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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1723 ResolutionPASSE by the City Council of the City of Pasco this , 1986 day of • REE C3 L ti -I- I C3 N.1 1723 A RESOLUTION of the City Council urging the Board of Directors of Ben Franklin Transit Authority to seek cost reduction alternatives to reduce transit tax WHEREAS, the citizens advisory committee for public transportation in 1981, in promoting acceptance of a Public Transportation Benefit Authority, indicated in public statements that, if approved by the voters, the sales tax for the transit system would not necessarily be set at the maximum authorization of three-tenths of one cent, and WHEREAS, the citizens on an areawide basis by a majority vote established the Authority, whereupon the Board of Directors of the Authority established the sales tax for transit at the authorized maximum, and WHEREAS, this sales tax, at the maximum rate of three-tenths of one cent, has continued since the date of its inception and said tax has to date produced an aggregate of more than Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000), or an average of Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) per year, and WHEREAS, this total amount of collected sales tax revenue very nearly equals the combined sales tax collections within the Cities of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco, and WHEREAS, the City of Pasco has been and is continuing to undertake drastic cost-cutting measures to reduce and restrain the cost of city government, and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Pasco desires to be assured by the Board of Directors of the Authority that said Board is implementing or soon will be implementing "belt tightening" measures to reduce and restrain transit system expenditures, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO Section 1 The City Council of the City of Pasco requests a report of the Authority's action plan, if any, for implementation of cost-cutting and belt-tightening measures and the priority and dateline attaching to each such objective Section 2 The City Council of the City of Pasco requests the Board of Directors of the Authority to undertake a maximum effort in the soonest possible time to implement a plan to reduce the transit district's sales tax rate