CC RES 1974-056 RESOLUTION NO. 74-56
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES OPPOSING
A PROPOSAL TO ASSIGN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
SECOND PRIORITY FOR FEDERAL MASS
TRANSIT FUNDING.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES HEREBY
RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
II/ WHEREAS, the House of Representatives Public Works
Committee is drafting a bill, in lieu of the President' s
recently Proposed Unified Transportation Assistance Plan,
which would authorize funds for public transportation in
the amount of approximately Twenty Billion Dollars; and
WHEREAS, under the aforesaid bill it is proposed
that funds for construction and acquisition of capital facili-
ties will be disbursed on a Federal 75 percent-local 25 per-
cent formula and that several categories of funds be
established, viz. Fund A is slated to contain 60 percent
of total authorized dollars; Funds B and C, 30 percent; and
Fund, the remainder; and
WHEREAS, Fund A is contemplated to be reserved for
six cities in the Country which have rapid transit systems
operating now, namely, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Boston, and Cleveland, plus three additional
cities; Atlanta, Baltimore and Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, Los Angeles must be placed in the Fund A
category in order to provide funding for a modern transpor-
tation system in view of the urgent and pervasive problems
of air pollution and inadequate public transportation; and it
would be contrary to the public interest for Los Angeles to
be relegated to the Fund B category,
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of
Rancho Palos Verdes resolves as follows:
Section 1. The City Council of the City of Rancho
Palos Verdes opposes the House of Representatives Public Works
Committee plan to relegate Los Angeles County to a secondary
priority for mass transit funding in view of the severe and urgent
need for an adequate public transportation system in Los Angeles
County.
Section 2 . The City Clerk is directed to send a copy
of this resolution to each member of the Los Angeles County
Congressional Delegation, United States Senators Cranston and
Tunney and the President' s Office.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 16th day of July , 1974 .
ATTEST: " ' "R
CITY CLE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and
correct copy of a resolution passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes as a regular meeting
thereof held on the 16th day of July , 1974 .
CITY CLERK pow