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Leesburg,
Virginia
RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION:
PRESENTED November 26, 1996
96-262 ADOPTED November 26, 1996
COMMENTING ON THE TCC WHITE PAPER OF SEPTEMBER 20, 1996
transportation organizations in Northern Virginia.
PASSED this 26th day of November, 1996.
ATI~EST:
Clerk of Council
R:TCC
Jan)ks E. Clem, Mayor
Town of Leesburg
WHEREAS, the Transportation Coordinating Council (TCC) was asked by the General
Assembly to study regional transportation authorities in Northern Virginia; and
WHEREAS, the TCC produced a white paper on September 20, 1996, that discusses the
possibility of combining transportation organizations for the region; and
WHEREAS, the white paper offers recommendations that threaten the process that has been
used for allocating transportation funds for the past seven years; and
WHEREAS, the current process has generated over $6 million in regional and fuel tax funds
for necessary transportation infrastructure in Leesburg; and
WHEREAS, Leesburg faces the immediate need for tens of millions of dollars of
transportation infrastructure to accommodate continuing growth and ensure the community's
prosperity; and
WHEREAS, TCC Chairman Robert T. Lee recommends in his October 30, 1996,
correspondence that the TCC not only remain intact for the foreseeable future but be enhanced in
several areas.
THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as follows:
The Town Council hereby endorses the proposal by TCC Chairman Robert T. Lee to
enhance the TCC and rejects the recommendation to continue studying the combination of