HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION NO. 5180 City of Fairfax
PO. BOX 93
FAIRFAX, IOWA 52228
SOLUTION # 5180
WANAS, _in 1'972 Congress enacted P.L. 92-512, which
established the General Revenue Sharing Pro0ram to assist
state and local units of government* and
WR REAS, this program is perhaps the most efficient
and effective pro pm ever establiabed by the federal r overu-
we nt• and
YbEREAS, without such a pro rnm local government in
lade would have to increase property.taxes in order to main-
tain the current 1: el of services J" their communitieso and
41 RAS, the continued str41 j . of local government and
effectivesess of th+e "federal system are dependent upon the
programs grant inu.at ion, and
WHERSAS, the*- Cener l Revenue Sharing Prograi scheduled to
expire Sept0gber304 1900 will be tine focus of cotsiderabl.e
attention by members of Congress, and
&RREA , the, support of such a program reinforces your
commitment t? 'focal government problems in Iowa,
NOW Th RE FORE BE IT j830L.'ADO' that the City of Fairfax
Iowa meeting this 1st day of May, 1900 does 'her'eby strongly
urge you to resiorany attempts to permit the GeneraIFRwenue
Sharing. Program to expire and instead asks you to take whatever
actipn is necessary toward gaining the reenactment of the
program*
RILL CALL V(IT Ronald Straliman, .Russell. C€a.rvyr, Kenneth Selzer,
Harold Shakespeare, Vernon Oerveny
SIc= T91S tat day of May, 19RO
James Stal man, Mayor
ATTEST
Virginia Soukup, City Clerk