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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 47. Municipal Debt › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions. › Sec. 29.47.440. Borough indebtedness.

(a) A borough may incur indebtedness on
(1) an areawide basis for areawide functions; or
(2) a nonareawide basis for functions performed only in the borough area outside all cities; or
(3) a service area basis for functions performed only in a service area.
(b) Payment of debt principal and interest as well as other costs shall be derived from the area incurring the debt under (a)(2) or (a)(3) of this section, except that the full faith and credit of the entire borough may be pledged to guarantee payment of principal and interest.
(c) If the bonded debt to be incurred by a borough is an areawide debt, the vote is areawide. If the full faith and credit of the entire borough is pledged for the payment of the debt of the borough area outside all cities or of a service area, an areawide election is held and the proposition must pass both areawide and in the area that will benefit from the improvement. If the bonded indebtedness to be incurred is limited to the borough area outside all cities, the vote is limited to voters outside all cities. If the indebtedness to be incurred is limited to a service area, the vote is limited to voters in the service area. Only the full faith and credit of the area voting on the indebtedness is pledged for the payment of the debt.
(d) The indebtedness of a municipality reclassified under AS 29.04.040 - 29.04.060 is not affected by reclassification. All property in a municipality that is reclassified remains subject to taxation to amortize bonded or other indebtedness affecting the municipality and authorized on the effective date of reclassification.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 47. Municipal Debt › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions. › Sec. 29.47.450. Service area debt.

The indebtedness of a service area acquired under AS 29.47.440 remains the indebtedness of the area that incurred the debt, notwithstanding a subsequent court determination that the service area was not validly formed under law or by virtue of a defect in the proceedings creating the service area. All property in the service area remains subject to taxation to pay the bonded indebtedness.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 47. Municipal Debt › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions. › Sec. 29.47.460. Debt for improvement area projects.

(a) A municipality may issue bonds to finance or to make loans to finance the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, or development of public improvements in improvement areas. The municipality may issue the bonds as general obligation bonds or as revenue bonds or as a combination of revenue bonds, general obligation bonds, and other forms of indebtedness. The municipality may pledge revenues described in (b) of this section, payments to be made by users and owners of the improvements, payments to be made by borrowers of the proceeds of the bonds, and any other revenues available to the municipality to the payment of bonds issued under this subsection. To the extent that the municipality issues general obligation bonds under this subsection, the provisions of AS 29.47.180 - 29.47.200 apply to the bonds. To the extent that the municipality issues revenue bonds under this subsection, the provisions of AS 29.47.250 and 29.47.260 apply to the bonds.
(b) A municipality may provide by ordinance that the tax increment from the taxes levied each year by or on behalf of the municipality on the property in an improvement area shall be used to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued under (a) of this section for improvements in that improvement area, and may irrevocably pledge the tax increment from the area for that purpose. The area described in the ordinance may be a service area. Nothing in this section obligates a municipality that has issued bonds under (a) of this section and pledged a tax increment to the payment of those bonds under this subsection to levy any tax in the improvement area or any other area or to levy a tax at any particular rate within the improvement area or any other area.
(c) The power granted by this section is in addition to other powers granted to municipalities and does not restrict or limit the powers municipalities may have under other provisions of law.
(d) In this section,
(1) “bonds” means bonds, notes, and other forms of indebtedness;
(2) “improvement area” means an area that a municipality determines to be
(A) a blighted area on the basis of the substantial presence of factors such as excessive vacant land on which structures were previously located, abandoned or vacant buildings, substandard structures, and delinquencies in payment of real property taxes; or
(B) an area that is capable of being substantially improved based on the property value within the area;
(3) “tax increment” means the portion of a tax that is attributable to the difference between the value of property within an improvement area shown on the taxing agency's assessment roll for the year when the taxes are levied and the value of the property shown on the taxing agency's last assessment roll that was equalized before the improvements in the improvement area were authorized.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 47. Municipal Debt › Article 6. Miscellaneous Provisions. › Sec. 29.47.480. Accrued actuarial liabilities of retirement systems.

