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CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
RESOLUTION NO. 98-118
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEWARD,
ALASKA, ADOPTING AN ALTERNATIVE ALLOCATION METHOD FOR
THE FY 1999 SHARED FISHERIES BUSINESS TAX PROGRAM AND
CERTIFYING THAT THIS ALLOCATION METHOD FAIRLY REPRE-
SENTS THE DISTRIBUTION OF SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS OF FISHERIES
BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN THE COOK INLET FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
AREA AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO APPLY FOR
FUNDS FROM THE SHARED FISHERIES BUSINESS TAX PROGRAM
WHEREAS, AS 29.60.450 requires that, for a municipality to participate in the FY 1999
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 1997 from fisheries business activities; 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 Seward City Council proposes to use an alternative allocation method for
allocation of the FY 1999 funding available within the Cook Inlet Fisheries Management Area in
agreement with all other municipalities in this area participating in the FY 1999 Shared Fisheries
Business Tax Program;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA, that:
Section 1. The Seward City Council, certifies that the following alternative allocation
method fairly represents the distribution of significant effects during 1997 of fisheries business
activity in the Cook Inlet Fisheries Management Area:
ALTERNATIVE ALLOCATION METHOD: 50% divided equally, and
50% divided on a per capita basis.
CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
RESOLUTION NO. 98-118
Section 2. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Seward, Alaska, this 12th
day of October, 1998.
THE CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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Lowell R. Satin, Mayor
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Blatchford, Callahan, Clark, Gage, King, Orr, Satin
None
None
None
ATTEST:
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Patrick Reilly
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