1999-22 Share Fisheries Tax FY2000KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
RESOLUTION NO. 99 -22
Introduced by: Manager Jensen
Requested by: Borough Assessor
Drafted by: Borough Clerk
Introduced: 10/07/99
Adopted: 10/07/99
A RESOLUTION ADOPTING AN ALTERNATIVE ALLOCATION METHOD FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR 2000 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 2000 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program, the municipality must
demonstrate to the Department of Community and Economic Development that the
municipality suffered significant effects during calendar year 1998 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 Economic Development; and
WHEREAS, 19 AAC 34.070 provides for the use, at the discretion of the Department
of Community and Economic Development, 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 2000 funding available within the Kodiak Island
Borough in agreement with all other municipalities in this area participating in the fiscal
year 2000 Shared Fisheries Business Tax Program;
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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 1998 of fisheries business activity in the Kodiak Island Borough:
ATTEST:
ADOPTED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
THIS SEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1999
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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
1998 by the Department of Community and Regional
Affairs.
uith A. Nielsen, , Borough Clerk
KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
G.� y L. Stevens, Borough Mayor
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