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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION 1983-034I Aftbk Alft� Suggested by: City Council CITY OF KENAI RESOLUTION NO. 83-34 A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA REQUESTING THE THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA TO DEFEAT SO 137 INTRODUCED BY SENATORS FAIKS, KERTTULA AND BENNETT WHICH REPEALS THE EXEMPTION IN THE LOBBYING ACT OF THE STATE OF ALASKA FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHICH PLACES LOCAL ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS A PRIVATE PAID LOBBYIST. WHEREAS, local elected and appointed officials work for and represent a locally constituted constituency and therefor are legitimate representatives of the people whom they serve who are also citizens of the State of Alaska, and WHEREAS, eliminating elected and appointed public officials from the exemption of the lobbying act of the State of Alaska, places them in the same position as a privately paid lobbyist whose only concern is to represent private interests as opposed to the public interest and creates a hardship upon local elected and appointed officials in carrying out their responsibilities for the people who have elected and appointed them to represent the public's best interests by adding additional paperwork and expense to their responsibilities unnecessarily, and WHEREAS, locally elected and appointed officials stand in the same stead to their consitutency as do the duly elected legislators in the Thirteenth Alaska Legislature with the exception that legislator's constituency at times represent both incorporated and unincorporated local government constituencies, and WHEREAS, it appears this legislation is personal interest legislation and in effect benefits private interest lobbyist groups and negatively affects local constituencies represented by elected and appointed officials, and WHEREAS, with the passage of this ionislation it would appear that the number of lobbyists would substantially increase whose only interest will be to represent private interest groups and on many occasions to the disadvantage of the constituencies throughout the State of Alaska. 1 I NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA that they go on record urging the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Alaska to defeat SB 137 on the basis that it appears not to be in the best interests of the citizens of the State of Alaska, but in fact is an enhancement of the private interests within this State at the expense of the state's constituency at large; and further, that immediately after the adoption of this resolution the Clerk of the City of Kenai shall mail copies thereof to Governor William J. Sheffield, Senators Don Gilman and Paul Fischer, and to Representatives Hugh Malone, Milo Fritz, Bette Cato and Vern Hurlbert; in addition, the Chairman and Vice -Chairman of the House State Affairs Committee, Chairman Mitchell Abood, Jr., and Vice -Chairman John Cowdery as well as the Alaska Municipal League. PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CIT F KENAI, ALMA this 16th day of March, 1983. Ronald als on, ayor ATTEST: ce�2, et Wholan,'City er lr _ 2 i, i� l� c i . I l �' :i - 1 _ _ .. .. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___=mow _ __ ,� =,i .> _��;;.