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1986-72 Supporting Enhanced USCG Operating Funds Through Cost Saving Reduction Resulting from Utilization of Private Sector Housing by USCG Personnel.KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH RESOLUTION MO. 99 -72 -R A RESOLUTION OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH ASSEMBLY SUPPORTING ENHANCED U. S. COAST GUARD OPERATING FUNDS THROUGH COST SAVING REDUCTIONS RESULTING FROM UTILIZATION OF PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSING BY U. S. COAST GUARD PERSONNEL. WHEREAS, Alaska's Number 1 renewable resource, fieli'Rits, is gaining ea increasingly significant role in U. S. and Alaskan intti.rolional trade through industry development as • MAJOR universal food priuct, and WHEREAS. U. S. Coast Guard operations, originating from the notion's largest Coast Guard facility at Kodiak, are critical 10 /U. S. fisheries manage- ment enforcement. as well as life taring and rescre f'erat1 ons in the North Pacific and Baring Sea / i WHEREAS, federal budget reductions mentla't• Coast Guard cost- •f /ectir, management to facilitate increasing operational.!.r equir•m•nts, and WHEREAS. DOT /U.S. Coast Guard fungK'aiay be increasingly directed toward operational allocations when Coas tGuard personnel government housing construction. maintenance, and repair coati can b• significantly reduced, and WHEREAS, In Juneau. Alaska share no Coast Guard Ifed•ral /government! housing exists, Me needs of aggro tnibtely s7S U. S. Coast Guard p•rsonnsI of Headquarters, 17th USCG District, aro completely provided by Hi* private sautes of Juneau with r•sultant/sarings to the U. S. Coast Guard and economic b•asfits 10 the local community,, and WHEREAS, proj•ct•ddiak Coast Guard personnel housing coats can be reduced by approximately { per annum where ti• family housing allowance process is utilized to the maximum, as compared to maintenance and operations coats of government quarten, not including cost savings from radue•0 maintenance and rap�rrcosts of utilities earring thus* quarters, or their r•plae•m•nt, and /9, seas. and MIIEREA4L the aforementioned housing cost savings ore based on the 'Su t Center Kodiak Housing Study, Aas•asmeat and Future D•volopm•at 1991' prepared oad submitted by Commander, Seventeenth Coast Guard District, and updated , and � - 10IEREAS. the existing and projected supply of •imilabl• rental housing to the local community, can meet eat the c urrent and f 1• 00000 o9' Coast Guard I through 1099, and WHEREAS. the economy of the local community, Kodiak, would b• sip gl ficanlly enhanced end stabilized through greater utilization by Coast rd per soea•I of privet• sector rental housing. D.C., to strongly urge the U. S. Secretary of Transportation and the Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard. to significantly reduce or eliminate new government housing construction at U. S. Coast Guard Support Center Kodiak, with resultant immediate and ongoing savings to the Coast Guard. and enhancement to tho local economy, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the support of this resolution is respectfully requested o1: ATTEST: By Borough Clerk NOW, THEREFORE. BE IT RESOLVED, that the Kodiak Island Borough respectfully requests tnt Governor of the State of Alaska, together with all together with alt members of the Alaska Delegation to Congrass in Washington, to Resolution No. 66 -72 -R Page 2 0 State of Alaska Honorable Ted Stevens, United States Senate Honorable Frank H. Murkowaki, United States Senate Honorable Donald Young, House of Representative. Unitas States AND SE IT FURTHER RESOLVED. that copies of this resolution be sent Secretary of Transportation, United States Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard Office of Management 6 Budget, United Slates Honorable Fred F. 2asr ofl, State Senate Honorable David W. Thompson, House of Rsprsss ntativss. State of Alaska John Pugh, Mayor, City of Kodiak Mayor Tony Knowles, Anchorage, Alaska Alaska Municipal League Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference Kodiak Area Chamber of Commerce Kodiak Retailers Association. PASSED AND APPROVED this _ day of 1946. KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH By Borough Mayor By Presidiag Officer Project CG Housing - Shift to Local Economy 1147 Billets BO% m t Se►t. 88 USCG Kodiak u ried t Sept. 61 Dutch Harbor 106 Billets Total 1 Sept 86 1253 Billets 60% married Currently Proposed by USCG Kodiak Combined rehab /refurbish existing government quarters, and construct new housing 1987 -1986 estimated costs 617,000,000 (Currently Proposed) Maintenance and Operations Costs USCG 415 family units govt 11550 337 family housing allow 6960 323.520 per mo i 3,82.200 per annum per mo 3,8882,210 per annum 966,770 per mo 11.801,240 per annum Private Sector /KIB Proposal Maintenance 6 Operations Costs 303 family units govt 11550 449 family housing allow 6960 O&M Savings to USCG through govt housing units reduction 66.080 per mo 792,960 per annum Increase to Kodiak economy 107,520 (Optimum) through rentals Der mo. 1,290,240 per annum Con aervative estimate. Curently (1988) 82% married Average housing allowance enlisted and officer 688 family units 752 family units 469,650 per mo 5,835,600 per annum 431,040 per mo 5,172.480 per annum 900,690 per mo 10.608.280 per annum