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

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