CITY OF HOMER
HOMER, ALASKA
City Manager
RESOLUTION 09-118
A RESOLUTION OF THE
HOMER CITY COUNCIL ADOPTING AN
ALTERNATIVE ALLOCATION METHOD FOR THE FY 10 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 10 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 2009 from
fisheries business activities; and
WHEREAS, 3AAC 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, 3AAC 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 10 funding available within the Cook Inlet Fisheries
Management Area in agreement with all other municipalities in this area
participating in the FY 10 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 2009 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 23rd day of November, 2009.
CITY OF HOMER
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JAMES
C. HORNADAY, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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JO JOHNSON, CMC,
CITY CLERK
Fiscal Note: Previous year’s Acct. 400-603-4206 and
budgeted for previous years.