CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

Yourkowski, Mayor

RESOLUTION 02-71

A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTED OFFICIALS TO DEVELOP A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH AND OTHER EFFECTED BOROUGH MUNICIPALITIES TO URGE OUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES TO ACQUIRE FUNDING FOR A U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROJECT THAT WILL COLLECT AND INTERPRET DATA AND CREATE A MODEL OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND EROSION PATTERNS ON THE BOROUGH’S COASTLINES.

WHEREAS, This model of our coastline will allow us to develop a long term borough-wide strategy for managing, planning, regulating and developing our eroding shorelines; and

WHEREAS, USGS has already funded and begun the process of collecting the data by securing a sight for a camera array that will be installed and monitored for the next year by USGS beginning this November; and

WHEREAS, This project and the associated camera array will help the City monitor the recently constructed sea wall; and

WHEREAS, The borough is already acquiring digital elevation data from Aeromap, USA to understand the patterns of erosion on the north side of Kachemak Bay from Anchor Point to the Fox River Flats; and

WHEREAS, More intensive studies such as the USGS camera array project are required to understand the processes and mechanisms of erosion, that include quantifying the frequency and magnitude of storms that cause significant sediment transport; and

WHEREAS, This USGS project will produce a comprehensive and standardized approach for understanding coastal erosion process that will result in a borough wide plan for living with our eroding shoreline.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the administration and elected officials develop a partnership with the Kenai Peninsula Borough and other effected Borough municipalities to urge our congressional representatives to acquire funding for a U. S. Geological Survey project that will collect and interpret data and create a model of sediment transport and erosion patterns on the Borough’s coastlines.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be sent to our Congressional delegation, our state representatives, the state division of governmental coordination, the borough mayor and planning director and the EVOS Trustee Council.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council this 28th day of October, 2002.

CITY OF HOMER

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ATTEST: JACK CUSHING, MAYOR

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MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK

Fiscal Note: NA