1997-41 Adopting an Alternative Allocation Method for the Fiscal Year 1998 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program and Certifying that this Allocation Method Fairly Represents the Distribution of Significant Effects of Fisheries Business Activity in the KodKODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
RESOLUTION NO. 97 -41
Introduced by: Mayor Selby
Requested by: Mayor Selby
Drafted by: Mayor Selby
Introduced: 09/23/97
Adopted: 09/23/97
A RESOLUTION ADOPTING AN ALTERNATIVE ALLOCATION METHOD FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR 1998 SHARED FISHERIES BUSINESS TAX PROGRAM
AND CERTIFYING THAT THIS ALLOCATION METHOD FAIRLY REPRESENTS
THE DISTRIBUTION OF SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS OF FISHERIES
BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
WHEREAS, Alaska Statute 29.60.450 requires that for a municipality to participate
in the fiscal year 1998 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program, the municipality must
demonstrate to the Department of Community and Regional Affairs that the
municipality suffered significant effects during calendar year 1996 from fisheries
business activities; and
WHEREAS, all of the eligible communities in the Kodiak area have fisheries impacts
and provide funding and support to the fishing industry in proportion to their relative
size; and
WHEREAS, 19 AAC 34.060 provides for the allocation of available program funding
to eligible municipalities located within fisheries management areas specified by the
Department of Community and Regional Affairs; and
WHEREAS, 19 AAC 34.070 provides for the use, at the discretion of the Department
of Community and Regional Affairs, 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 Kodiak Island Borough proposes to use an alternative allocation
method for allocation of fiscal year 1998 funding available within the Kodiak Island
Borough in agreement with all other municipalities in this area participating in the fiscal
year 1998 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program;
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Resolution No. 97 -41
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE KODIAK ISLAND
BOROUGH that the Kodiak Island Borough, by this resolution, certifies that the
following alternative allocation method fairly represents the distribution of significant
effects during 1996 of fisheries business activity in the Kodiak Island Borough:
ATTEST:
Alternative Allocation Method: Available funds will be
distributed to all eligible municipalities in the Kodiak area by
taking 50% of the total funds and dividing them evenly
between all of the participating communities. The
remaining 50% of available funds will be distributed on a
per capita basis, using the population data certified for
1996 by the Department of Community and Regional
Affairs.
ADOPTED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
THIS TWENTY -THIRD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1997
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Donna F. Smith, CMC /AAE, Borough Clerk
KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
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J ome M. Selby, Borough yor
Robin Heinrichs, Presiding Officer
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Resolution No. 97 -41
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