00                   HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 27                                                                   
01 Relating to urging the Local Boundary Commission to adopt standards and procedures                                      
02 to enable the commission to return a petition for a local boundary change to the                                        
03 petitioner when the commission determines the petition is substantively deficient or in                                 
04 need of substantial amendment or supplementation.                                                                       
05 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
06       WHEREAS it is in the best interests of the state, petitioners, and affected local                               
07 governments and citizens to resolve proposed local boundary changes expeditiously and in                                
08 accord with art. X, sec. 12, Constitution of the State of Alaska, and implementing statutes and                         
09 regulations; and                                                                                                        
10       WHEREAS, from time to time, petitions for boundary changes filed with the Local                                 
11 Boundary Commission may be substantively deficient or in need of substantial amendment or                               
12 supplementation to conform with constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions; and                               
13       WHEREAS lengthy consideration of deficient petitions by the Local Boundary                                      
14 Commission may result in unnecessary expenditures of money, time, and other resources on                                
15 the part of the state, local governments, and citizens of the state, and may also result in                             

01 needless public discord and strife; and                                                                                 
02       WHEREAS the Local Boundary Commission has discretion under art. X, sec. 12,                                     
03 Constitution of the State of Alaska, to consider any proposed local government boundary                                 
04 change and also has a duty under AS 44.33.812 to establish standards and procedures for                                 
05 matters that come before the commission; and                                                                            
06       WHEREAS the Local Boundary Commission has not established standards and                                         
07 procedures by which the commission may return petitions that are substantively deficient or in                          
08 need of substantial amendment or supplementation to petitioners for amendment or                                        
09 reconsideration by the petitioners;                                                                                     
10       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the Local Boundary                                       
11 Commission to adopt standards and procedures that will enable the commission to return a                                
12 petition to the petitioner in a summary fashion if the commission determines the petition is                            
13 substantively deficient or in need of substantial amendment or supplementation to conform                               
14 with applicable constitutional, statutory, or regulatory provisions.                                                    
15       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to each member of the Local Boundary                                    
16 Commission.