A Bill Relating to the Establishment
Of an Organized Borough System
This is the third of four articles
written on the Borough Question,
and presents an ouline of a bill
on Organized Boroughs.
Sec. 1. Gives the intent of the
act, that of providing machinery
for further organization of bor
oughs, providing classifications,
and setting forth regulations that
govern such acts.
Sec. 2. Provides for two classifi
cations of Organized Boroughs
namely, General Law Boroughs
and Home Rule Charter Boroughs.
(1> General Law Boroughs shall
be defined as those organized bor
oughs which shall organize and
function as intermediate local
unitf of government under regu
lations and procedures granted to
it by the Legislature of the State
of Alaska.
(21 Home Rule Boroughs shall
be defined as those organized
boroughs which shall organize
and function as a intermediate
units of government under regu
regulations and procedures con
tained in its Home Rule Charter
and such other powers as not
specifically denied to it.
Sec. 3. Prescribes general func
tions relating to all organized
boroughs, requiring an assembly
as the governing body, and re
charter commission to draw up a
charter.
Sec. 4. Initiative petition of 200
qualified voters required, 100
from within first class cities in
volved, 100 from areas outside
of first class cities.
(11 Outlines form and qualifi
cation of petition including map
of area.
(2) Petitions to be filed with the
Local Affairs Agency.
(3) Hearings to be held by the
Local Boundary Commission.
(4) Election by referendum re
quired under Secretary of State.
Sec. 5. Sets forth the member
ship and apportionment on the
Assembly and/or the Charter
Commission.
(11 Not less than seven mem
bers nor more than 25 permitted
on the assembly.
(2) Not less than seven mem
bers nor more than 25 permitted
on Charter Commission .
(31 Membership based on de
cennial census figures and ap
portioned between cities and
areas outside of cities.
Sec. 6. Provides for organiza
tion and function of assembly,
requires one of the members be
elected president.
(11 Prescribes qualifications of
members from inside cities and
from outside cities.
(al Membership from cities
come from city councils.
(b) Membership from outside
cities elected at large from out
side the cities.
(2) Assembly term is three
years to be determined by lot
after the first election with Va
serving one year.
(31 Assembly to provide man
agement, organization and admin
istration of borough.
Sec. 7. Provides for organiza
tion and function of Charter Com
mission, requires one of the mem
bers to be elected chairman.
(11 Prescribes qualifications of
members from inside and outside
of cities.
(a) Membership from cities to
be elected at large within the
cities.
(b) Membership from outside
cities to be elected at large out
side of cities.
(2) Charter Commission to
serve for three years until Char
ter has been adopted.
(31 The Charter Commission
shall be charged with drafting a
Home Rule Charter, holding such
hearings or employing advisory or
secretarial help as required.
(4) Until such time as the Home
Rule Charter is approved the bor
ough will function as a General
Law Borough.
(5) If charter has not been ap
proved within three years, Charter
Commission abolished and bor
ough functions as General Law
Borough.
(6) Requires referendum elec
tion on the adpotion of the Char
ter.
Sec. 8. Requires a Board of
Education be established to de
termine policy and standards of
education. Assembly to provide
fiscal control over budget.
Sec. 9. Outlines powers of Or
ganized Boroughs such as con
tracts, assessment, planning, zon
ing, taxation, etc.
Sec. 10. Provides for integra
ting service areas such as school
districts, public utility districts,
etc.
Sec. 11. Gives the cities control
over functions purely city in na
ture and the borough control
where city and outlying functions
overlap.
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WhiAe Alice Technicians
SEATTLE OP) — The Interna
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers was certified Thursday
as a bargaining agent for some 1G0
technicians manning 30 stations
of the White Alice Communica
tios Network in Alaska.
The certification was issued by
the National Labor Relations Board
regional office after tabulation of
the vote in a recent bargaining
election.
Thomas P. Graham Jr., region
al NLRB director, said there were
96 ballots for the IBEW, 60 for
no union and one was void.
IBEW petitioned last fall for
an NLRB election on the right
to represent the technicians, em
ployed by the Radio Corporation
of America at the far-flug White
Alice sites.
Ballots were sent out by the
NLRB Dec. 6 and had to be in by
mail here Jan. 10.
Raw Fish Tax For 1960
Estimated at $1,746,343
JUNEAU — Alaska’s share
of the 1960 salmon pack, through
the Raw Fish Tax, will amount
to approximately $1,746,343, the
State Department of Revenue esti
mated today.
The exact figure won’t be
known until late March or early
April, when all raw fish taxes
will have been collected.
The estimate would place the
year 1960 in seventh place in the
amount or raw fish taxes collected
by the state annually during the
10 years starting in 1951.
The department said the esti
mate was made by using the 1959
price schedule and the prelimin
ary pack figures for I960. It ap
pears, the department said, that
the average wholesale price for
1960, on which the tax is based,
will be about the same as the 1959
figure, approximately $23 a case.
FIRE FATAL TO
FORMER KETCHIKAN WOMAN
VANCOUVER, B. C. UP) — A
44-year-old woman from Alaska
died huddled beside her bed when
fire swept through her basement
suite here Monday.
Mrs. Hazel Knott, who had
rented the suite only three weeks
ago, died when a fire started
apparently near the basement
furnace.
A first-floor tenant, Mrs. On
nelea Mclnnis, ran to safety and
turned in the alarm when she
smelled smoke. Other tenants
were not at home at the time.
Police say Mrs. Knott former
ly lived in Ketchikan.
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