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CITY OF KENAI
RESOLUTION NO. 82-82
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAT, ALASKA,
ADVISING THE KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH OF THE FINANCIAL HARM WHICH
MIGHT RESULT TO THE CITY OF KENAI AND OTHER CITIES WITHIN THE
BOROUGH FROM AMENDMENT OF THE SALES TAX ORDINANCE TO EXEMPT HOME
ENERGY SOURCES AND TO RECOMMEND THAT IF THE BOROUGH WISHES TO
REDUCE SALES TAXES ON ALL CITIZENS OF THE BOROUGH THAT IT REDUCE
THE BOROUGH SALES TAX TO ONE PERCENT (I$) OR LESS.
WHEREAS, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly has introduced
Ordinance No. 82-57 to amend Chapter 5.16 of the Kenai Peninsula
Borough Code of Ordinances to exempt from sales taxes all home
energy sources, and
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WHEREAS, any exemptions from sales taxes passed by the Kenai
Peninsula Borough Assembly by State law affect similar sources
from all sales taxes enacted by cities within the Borough,
including the City of Kenai, and
WHEREAS, as a matter of policy, the Kenai Peninsula Borough
Assembly should not pass exemptions which might have a drastic
effect on the finances of all of the cities within the Borough
without first obtaining the concurrence of those cities, and
WHEREAS, no data has been developed or provided the cities or the
Borough as to the effect of such a change, and
WHEREAS, loss of sales tax revenue due to exemption of home
energy sources, oil, gas, electricity, coal, or wood, could
result in a lowering of services extended to city residents,
increase of rate of sales tax on food, clothing, or other
essentials sold to the citizens of the cities, or an increase in
the mill levy on property taxes within the cities, and
WHEREAS, if the Kenai Peninsula Borough desires to assist all
payers of sales tax within the Borough, and does not need the
sales taxes now collected, it would be of great assistance to all
citizens of the Borough if the rate of the Kenai Peninsula
Borough sales tax was reduced below its current 2% level.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KENAI, ALASKA, that the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly defer
action on Ordinance No. 82-57 until factual data as to what the
results would have been in recent years by quarter to wit, 1979,
1980, and 1981 and obtain or extend the loss for 1982.
AND BE IT RESOLVED that if the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly
desires to lower the revenue from taxes obtained from sales on
transactions within the Borough, that it lower the Kenai
Peninsula Borough sales tax from its present 2% level.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be sent
to the Mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, to the Clerk of the
Kenai Peninsula Borough for distribution to each member of the
Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, for personal distribution to
each member of the Assembly of the Kenai Peninsula Borough who
has been elected to represent the citizens of the district in
which the City of Kenai is located, and to the Mayors of the
cities of Seward, Soldotna, Homer, and Seldovia.
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI ALASKA, this 18th day
of August, 1982.
VINCENT O'REILLY, Ay -
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ATTEST:
Jzfiet Whelan, City Clerk
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