MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH v. HAMMOND

No. S-825.

726 P.2d 166 (1986)

MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH, Municipality of Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula Borough, and Fairbanks North Star Borough, and Robert J. Lemoine, Appellants, v. Jay S. HAMMOND, Governor, Lee McAnerney, Commissioner, Department of Community and Regional Affairs, State of Alaska, and North Slope Borough, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Klinkner, Wohlforth and Flint, Anchorage, and Michael Gatti, Acting Borough Atty., Palmer, for appellant Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

Randall W. Westbrook, Davies, Westbrook & Purcell, Wasilla, for appellant LeMoine.

Susan D. Cox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellees Jay S. Hammond, Governor, Lee McAnerney, Com'r, Dept. of Community and Regional Affairs and State.

Avrum M. Gross, Susan A. Burke, Gross & Burke, Juneau, for appellee North Slope Borough.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

This case centers around the Department of Community and Regional Affairs' determination of the "population" of municipalities for state revenue-sharing and tax-limitation purposes. Specifically at issue is the department's method of counting remote site workers on the North Slope. These workers present a problem because of their unique working situation. Typical work schedules may be one week on, one week off; two on, one off; or...

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