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A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF GENERAL REVENUE SHARING
WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States saw fit to pass into law
the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 (General Revenue Sharing)
in order to provide additional funds to general purpose units of governments
of all sizes, and
WHEREAS, state, county and local governments, including ours, have
been recipients of these funds, and
WHEREAS, we have used the funds received to benefit the residents
of our community through the provisions of additional services, the construc-
tion of public facilit;es and utilities and the purchase of equipment that otherwise
would not have been possible without a significant tax increase or increase in
our level of bonded indebtedness, and
WHEREAS, it would not be possible for our community to continue to
offer the level of services now being provided nor continue the community-
development efforts we have begun without the funds we have received by
virtue of the General Revenue Sharing, and
VSTHEREAS, Utah statutes provide that cities and towns must set the
budgets, hold public hearings on the same, and adopt the budget setting forth
the source of their expected revenues and the purposes for which they will be
spent prior to July 1 of the fiscal year for which the adopted budget is intended, and
WHEREAS, Utah statutes also require that cities and towns set the tax levy
through which a major portion of their municipal government's general fund
revenues are derived on or before the second Monday of August in the year
preceding the year in which the revenues are received, and
WHEREAS, the General Revenue Sharing Act will expire on December 21,
1.9I6, if the Congress of tthe United dates does iiciL a.ke ii-ni ediate action to :re-
enact the existing law and fund it at its present level if not higher, and because local
governments such as ours cannot properly plan for the continuation of programs
already begun without severe adjustment both in terms of final policies and
numbers of personnel employed. unless revenue sharing is re-enacted.
We, the governing body of Moab City ,therefore :
RESOLVE to actively work for and support the efforts of those local,
state and national organizations who desire to see the General Revenue Sharing
Act of 1972 re-enacted in its existing form using the existing formula basis
for distribution of funds to local governments,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we, the elected governing body of Moab
City go on record this 17th day of February , 1976, as urging the
members of Utah's Congressional Delegation , to wit, Congressmen K.
Gunn McKay, Allan Howe, and Senators Edward (Ted) Moss and E. J. (Jake)
Garn, to seek and work for passage of a bill re-enacting the General Revenue
Sharing Act of 1972, as soon as possible and preferably prior to March 1, 1976.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we, the elected governing body of
will make our desires and needs known to the residents of our com-
munity and to the public at large by widely circulating this document and by
taking whatever other action is deemed necessary and/or desirable.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we, the elected governing body of
will send certified copies of this Resolution to the members of t1E
Utah Congressional Delegation at their respective offices in Washington, D. C.
Passed this 17th day of February , 197 6.
(Mayor/Town President)
City C uncilman/Tn Trustee
ATTEST
(SEAL)
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City Recorde /Town Clerk