS
ACTIVITY IN THE COOK INLET FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AREA.
WHEREAS, AS 29.60.450 requires that for a municipality to participate in the FY02 Shared Fisheries Business Tax
Program, the municipality must demonstrate to the Department of Community and Economic Development that the
municipality suffered significant effects during calendar year 2000 from fisheries business activities; and
WHEREAS, 3 AAC 134.060 provides for the allocation of available program funding to eligible municipalities located
within fisheries management areas specified by the Department of Community and Economic Development; and
WHEREAS, 3 AAC 134.070 provides for the use, at the discretion of the Department of Community and Economic
Development, of alternative allocation methods which may be used within fisheries management areas if all eligible
municipalities within the area agree to use the method, and the method incorporates some measure of the relative
significant effect of fisheries business activity on the respective municipalities in the area; and
WHEREAS, the Homer City Council proposes to use an alternative allocation method for allocation of FY 02 funding
available within the Cook Inlet Fisheries Management Area in agreement with all other municipalities in this area
participating in the FY 02 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of Homer, Alaska by this resolution certifies that the
following alternative allocation method fairly represents the distribution of significant effects during 2000 of fisheries
business activity in the Cook Inlet Fisheries Management Area:
50% divided equally and 50% divided on a per capita basis.
PASSED and ADOPTED by the City Council of Homer, Alaska this 24th day of September, 2001.
CITY OF HOMER
ATTEST: ________________________
JACK CUSHING, MAYOR
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MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK
Fiscal Note: NA