1987-69 Supporting Study of the Single Unit of Local Government Concept.Resolution No. 87 -69 -R
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By: Lorne White
Introduced: 11/05/87
Adopted: 11/05/87
KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
RESOLUTION NO. 87 -69 -R
A RESOLUTION OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH RELATING TO
FORMATION OF A CONSOLIDATION COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE SINGLE UNIT
OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONCEPT.
The Borough Assembly and the City Council acknowledge the
importance of the following general principles and agree that they should serve
as guidelines for the formation and functioning of any committee which is
formed to study the possible combination of local governments:
'1. The study committee to be formed as a result of the passage of
Proposition No. 2 on the October 6, 1987 Borough ballot requires the
cooperation of the Borough Assembly, the City Council, and other local
governmental entitles within the Kodiak Island Borough in order to function
efficiently and productively.
2. It is of considerable importance that the committee not prejudge the issues
which it will study and that it not become identified with or regarded as a
„creature of any particular political faction or level of government.
3. Both appointments to the study committee and the development and
implementation of procedures for its operation should be handled in such a way
as to promote the goal of assuring both the appearance and the reality of
ifairness and open- mindedness.
4. In order to function most effectively, the study committee should have
'access to competent legal advice and reasonable staff support.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Kodiak Island Borough
Assembly, in order to further the foregoing principles, the Assembly agrees to
the following:
E 1. The Borough Assembly shall appoint the Borough's representative and the
City Council the City's representative to the study committee. All other
individuals selected to serve on the committee will be appointed jointly by the
Borough Assembly and the City Council, the concurrence of both bodies being
a prerequisite to each such appointment.
2. The committee will study and report upon all alternatives for local
government within the Kodiak Island Borough and will not initially focus upon
any single predetermined option or procedure for combining local governmental
entities or allocating powers and responsibilities between them. After the
initial investigation period, the group shall focus upon consolidation and one
other form of combining local governments. The final report shall be
submitted no later than December 31, 1988.
3. The mandate of the committee will be to collect information and to provide
a forum for public testimony and discussion relating to the cost, quality and
method of delivery of local governmental services and the procedures for
avoiding or reducing duplication of effort and conflict between different bodies
of agencies of local government. The committee will not draft, circulate, or
endorse any petitions seeking or recommending specific changes in local
governmental entitles within the Kodiak Island Borough and the Borough
Assembly and City Council will comply with all requirements of Alaska law with
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generated by the committee.
4. Both the Borough Assembly and the City Council will authorize their
respective attorneys to provide advice and counsel to the committee and the
committee will be encouraged to seek such advice on appropriate issues of both
procedural and substantive law. The Borough and City attorneys will be
encouraged to cooperate with one another and copies of any written opinions
rendered to the committee by either shall be made available to both the
Borough and the City.
5. The Committee shall be composed of nine individuals as follows: one from
the Borough Assembly of the Assembly's choice; one from the City Council of
the Council's choice; one representing the villages of Port Lions, Old Harbor,
and Ouzlnkle of their choice; one representing the villages of Akhiok, Karluk,
and Larsen Bay of their choice; and the remaining five members to be jointly
agreed upon by the Assembly and the Council with two representing the City,
two representing the area outside the City and one at- large. In the event of
east -side villages and /or the west -side villages submit more than one name
each the Assembly and the Council will jointly make the final choice. The
Borough and the City agree to equally share the travel costs of the village
representatives' attendance at the committee meetings.
6. The name of the task force shall the Consolidation Committee and shall
operate under the procedures provided in KIB Code Section 2.39.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 5 day of November , 1987.
KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
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