(a) A municipality, or two or more municipalities jointly, may enter into a lease or other contractual agreement with a trustee, or the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority or a subsidiary of the authority, a subsidiary of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, the state bond committee, or the Alaska Pension Obligation Bond Corporation in connection with the issuance of obligations by a state entity to prepay all or a portion of each participating municipality's share of the accrued actuarial liabilities of retirement systems. Obligations issued for purposes described in this subsection must be secured and payable as provided in the agreement or under an authorizing ordinance. The agreement or ordinance may provide for reserves and for protective covenants.
(b) Amounts paid by a participating municipality in connection with obligations issued by a state entity under this section, together with proceeds of the obligations and interest or earnings, may be pooled into one or more funds or accounts, including one or more debt service funds. The assets in any of the funds or accounts may be pledged to the holders of the obligations.
(c) A municipality may enter into a funds diversion agreement with a state agency regarding payment of money on behalf of the municipality that may be applied to payments under a lease, other agreement, or obligation issued under this section. The funds diversion agreement must provide, subject to any conditions set out in the funds diversion agreement, that all or a portion of the funds otherwise payable to the municipality by the state agency shall be paid directly to the trustee, the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority, or its subsidiary, a subsidiary of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, the state bond committee, or the Alaska Pension Obligation Bond Corporation, to satisfy, in whole or part, the municipality's payments under the lease, other agreement, or obligations. Nothing in this subsection or in a funds diversion agreement entered into under this subsection obligates the state or a state agency to pay any amount to or on behalf of a municipality that the municipality is not otherwise entitled to receive or to make any payments of principal or interest on the obligations.
(d) For purposes of this section, “obligations” means bonds, notes, commercial paper, certificates of participation, or other contractual obligations.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 1. Historical Districts. › Sec. 29.55.020. Establishment of historical districts.

(a) In addition to existing municipal authority providing for the preservation, protection, and maintenance of historic sites, the local historical district commission, in consultation with the Alaska Historical Commission in the Department of Natural Resources, may establish historical districts within the boundaries of the municipality.
(b) A historical district shall be a reasonably compact area of historical significance in which two or more structures important in state or national history, and related by physical proximity or historical association, are located. For purposes of this subsection, “structures important in state or national history” means properties recommended by historical district commissions that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places or are characteristic of the Russian-American period before October 18, 1867, the early territorial period before 1930, or early Native heritage, reflecting the indigenous characteristics of Native culture in Alaska. On recommendation of the governing body of a municipality and the Alaska Historical Commission, the Department of Natural Resources may by regulation formulate additional criteria for the establishment of historical districts not inconsistent with this subsection.
(c) The establishment of a historical district under this section shall be consistent with any applicable comprehensive plan for the municipality.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.115. Notice to mortgage holder required for participation.

Before a municipality may enter into a written contract with a record owner of property to impose an assessment to repay the financing of an energy or resilience improvement project under AS 29.55.100, the property owner shall
(1) give each holder of a mortgage lien on the property at least 30 days' written notice of the intention of the property owner to participate in a program under AS 29.55.100; and
(2) obtain written consent from each holder of a mortgage lien on the property.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.120. Review required.

The record owner of property on which an assessment is imposed under AS 29.55.105 shall obtain
(1) for each proposed energy or resilience improvement project,
(A) a review of the energy, emissions, or resilience baseline conditions, as appropriate; and
(B) the projected reduction in energy costs, energy consumption or demand, or emissions affecting local air quality, or increase in resilience, as appropriate; and
(2) for each completed energy or resilience improvement project, verification that the energy or resilience improvement project was properly completed and is operating as intended.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.125. Direct acquisition by owner.

The proposed arrangements for financing an energy or resilience improvement project may authorize the property owner to
(1) purchase directly the related equipment and materials for the energy or resilience improvement project; and
(2) contract directly, including through lease, a power purchase agreement, or other service contract, for the energy or resilience improvement project.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.130. Recording of notice of assessment.

(a) A municipality that authorizes financing through assessments under AS 29.55.105 shall file written notice of each assessment in the property records of the recording district in which the property is located.
(b) The notice under (a) of this section must contain
(1) the amount of the assessment;
(2) the legal description of the property;
(3) the name of each property owner; and
(4) a reference to the statutory assessment lien provided under AS 29.55.135.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.135. Lien.

