MEMORANDUM

TO: Timothy Navarre, Assembly President

Members, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly

THRU: Dale Bagley, Mayor

FROM: Bob Bright, Planning Director

Colette Thompson, Borough Attorney

DATE: August 23, 2001

SUBJECT: Ordinance 2000-19-12, Kenai Watershed Forum Contract

The accompanying ordinance accepts and appropriates the sum of $57,000 from the Kenai Watershed Forum. The Kenai Watershed Forum entered into a contract with the Kenai Peninsula Borough in which it would fund $110,000 to assist with implementing the borough's river habitat protection ordinances. The assembly appropriated $53,000 of this $110,000 in the fiscal year 2001 budget. The balance of $57,000 has not been appropriated as the contract was only recently executed. Upon acceptance and appropriation of these funds, the Kenai Peninsula Borough will be reimbursed for expenditures already made implementing the river habitat protection ordinances.

Shortened hearing is requested in order that the funds may be received, and the administration may close out this carry-over from the previous fiscal year.