MEMORANDUM

TO: Pete Sprague, Assembly President

Members, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly

THRU: Pete Sprague, Assembly President

FROM: Linda S. Murphy, Borough Clerk

Colette Thompson, Borough Attorney

DATE: June 5, 2003

SUBJECT: Ordinance 2003-25, amending KPB 4.30.010 to require school board members to be elected from their respective districts

While beginning preparations for the upcoming October regular election, it was discovered that the candidate qualification provision in the borough code should be revised to reflect the requirement that school board members reside in the district from which they were elected. This revision is consistent with the proposition approved by the borough voters October 1, 2002, providing for election of school board members from election districts rather than areawide, and is needed to remove any inconsistencies between the approved proposition and the code. Because this change should be made before the notice of offices to be filled is advertised for candidates for the election, hearing on shortened time is requested.