Minutes of the Work Session

Denali Borough Assembly

McKinley Community Center

September 10, 2003

CALL TO ORDER Presiding Officer Jim Caswell called the work session to order at 6:40 pm.

ROLL CALL Assembly members present were: Jim Caswell, Sid Michaels, Bob Shelton, Neal Laugman, Cynthia Trytko, and Teresa Hall. Assembly members Dave Evans, Gerald Pollock, and Baxter Mercer were absent. Mayor Talerico was also in attendance.

1.) Ordinance 03-03, Version B, an ordinance amending the Denali Borough Code of Ordinances, Chapter 21, pertaining to severance tax.

CASWELL discussed concerns about the $1,000. penalty and it being too high for someone that just forgot to pay the tax. His suggestion was to leave it up to the Mayor to decide on a case-by-case basis.

TRYTKO stated that if you set precedence by not charging one person, could someone else come back later and say you didn’t charge that person. Wouldn’t that be harder to enforce?

MICHAELS discussed problems that the Borough had in prior years with a bed tax account. It seemed that we agreed to only take the interest owed.

LAUGMAN agreed.

EVANS felt that a permit is a reasonable mechanism. It is used throughout the industry.

LAUGMAN stated that his problem with using permit is that he does not think that we should be giving people permission. He stated that we should use the language that is here.

HALL stated that in this case it is used as a noun and you are trying to use it as a verb.

Mayor Talerico suggested using registration permit similar to the way the Fish and Game use. This would solve all the problems. It means that when you go in and register, you receive your permit; it’s a registration permit.

EVANS explained his other proposed amendments to the ordinance. On page 2, Section 2 (A) to delete the words “and sold.”

2.) Ordinance 03-08, Version C, an ordinance amending the Denali Borough Code of Ordinances, Title IV, Chapter 24, titled Management of Borough Real Property.

LAUGMAN stated this thing is ready to go except on page 3, item 5G, the rate schedule.

POLLOCK stated that he would prefer to use Prime Rate.

There was further discussion regarding the rate.

The following items were not discussed due to time constraints.

3.) Ordinance 03-09, Version E, an ordinance establishing a 2% general sales tax within the Denali Borough.

4.) Ordinance 03-12, Version A, an ordinance amending the Code by addition of Title 5, Chapter 36, titled a Code of Ethics for the Denali Borough Mayor, Assembly and Borough employees.

5.) Ordinance 03-13, Version A, an ordinance amending the Code by the addition of Title 5, Chapter 37, creating an Ethics Commission.

6.) Ordinance 03-14, Version A, an ordinance amending the Code by the addition of Title 5, Chapter 38, creating the Denali Borough Ethics Commission Policies and Procedures.

7.) Ordinance 03-15, Version A, an ordinance amending the Code, Appendix of Forms P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V, pertaining the Code of Ethics.

8.) Ordinance 02-16, Version A, an ordinance providing for an ethics commission and providing for disposal of alleged violations.

ADJOURNMENT CASWELL declared the work session adjourned at 6:59 pm.

ATTEST: SIGNATURE ON FILE APPROVED: SIGNATURE ON FILE

Date Approved: October 8, 2003