CITY OF HOMER
City Manager
HOMER, ALASKA
RESOLUTION 04-108
A RESOLUTION OF THE HOMER CITY COUNCIL ADOPTING AN ALTERNATIVE ALLOCATION
METHOD FOR THE FY 05 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 FY 05 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 2003 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 04
funding available within the Cook Inlet Fisheries Management Area in agreement with all other municipalities in
this area participating in the FY 05 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 2003
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 13th day of December, 2004.
CITY OF HOMER
ATTEST: ________________________
JAMES C. HORNADAY, MAYOR
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MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK
Fiscal Note: Previous year's Acct. 400-4206-603 and budgeted for previous years.