(a) Assessments under AS 29.55.105 and any interest or penalties on the assessments are liens on the property assessed and are prior and paramount to all liens except municipal tax liens and special assessments. Assessment liens may be enforced as provided in AS 29.45.320 - 29.45.470 for enforcement of property tax liens.
(b) Assessment liens run with the land, and that portion of the assessment under the assessment contract that has not yet become due is not eliminated by foreclosure of a property tax lien or a lien for an assessment.
(c) Penalties and interest may be added to delinquent installments of the assessments in the same manner as provided in AS 29.45.250.
(d) A municipality may recover costs and expenses, including attorney fees, in a suit to collect a delinquent installment of an assessment in the same manner as in a suit to collect a delinquent property tax.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.140. Bonds or notes.

(a) A municipality may issue bonds or notes to finance energy and resilience improvement projects subject to assessment under AS 29.55.105.
(b) Bonds or notes issued under this section may not be general obligations of the municipality. The bonds or notes must be secured by one or more of the following, as provided by the governing body of the municipality in the resolution or ordinance approving the bonds or notes:
(1) payments of assessments on benefited property in one or more specified regions designated under AS 29.55.100;
(2) reserves established by the municipality from grants, bonds, or net proceeds or other lawfully available funds;
(3) municipal bond insurance, lines of credit, public or private guaranties, standby bond purchase agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages, or any other available means of providing credit support or liquidity; and
(4) any other funds lawfully available for purposes consistent with AS 29.55.100 - 29.55.165.
(c) A municipal pledge of assessments, funds, or contractual rights in connection with the issuance of bonds or notes by the municipality under this section is a first lien on the assessments, funds, or contractual rights pledged in favor of the person to whom the pledge is given, without further action by the municipality. The lien is valid and binding against any other person, with or without notice.
(d) Bonds or notes issued under this section must further one or more of the following essential public and governmental purposes:
(1) improvement of the reliability of local electrical systems;
(2) reduction of energy costs;
(3) reduction of energy demand on local utilities;
(4) reduction of emissions affecting local air quality;
(5) economic stimulation and development;
(6) enhancement of property values;
(7) enhancement of employment opportunities;
(8) improvement of building resilience.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.145. Joint implementation.

A municipality may enter into an agreement with
(1) a third party to administer a program under AS 29.55.100;
(2) one or more municipalities to implement or administer jointly a program under AS 29.55.100; if two or more municipalities jointly implement a program, a single public hearing held jointly by the cooperating municipalities is sufficient to satisfy the requirement of AS 29.55.100(b)(3).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.150. Prohibited acts.

A municipality that establishes a region under AS 29.55.100 may not make the issuance of a permit, license, or other authorization from the municipality to a person who owns property in the region contingent on the person entering into a written contract to repay the financing of an energy or resilience improvement project through assessments under AS 29.55.105, or otherwise compel a person who owns property in the region to enter into a written contract to repay the financing of an energy or resilience improvement project through assessments under AS 29.55.105.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 55. Municipal Programs › Article 2. Municipal Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act. › Sec. 29.55.160. Definitions.

In AS 29.55.100 - 29.55.165,
(1) “finance” and “financing” include refinancing an existing project;
(2 “mortgage” has the meaning given in AS 13.06.050;
(3) “program” means a program established under AS 29.55.100.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 1. Community Facilities Grants. › Sec. 29.60.400. Grants for community facilities.

(a) Within the limits of appropriations for the purpose the department shall make matching grants in accordance with the provisions of AS 29.60.410 - 29.60.440 to municipalities or their nonprofit designees equal to
(1) 50 percent of the estimated reasonable costs of construction of municipal civic, convention, and community recreation centers; and
(2) 50 percent of the cost of feasibility studies relating to the construction of municipal civic, convention, and community recreation centers.
(b) A grant may be made under this section only to a municipality with the power to implement the study or project for which the grant is authorized or to its nonprofit designee. A grant for only one study and one project may be awarded to a municipality or its designee under this section.
(c) In this section, “costs of construction” means, in addition to costs directly related to a project, the sum of all costs of financing and carrying out the project, including the costs of all necessary studies, surveys, plans and specifications, architectural, engineering, or other special services, acquisition of real property, site preparation and development, purchase, construction, reconstruction, and improvement of real property and the acquisition of machinery and equipment necessary to the project; an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the grantee; and the cost of financing the project, including interest on bonds issued to finance the project, the cost of indemnity and surety bonds, premiums on insurance, legal fees, fees and expenses of trustees, depositaries, financial advisors, and the costs associated with the issuance of bonds. It does not include the cost of feasibility studies.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 1. Community Facilities Grants. › Sec. 29.60.410. Grant procedures.

