FY2008-17 Natural Resource Revenues Supporting The State To Commit 6% Of All Natural Resource Revenues To Alaska'sKODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
RESOLUTION NO. FY2008 -17
Introduced by: Mayor Selby
Requested by: Mayor Selby
Drafted by: AML
Introduced: 12/06/2007
Adopted: 12/06/2007
A RESOLUTION OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH ASSEMBLY
SUPPORTING THE STATE TO COMMIT 6% OF ALL NATURAL
RESOURCE REVENUES TO ALASKA'S COMMUNITIES FOR
SERVICES TO ALASKA'S PEOPLE, WITH NO CAP
WHEREAS, the State has failed to share the revenues generated by the natural resources that
belong to all of Alaska's residents; and
WHEREAS, the elimination of Revenue Sharing has had a significant negative effect on all of
Alaska's communities; and
WHEREAS, the lack of Revenue Sharing has either caused communities to raise taxes or to cut
essential services; and
WHEREAS, Revenue Sharing was once used as an incentive to encourage communities to
become organized municipalities; and
WHEREAS, the restoration of Revenue Sharing would provide communities with funding to
reduce local taxes, build infrastructure, provide for increased quality of life, and in some cases,
provide for the survival of a community; and
WHEREAS, the Alaska Municipal League has adopted a sustainable Revenue Sharing plan
which is as follows:
• The State of Alaska is urged to adopt a sustainable revenue sharing program by
annually appropriating 6% of natural resource revenues to municipalities with a base
amount of $250,000 to all boroughs; $75,000 to all cities; and $25,000 to unincorporated
communities; with the remainder to be allocated on a per capita basis and to NOT
include a cap.
• This sharing of state revenues is consistent with the Owner State concept,
intergovernmental cooperation and Constitutional provisions which provide for the
natural resource ownership by all the people of the State of Alaska.
• Delivery of services at the local level is part of the annual state responsibility to
citizen /owners for the betterment of the State of Alaska.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE KODIAK ISLAND
BOROUGH urging the State of Alaska to commit 6% of all natural resource revenue to Alaska's
communities, and avoid any cap on the 6% funding.
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the fish tax which has a municipal revenue sharing
program is excluded from the above program.
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Resolution No. FY2008 -17
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ATTEST:
ADOPTED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
THIS SIXTH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2007
KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
me M. Selby, Borough Ma
Nova M. Javier, CM*, Borough Clerk
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska Resolution No. FY2008 -17
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