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#21-14 - Waiving 2021 Annual Fishing Vessel Moorage Fees for Active Commercial Fishing Vessels
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SUBMITTED BY: Jeremy Talbott, Ports & Harbors Director
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Approve Resolution 21-14
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SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Attached is a resolution for consideration by the Valdez City Council. This resolution entails a credit/waiver of annual moorage fees for our local commercial fishing vessel owners.
This economic mitigation tactic originated during the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic event in the spring of 2020 from the Economic Recovery Taskforce. The Economic Recovery Taskforce initially discussed, and made a recommendation to the Valdez City Council to waive all 2020 Port and Harbor moorage fees and leases.
This mitigation tactic was openly discussed at several Economic Recovery Taskforce meetings, and was presented to the Valdez City Council during a work session on June 11th 2020. The original idea of a full Port & Harbor fee waiver/credit did not gain council support during the discussion at this work session. However, council members present were potentially supportive of a more narrow scope to include local commercial businesses that were claiming a hardship due to the pandemic crisis.
The Economic Recovery Taskforce continued to narrow the scope during their taskforce level meetings and brought a new resolution specifically targeting "affected Port & Harbor commercial businesses" to the Valdez City Council on August 19th 2020.
Resolution #20-45, Waiving Fees for 2020 Commercial Moorage and Airport Lease Payments for commercial businesses claiming economic hardship related to the COVID 19 Pandemic passed with a 5-1 vote.
During the discussion of Resolution #20-45 a "motion to amend" the resolution, with an end date of August 31st 2020 for applications was proposed/moved by council member Devens and seconded by council member Ruff. ...
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