CITY OF HOMER
City Manager
HOMER, ALASKA
RESOLUTION 06-157
A RESOLUTION OF THE HOMER CITY COUNCIL ADOPTING AN ALTERNATIVE
ALLOCATION METHOD FOR THE FY 07 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 07 Shared Fisheries
Business Tax Program, the municipality must demonstrate to the Department of Commerce, Community
and Economic Development that the municipality suffered significant effects during calendar year 2005
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 Commerce,
Community and Economic Development; and
WHEREAS, 3 AAC 134.070 provides for the use, at the discretion of the Department of Commerce,
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 07 funding available within the Cook Inlet Fisheries Management Area in agreement with all other
municipalities in this area participating in the FY 07 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 2005 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 27th day of November, 2006.
CITY OF HOMER
ATTEST: ________________________
JAMES C. HORNADAY, MAYOR
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MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK
Fiscal Note: Previous year's Acct. 400-603-4206 and budgeted for previous years.