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INTRODUCED BY ALDERMAN
Donaldson
RESOLUTION NO. 357
SERIES OF 1974
WHEREAS, the City of Wheat Ridge has been annually receiving
approximately $128,000 of vitally needed fiscal assistance through
the allocation of federal dollars under the General Revenue Sharing
Program; and
WHEREAS, these Revenue Sharing dollars are received directly
from the federal government with a minimum of federal bureaucratic
redtape which enables the City of Wheat Ridge to use its Revenue
Sharing funds to meet the locally determined priority needs of the
community in the most efficient manner; and
WHEREAS, the citizens of Wheat Ridge view their locally elected
officials as being accountable for the expenditure of Revenue Sharing
dollars and such information is regularly published in a local news-
paper for the information of all citizens; and
WHEREAS, since the commencement of General Revenue Sharing in
1972, the City of Wheat Ridge has appropriated $495,705 of Revenue
Sharing dollars as follows:
$ 11,083
$ 1,872
$172,453
$ 5,090
$ 25,000
$119,000
$ 21,171
$ 50,035
$ 80,000
Civil Defense Equipment
Mass Transit Subsidy Payments
Reconstruction and overlay of West 38th Avenue
from Pierce Street to Lee Street
Overlay Harlan Street in cooperation with
Jefferson County
Overlay West 32nd Avenue in cooperation with
City of Lakewood
Purchase of new Police Building at 44th and Owens
General street maintenance materials
Pedestrian Pathway Materials
Street Maintenance Equipment
WHEREAS, the citizens of Wheat Ridge are being severely affected
by the spiraling and unprecedented rate of inflation which is stripping
them of their hard-earned income; and
WHEREAS, the current inflationary rate of 12% is also undermining
the ability of City government to provide essential services to the
Community within reasonable and acceptable levels of local taxation;
and
WHEREAS, the General Revenue Sharing Program is providing essential
fiscal relief to the devastating impact of inflation; and
WHEREAS, the General Revenue Sharing Program, which began in 1972,
will terminate in 1975 unless the 94th Congress, which was elected
this November and will convene in January of 1975, authorizes an
extension of the General Revenue Sharing Program; and
WHEREAS, the termination of the General Revenue Sharing Program
will place the City of Wheat Ridge in the untenable position of either
having to decrease essential community services by 5% or raising prop-
erty taxes by 40%;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Wheat Ridge,
speaking through its elected Council and Mayor, unanimously endorses
the continuation of the General Revenue Sharing Program and calls upon
the 94th Congress to reenact the General Revenue Sharing Program in
order to insure that vitally needed federal assistance will be provided
to the City of Wheat Ridge; without any additional restrictions.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT a copy of this Resolution be forwarded
to the following:
The Honorable Floyd K, Haskell, U.S. Senator;
The Honorable Gary M, Hart, Senator-Elect;
The Honorable Timothy Wirth, Congressman-Elect.
DONE AND RESOLVED by a vote of
this 21st day of November
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