(a) An application for a grant under AS 29.60.400 shall be made in a form prescribed by the commissioner.
(b) A grant shall be allotted in accordance with an agreement made between the commissioner on behalf of the state and the grantee. The agreement may include any provision agreed upon by the parties and must include in substance the following provisions:
(1) estimates of reasonable costs of the study or project as approved by the commissioner after consultation with the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;
(2) a schedule of disbursements of money from the grant if the commissioner determines that the grant money is not to be disbursed in one sum;
(3) agreement by the grantee
(A) to proceed with and complete the proposed study or project expeditiously;
(B) not to discontinue operation or dispose of all or part of a community facility for which it receives a grant without the approval of the commissioner;
(C) to apply for and make reasonable efforts to secure federal assistance that may be available for the study or project, subject to any conditions the commissioner may require to maximize the amounts of that assistance available for all projects in the state;
(D) to provide for payment of the grantee's share of the cost of the study or project;
(E) that, if federal assistance for a study or project becomes available to the grantee that was not included in the calculation of the amount of the grant, the value of the federal assistance shall be subtracted from the total value of the project and the balance shall be equally divided between the grantee and the state;
(4) alteration or modification of an approved study or project;
(5) alteration or modification of an existing facility that would have qualified for a grant at the time of initial construction if AS 29.60.400 - 29.60.440 had been in effect;
(6) remedies in case of failure to perform the agreement or noncompliance with regulations adopted under AS 29.60.420.
(c) The commissioner shall require in negotiations and in each grant agreement that continued maintenance of the community facility is the responsibility of the municipality. The municipality must show the feasibility of continuing to maintain the facility before state money may be authorized for a grant.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance. › Sec. 29.60.500. Purpose and policy.

(a) The legislature finds and declares that a major release of oil or hazardous substances into the environment presents a real and substantial threat to the economy and public welfare of the municipalities, villages, and school districts that are affected by the release and the resultant activities to contain and clean up the release.
(b) The legislature concludes that it is in the best interest of the state and its citizens to provide a readily available fund for the payment of the expenses incurred by municipalities, villages, and school districts to mitigate the social and economic effects that arise out of a major release of oil or hazardous substances and resultant cleanup activities.
(c) It is the intent of the legislature and declared to be the public policy of the state that money to defray the cost of social and economic effects on municipalities, villages, and school districts arising from a major release of oil or a hazardous substance and resultant cleanup activities and to pay for efforts to abate that release will be immediately available upon a determination that the release was sudden and that it exceeds 2,500 barrels of oil, or exceeds an amount of a hazardous substance that when released into the environment presents a real and substantial threat to the economy and public welfare of the municipalities, villages, or school districts affected by it.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance. › Sec. 29.60.520. Purposes of municipal impact grants.

