CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

                                                                                                      City Manager/Fire Chief

RESOLUTION 08-27

 

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA, REQUESTING THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF FORESTRY, MAINTAIN AT LEAST THE SAME LEVEL OF WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING CAPACITY IN THE HOMER OFFICE THAT IT PROVIDED IN 2007.

 

            WHEREAS, The potential for wildland fire this spring and summer on the lower Kenai Peninsula remains high and the Homer area contains one of the most extensive rural / wildland interfaces in the Borough; and

 

            WHEREAS, Although the fuel load may have changed due to recent wildland fires, the fire danger has not diminished because fire in grassland spreads more quickly; and

 

            WHEREAS, Large stands of dead spruce trees still remain in areas close to homes and subdivisions; and

 

            WHEREAS, In 2007, the Division of Forestry deployed two fire engines, two full crews, and a supervisor to the Homer office; and

 

            WHEREAS, The Homer Volunteer Fire Department recommends that State firefighting capacity in the Homer office be maintained at the 2007 level or higher due to the threat of wildfire on the lower Peninsula.

 

            NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Homer City Council requests that the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, maintain at a minimum, the level of fire fighting capacity it deployed to the Homer office in 2007.

 

            PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council this 10th day of March, 2008.

 

                                                                                    CITY OF HOMER

                                                                 

                                                                                    _____________________________

                                                                                    JAMES C. HORNADAY, MAYOR                      

 

ATTEST:

 

______________________________

JO JOHNSON, CMC, CITY CLERK

 

Fiscal Note: N/A