Legislature(1997 - 1998)
03/07/1997 01:30 PM Senate CRA
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SB 9 CAP PROJ MATCHING GRANT FOR INDIAN RESERV CHAIRMAN MACKIE stated he sponsored the same legislation last year, and it passed the House but failed to come up for a vote in the Senate during the final days of the session. Chairman Mackie explained that when the capital matching program was put into place, it had vague language about the Metlakatla Indian Community. The community participated in the program for a number of years, but two years ago when Senator Halford was chairing the Finance Committee, he discovered that the statute definition was not written specific enough to include the Metlakatla Indian Community, so he suggested that it be fixed. SB 9 rectifies the problem by specifically removing Metlakatla from the Unincorporated Capital Matching Grant Program and specifically includes Metlakatla in the statute provisions for the Municipal Capital Matching Grant Program. Chairman Mackie pointed out that language in Section 1 provides that Metlakatla is the only entity in the state that now, or in the future, could qualify under the statute definition. Number 275 SENATOR PHILLIPS asked if the people of the Metlakatla community have to vote on how the grant money is expended. CHAIRMAN MACKIE confirmed that they do. The money goes to the Metlakatla Indian Community Council and they determine how the money will be spent. There being no further testimony on SB 9, CHAIRMAN MACKIE asked for the pleasure of the committee. SENATOR WILKEN moved that SB 9 and the accompanying fiscal notes be passed out of committee with individual recommendations. Hearing no objection, it was so ordered.
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