(a) A grant made under AS 29.60.510 may be made
(1) only for
(A) provision of subsistence resources on which the residents of the municipality, village, or school district rely for subsistence needs;
(B) the additional costs of a reasonable and appropriate function or service, including administrative expenses for the incremental costs of providing the function or service, limited to:
(i) public health and welfare functions and services, including hospital, clinic, and emergency medical services; alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services; family support services; and the operation of waste disposal systems and water quality improvement systems;
(ii) public safety functions and services, including police protection, search and rescue, and fire protection;
(iii) public utility functions and services, including the operation of electric generating plants and distribution systems, water supply systems, telephone systems, and fuel distribution systems; and
(iv) housing functions and services, limited to leasing or making other arrangements for temporary housing to be occupied by persons associated with containment or cleanup of the release;
(C) costs associated with leasing transportation facilities for use in activities associated with the containment or cleanup;
(D) costs of repair or replacement of equipment or a capital asset associated with a function or service set out in (B) of this paragraph the useful life of which has been substantially reduced by use associated with the containment or cleanup; and
(2) to compensate the municipality, village, or school district for
(A) the reduction of revenue attributable to the release of the oil or hazardous substance; and
(B) the actual costs of projects or activities that are delayed or lost because of the efforts of the municipality, village, or school district responding to the release or associated with the containment or cleanup of oil or the hazardous substance.
(b) If money received under this section is used for a capital expenditure, the commissioner may require the municipality, village, or school district that acquired the item as a capital expenditure to transfer it to the state at the end of the period during which the item is actually used for spill response if the commissioner finds that retention of the item would confer an inappropriate benefit on the municipality, village, or school district.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance. › Sec. 29.60.530. Criteria to evaluate grant applications.

(a) In determining whether an expenditure or proposed expenditure by a municipality, village, or school district is eligible for a grant under AS 29.60.510, the department shall consider the
(1) degree to which the effect on the municipality, village, or school district is directly caused by the oil or hazardous substance release or the response to the release;
(2) availability of money to the recipient from other sources that can meet the costs of providing the functions or services; and
(3) severity of the effect addressed in the grant application.
(b) The department may reject an application for a grant under AS 29.60.510 or approve an application for a grant in an amount that is less than the amount requested by a municipality, village, or school district if the department determines that payment of the amount requested is not warranted under (a) of this section.
(c) The department shall adopt, by regulation, criteria by which to rank all or a portion of applications for the purpose of establishing the priority order of awarding grants if money requested by eligible municipalities, villages, and school districts under this section exceeds the amount available. The criteria must be based on the elements set out in (a) of this section. If the total amount of money requested by eligible municipalities, villages, and school districts under this section exceeds the amount available, the department shall rank applications for the purpose of establishing the priority order of awarding grants in accordance with the regulations.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance. › Sec. 29.60.540. Limitations on uses of grants by municipalities and villages.

(a) A municipality may not use a grant made under AS 29.60.510 to reduce current municipal tax rates or to retire its existing bonded indebtedness.
(b) Money received by a municipality, village, or school district under AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599 may not be used for a capital improvement, as that term is defined in AS 46.08.900.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance. › Sec. 29.60.560. Impact assessment and remedial plans.

(a) For each disaster emergency declared by the governor under AS 26.23.020 based on a release of oil or a hazardous substance or for each other release of oil or a hazardous substance for which money may be expended under AS 46.08.040, the commissioner, after consulting with and securing the written approval of the attorney general and after consulting with other state agencies, shall
(1) make an assessment of the social and economic effects of the release of the oil or hazardous substance;
(2) develop a plan to
(A) recover the cost of release-related expenditures; and
(B) mitigate the social and economic effects of the release of the oil or hazardous substance on the municipalities, the villages, the school districts, and the region in which the discharge occurs.
(b) The commissioner may make the assessment and plans required by (a) of this section by
(1) using staff of the department;
(2) contracting with a municipality or other entity; or
(3) authorizing a municipality or other entity to perform that work and supporting that effort by a grant.
(c) Only one assessment and one plan may be completed under this section for each declaration of a disaster emergency.
(d) The commissioner may pay the costs of the assessment, the plan, and the recovery of the cost of release-related expenditures from money available in the fund.
(e) Expenditures made under this section may be made only from the amount transferred to the commissioner under AS 29.60.510(c), unless
(1) the commissioner and the commissioner of environmental conservation mutually agree that payment may be made from money in the oil and hazardous substance release response account in the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and response fund not transferred under AS 29.60.510(c); or
(2) the commissioner pays them from another source.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance. › Sec. 29.60.599. Definitions.

In AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599,
(1) “barrel” when used with reference to oil has the meaning given in AS 43.20.144;
(2) “containment and cleanup” has the meaning given in AS 46.08.900;
(3) “disaster emergency” means a disaster declared by the governor under AS 26.23.020;
(4) “fund” means the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and response fund established by AS 46.08.010;
(5) “hazardous substance” has the meaning given in AS 46.09.900;
(6) “oil” and “release” have the meanings given in AS 46.08.900;
(7) “school district” means a borough school district, a city school district, or a regional educational attendance area under AS 14;
(8) “service”
(A) means
(i) a function performed or service provided by a municipality under a duty or power authorized by this title or by another provision of law authorizing a municipality to perform functions or provide services;
(ii) a comparable function performed or service provided by a village; or
(iii) a function performed or service provided by a school district;
(B) includes functions not previously performed and services not previously provided by the municipality or village;
(9) “village” means a place within the unorganized borough or within a borough if the power, function, or service for which a grant application is submitted under AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599 is not exercised or provided by the borough on an areawide or nonareawide basis at the time the grant application is submitted, that
(A) has irrevocably waived, in a form approved by the Department of Law, any claim of sovereign immunity that might arise in connection with the use of grant money under this chapter; and
(B) has
(i) a council organized under 25 U.S.C. 476 (sec. 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act);
(ii) a traditional village council recognized by the United States as eligible for federal aid to Indians; or
(iii) a council recognized by the commissioner under regulations adopted by the department to determine and give official recognition of village entities under AS 44.33.755(b).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program. › Sec. 29.60.600. Human services community matching grants.

(a) Within the limits of appropriations for the purpose, the Department of Health shall, upon application, make a matching grant to a qualified municipality equal to 70 percent of the estimated reasonable costs of providing essential human services through private nonprofit agencies within the municipality, including services to persons who travel to the municipality from their residences elsewhere in the state.
(b) To qualify for a grant under this section, a municipality is required to
(1) provide from other sources 30 percent of the estimated reasonable costs of providing the services to be funded by the grant; other sources may include federal or municipal money or money from other private or public sources; in this paragraph, “municipal money” includes money derived from appropriations, allocations, entitlements, grants, or other payments from the state other than the state grant under this section but does not include locally contributed staff hours, material, equipment, or other in-kind contributions;
(2) comply with the grant application procedure and contractual agreements under AS 29.60.610; and
(3) establish and consult with a citizens' advisory group, the majority of whose membership consists of persons who do not hold elected municipal office, concerning priorities and allocations among services funded under this section.
(c) A city may not receive a human services matching grant during a fiscal year to provide a specific service if, during that same year, the borough within which it is located has received a grant for the same service. A borough may not receive a grant during a fiscal year to provide a particular service if, during that same year, a city within the borough has received a grant for the same service.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program. › Sec. 29.60.610. Grant procedure; contract.

(a) If a qualified municipality wishes to apply for a grant under AS 29.60.600, the municipality shall apply for a grant for a fiscal year by submitting a form prescribed by the commissioner of health before October 1 of the preceding fiscal year. The application must generally describe the services that are proposed to be funded with the grant and include the following information:
(1) a statement that each proposed service will meet the goals established under AS 47.75.010 and an explanation of why the service is necessary to prevent or alleviate serious mental or physical hardship; this explanation must be supported by a needs assessment carried out by the municipality;
(2) a description of the categories of individuals to whom the services are to be provided; and
(3) an estimate of the expenditures required for each of the services to be provided.
(b) A human services community matching grant shall be allotted in accordance with an agreement made between the grantee and the commissioner of health on behalf of the state. The agreement may include any provision agreed upon by the parties and must include the following provisions:
(1) a statement by the grantee that the match requirement of AS 29.60.600 has been met by the grantee;
(2) estimates of reasonable costs of funding the services; and
(3) a requirement that no more than five percent of the grant money received under AS 29.60.600 may be used for municipal administrative costs connected with distributing the grant money to the private nonprofit agencies providing the services.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program. › Sec. 29.60.620. Allocation of money.

(a) If the amount of money appropriated by the legislature for human services community matching grants under AS 29.60.600 is not adequate to satisfy amounts required for the qualified municipalities who have applied for grants, the money shall be allocated proportionately among the qualified municipalities for which a grant has been approved under AS 29.60.600 - 29.60.650 based on the relationship the population of each municipality bears to the total population of the qualified municipalities for which a grant has been approved under AS 29.60.600 - 29.60.650.
(b) For purposes of (a) of this section, population shall be determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development based on the latest figures of the United States Bureau of the Census or other reliable population data. If a city within a borough has an approved grant for a service to be provided on an areawide basis, the allocation under (a) of this section shall be based on the population of the borough.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program. › Sec. 29.60.650. Definitions.

