The economy within the proposed expanded boundaries of the city must include the human and financial resources necessary to provide essential municipal services on an efficient, cost-effective level. In this regard, the commission may consider relevant factors, including the
(1) reasonably anticipated functions of the city in the territory being annexed;(2) reasonably anticipated new expenses of the city that would result from annexation;(3) actual income and the reasonably anticipated ability to generate and collect local revenue and income from the territory;(4) feasibility and plausibility of those aspects of the city's anticipated operating and capital budgets that would be affected by the annexation through the period extending one full fiscal year beyond the reasonably anticipated date for completion of the transition set out in 3 AAC 110.900;(5) economic base of the territory within the city after annexation;(6) valuations of taxable property in the territory proposed for annexation;(7) land use in the territory proposed for annexation;(8) existing and reasonably anticipated industrial, commercial, and resource development in the territory proposed for annexation;(9) personal income of residents in the territory and in the city; and(10) need for and availability of employable skilled and unskilled persons to serve the city government as a result of annexation.Eff. 7/31/92, Register 123; am 5/19/2002, Register 162; am 1/9/2008, Register 185Authority: Art. X, sec. 1,
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