FY2015-18 Adopting an Alternative Allocation Method for the FY15 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program I Introduced by: Manager Cassidy
2 Requested by: Finance Director
3 Drafted by: Finance Director
Introduced on: 02/19/2015
4 Adopted on: 02/19/2015
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6 KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
7 RESOLUTION NO. FY2015-18
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9 A RESOLUTION OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH ASSEMBLY
10 ADOPTING AN ALTERNATIVE ALLOCATION METHOD FOR THE
11 FY15 SHARED FISHERIES BUSINESS TAX PROGRAM AND
12 CERTIFYING THAT THIS ALLOCATION METHOD FAIRLY
13 REPRESENTS THE DISTRIBUTION OF SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS OF
14 FISHERIES BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN FMA 13: KODIAK ISLAND
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16 WHEREAS, AS 29.60.450 requires that for a municipality to participate in the FY15
17 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program, the municipality must demonstrate to the
18 Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development that the
19 municipality suffered significant effects during calendar year 2013 from fisheries
20 business activities; and
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22 WHEREAS, 3 AAC 134.060 provides for the allocation of available program funding
23 to eligible municipalities located within fisheries management areas specified by the
24 Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development; and
25 WHEREAS, 3 AAC 134.070 provides for the use, at the discretion of the Department
26 of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, of alternative allocation
27 methods which may be used within fisheries management areas if all eligible
28 municipalities within the area agree�to use the method, and the method incorporates
29 some measure of the relative significant effect of fisheries business activity on the
30 respective municipalities in the area; and
31 WHEREAS, the Kodiak Island Borough proposes to use an alternative allocation method
32 for allocation of FY15 funding available within the FMA 13: KODIAK ISLAND in agreement
33 with all other municipalities in this area participating in the FY15 Shared Fisheries
34 Business Tax Program.
35 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE KODIAK
36 ISLAND BOROUGH that by this resolution certifies that the following alternative allocation
37 method fairly represents the distribution of significant effects during 2013 of fisheries
38 business activity in FMA 13: KODIAK ISLAND
39 All municipalities share equally 50% of allocation; all municipalities share remaining 50%
40 on a per capita basis.
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Resolution . F 1 -1
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41 The Kodiak Island Borough population is reduced by the population of the Cities of
42 Akhiok, Kodiak, Larsen Bay, Old Harbor, Ouzinkie, and Port Lions
43 ADOPTED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
44 THIS NINETEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2015
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46 KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
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50 ATTEST: Jerrol Friend,18orough Mayor
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54 Nova M. Javier, MMC, ;rough Clerk
Kodiak Island Borough, I sal ti a. Y 1 -
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