In AS 29.60.600 - 29.60.650,
(1) “essential human services” and “services” have the meaning given “social services” in AS 47.75.060 except that they include only services whose unavailability would subject persons needing the services to serious mental or physical hardship;
(2) “municipality” means a (A) city whose population is over 20,000; (B) unified municipality whose population is over 100,000; or (C) second class borough whose population is over 65,000; population for purposes of this paragraph shall be determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 6. Reimbursement for Costs of Port and Harbor Bonds. › Sec. 29.60.700. Reimbursement for costs of municipal capital projects.

(a) Subject to appropriations for the purpose, during each fiscal year, the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shall allocate to each municipality an amount to reimburse the costs paid by the municipality during the immediately preceding fiscal year for the principal and interest on outstanding debt for projects listed in (b) of this section. An allocation may be made to a municipality only if
(1) the debt was incurred by the municipality before July 1, 2007, or, if the debt is for a small boat harbor, before July 1, 2012; and
(2) the project or facility financed with the debt proceeds is located in the municipality and the project or facility is operated or controlled by the municipality.
(b) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may make an allocation to a municipality under (a) of this section only for reimbursement of costs incurred for the following construction and renovation projects and only for reimbursement of total project costs incurred up to the following amounts:
PROJECT
Valdez$ 3,013,500
Nome1,000,000
Anchorage (Port of Anchorage expansion)15,000,000
Matanuska-Susitna Borough (deep water port
and road upgrade)10,000,000
Unalaska (LSA small boat harbor)5,000,000
Aleutians East Borough/Akutan
(small boat harbor)4,000,000
Lake and Peninsula Borough/Chignik (dock project)1,000,000
Aleutians East Borough/False Pass (small boat harbor)2,000,000
Fairbanks North Star Borough (Eielson AFB schools,
major maintenance and upgrades)4,500,000
City of Fairbanks (fire headquarters station
replacement)7,500,000
Saxman (public safety building)1,500,000
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 7. Harbor Facility Grant Program. › Sec. 29.60.800. Harbor facility grant fund.

(a) There is established the harbor facility grant fund consisting of money appropriated to the fund. Each fiscal year, the legislature may appropriate money to the fund from the watercraft fuel tax account (AS 43.40.010(f)) and from the fisheries business tax collected under AS 43.75.015 after payments to municipalities are made under AS 43.75.130. The legislature may make other appropriations to the fund. The legislature may appropriate to the fund income earned on money in the fund.
(b) Money appropriated to the harbor facility grant fund may be expended by the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities for harbor facility grants without further appropriation. Money in the fund does not lapse and remains available for expenditure in successive fiscal years.
(c) Each fiscal year, the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shall use an amount equal to at least 50 percent of the balance of the harbor facility grant fund on June 30 of the preceding fiscal year for harbor facility grants.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 7. Harbor Facility Grant Program. › Sec. 29.60.810. Grant applications.

A municipality or regional housing authority that owns a harbor facility may submit to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities an application for a harbor facility grant to be used for construction, expansion, major repair, or major maintenance of a harbor facility. The application must include information about the project requested by the department. For a proposed project to be eligible for a grant, the municipality or regional housing authority must provide evidence acceptable to the department that the
(1) proposed project is a capital improvement project and not part of a preventive maintenance program or regular custodial care program;
(2) municipality or regional housing authority will provide 50 percent of the total project cost as matching funds for the state grant and that money received by the municipality or regional housing authority from the state will not be used for the matching funds except money received under
(A) AS 29.60.850 - 29.60.879 (community assistance program);
(B) AS 29.60.450, AS 43.75.130, and 43.75.137 (shared fisheries business taxes);
(C) AS 43.52.200 - 43.52.295 (excise tax on overnight accommodations on commercial passenger vessels); and
(D) a transfer agreement between the state and a municipality for a sale under AS 35.10.120;
(3) municipality or regional housing authority has secured and will maintain adequate property loss insurance for the replacement cost of the harbor facility or has an adequate program of insurance;
(4) municipality or regional housing authority has a preventive maintenance plan for the harbor facility and will be adequately adhering to the preventive maintenance plan after completion of the proposed project.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 7. Harbor Facility Grant Program. › Sec. 29.60.820. Award of grants.

