KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH
LEGAL DEPARTMENT
144 N. Binkley Street Tel. (907) 262-8609
Soldotna, Alaska 99669 Fax (907) 262-8686
TO: Tim Navarre, Assembly President
Members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly
THRU: Dale Bagley, Borough Mayor
FROM: Bob Bright, Planning Director
Colette Thompson, Borough Attorney
Jeff Sinz, Finance Director
DATE: December 28, 2000
SUBJECT: Ordinance 2001-19-19-An ordinance accepting and appropriating a grant from the U.S. Forest Service in the amount of $7,500,000 to complete activities outlined in the Spruce Bark Beetle Task Force action plan and provide funding to the Cook Inlet Tribal Council for reforestation on native inholdings and federal lands identified by the task force
In order to implement the remaining recommendations of the Spruce Bark Beetle Task Force congress recently passed legislation approving a $7.5 million lump sum grant to the Kenai Peninsula Borough. Language showing Congressional intent supporting the appropriation requires that 10% of the funds be made available to the Cook Inlet Tribal Council for reforestation on native inholdings and federal lands identified by the task force. The ordinance authorizes the borough to accept the grant and appropriates the funds to the Environmental Protection fund. This ordinance also authorizes the previously established Forest Fire Science Technical Committee to monitor expenditures of this grant, and also creates a Reforestation Committee to monitor and provide technical expertise for the reforestation effort.
Attached to the ordinance is a proposed plan for spending these grant funds in a manner consistent with the federal appropriation and the spruce bark beetle task force plan, including expenditures for reforestation and hazard tree removal over a period of six years.