2011-06-09 Special Meeting KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
Assembly Special Meeting
June 9, 2011
A special meeting of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly was held on Thursday, June 9,
2011, in the Borough Conference Room of the Kodiak Island Borough Building, 710 Mill Bay
Road. The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m.
Present were Mayor Jerome Selby, Assembly members Carol Austerman, Jerrol Friend,
Judy Fulp, Sue Jeffrey, Dave Kaplan, Chris Lynch, and Louise Stutes. Staff members
present were Manager Rick Gifford, Assessor Bill Roberts, Community Development
Director Bud Cassidy, Engineering and Facilities Director Woody Koning, Finance Director
Karl Short, Clerk Nova Javier, and Assistant Clerk Jessica Kilborn.
CITIZENS' COMMENTS
Mel Stephens expressed appreciation for the efforts on the budget, spoke against raising
the mill rate above 10.5 mills, and requested additional budget information be made
available on the Borough website.
CONSIDERATION OF MATTERS IN THE CALL FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING
A. Ordinance No. FY2012 -01 Levying Taxes on All Taxable Real and Personal Property
Within the Kodiak Island Borough for the Expenses and Liabilities of the Kodiak Island
Borough for the Fiscal year Commencing on the First Day of July 2011 and Ending on
the Thirtieth Day of June 2012 (Fiscal Year 2012 Budget).
The motion that was before the Assembly was to adopt Ordinance No. FY2012 -01 set at
11.00 mill rate. This ordinance included funds to be spent in the General Fund, Special
Revenue Funds, Debt Service Funds, Capital Project Funds, and Enterprise Funds. This
ordinance also levied a tax on the real and personal property within the Borough.
Three different ordinance budgets reflecting the mill rates of 11.00, 10.75, and 10.50 were
presented to the Assembly for consideration. Manager Gifford and Finance Director Short
discussed the differences between the three proposed mill rates which included various cuts
to the budget.
LYNCH moved to amend Ordinance No. FY2012 -01 by substitution reflecting the 10.75 mill
rate.
ROLL CALL VOTE ON MOTION TO AMEND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY: Austerman,
Friend, Fulp, Jeffrey, Kaplan, Lynch, and Stutes.
FULP moved to amend Ordinance No. FY2012 -01 to reflect the 11.00 mill rate giving the
extra .25 mills to the School District including the cuts as suggested by Assembly member
Friend. Motion died for lack of a second.
ROLL CALL VOTE ON MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY: Friend,
Fulp, Jeffrey, Kaplan, Lynch, Stutes, and Austerman.
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ADJOURNMENT
FRIEND moved to adjourn the meeting.
ROLL CALL VOTE ON MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY: Fulp, Jeffrey, Kaplan, Lynch,
Stutes, Austerman, and Friend.
The meeting adjourned at 8:17 p.m.
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ATTEST: J :; ome M. Selby
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Nova M. Javier,.MMC,jBorough Clerk Approved: July 7, 2011
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