(a) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may award a harbor facility grant during a fiscal year only for a proposed project eligible under AS 29.60.810 based on a grant application filed during the immediately preceding fiscal year before February 1. The total amount of grant money made available to a municipality or regional housing authority during a fiscal year may not exceed $5,000,000.
(b) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shall award a grant for every proposed project eligible under AS 29.60.810 that is for repair and major maintenance of a harbor facility that was transferred by the state to a municipality or regional housing authority before grants may be made for other proposed harbor facility projects during a fiscal year. However, after the department makes a grant for the repair and major maintenance of a harbor facility under this subsection, no other grants for the repair and major maintenance of that facility may be made during the same or any other fiscal year.
(c) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shall establish priorities for the award of grants for proposed harbor facility projects under (b) of this section and priorities for the award of grants for other proposed harbor facility projects, with new construction projects having the lowest priority. The department shall award grants in the order of priority established. In establishing priorities, the department shall include at least the following, in the order listed:
(1) the extent to which the municipality or regional housing authority can demonstrate that it will have sufficient revenue to operate and maintain the harbor facility in the future without state aid;
(2) public safety and emergency factors;
(3) the amount spent by the municipality or regional housing authority on maintenance of the harbor facility;
(4) other options that would reduce or eliminate the need for the proposed project; and
(5) whether alternative harbor projects would better serve the public interest.
(d) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may suggest modifications to a project request to achieve cost savings or to better serve the public interest and, if the municipality or regional housing authority agrees, award the harbor facility grant for the proposed project as modified.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 8. Community Assistance Program. › Sec. 29.60.850. Community Assistance Fund.

(a) The community assistance fund is established in the general fund for the purpose of making community assistance payments to municipalities, reserves, and communities for any public purpose. The fund consists of appropriations. Income earned on money in the fund may be appropriated to the fund. Money in the fund does not lapse.
(b) Each fiscal year, the legislature may appropriate to the community assistance fund money received by the state during the previous calendar year under AS 43.20.030(c). The amount may not exceed the greater of
(1) $30,000,000; or
(2) the amount that, when added to the fund balance on June 30 of the previous fiscal year, equals $90,000,000.
(c) The balance in the community assistance fund shall be determined on June 30 of each year. If the fund balance is at least $15,000,000, without further appropriation, the department shall distribute one-third of that amount as community assistance payments for the immediately following fiscal year. Otherwise, no payments may be made.
(d) Notwithstanding the guidelines in (b) of this section, the legislature may appropriate any amount to the community assistance fund. Nothing in this section creates a dedicated fund.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 29. Municipal Government › Chapter 60. State Programs › Article 8. Community Assistance Program. › Sec. 29.60.855. Basic community assistance payments.

(a) The basic amount used for determining the basic community assistance payment for a fiscal year is $300,000. However, if the amount available for payments for that fiscal year under AS 29.60.850(c) is less than the amount necessary to make the payments under (b) of this section, the department shall reduce the basic amount pro rata.
(b) Except as provided in (c) of this section, the basic community assistance payment for a fiscal year equals, for each
(1) unified municipality, the sum of the amounts calculated under (2) and (3) of this subsection, rounded to the nearest dollar;
(2) borough, the basic amount, rounded to the nearest dollar;
(3) city and eligible reserve, one-fourth of the basic amount, rounded to the nearest dollar;
(4) eligible community in the unorganized borough, one-twelfth of the basic amount, rounded to the nearest dollar;
(5) eligible community in a unified municipality or borough, one- nineteenth of the basic amount, rounded to the nearest dollar.
(c) The basic community assistance payment amount for a succeeding municipality formed when two or more municipalities merge, consolidate, or unify after January 1, 2002, equals the sum of the amounts each of the former municipalities would receive under (b) of this section calculated as if the merger, consolidation, or unification had not occurred.