My dear Mr. Leavitt! You've a serious right hook in your pen. I can't think of any revenue scheme our commissioner concocts that will ever replace "the gushing wealth" outa Prudhoe. I oft promote that every borough is responsible for extracting and monetizing their respective resources. 
The NW Arctic Borough has done admirably in funding their budgets with zinc and lead instead of property taxes on their much poorer citizenry, but I run aground advising the Wade Hampton region. They haven't the means nor organizational structure to extract their minerals below. 
USGS estimates a half trillion dollars in gold, silver and rare earth metals beneath Pebble but they are awash in fear, loathing and fake news campaigns. 
Being a resource extraction colony, Alaska has tremendous mineral wealth for us all to harvest and each borough (and pseudo borough) has the obligation to us all to create companies (native companies too) to hire us, pay us and again flood Juneau with mucho dineros.