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RESOLUTION NO. 79-41
A RESOLUTION BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TUSTIN SUPPORTING THE SAFER OFF-SYSTEM ROADS
PROGRAM AND REQUESTING CONGRESS TO APPROPRIATE
THE REMAINING FUNDS AUTHORIZED FOR THE 1978
FISCAL YEAR AND APPROPRIATE THE FULL AUTHORIZA-
TION FOR THE 1979 FISCAL YEAR.
WHEREAS, Congress in 1976 established the Safer Off-System Roads
(SOS) program and made ~200 million per year available to local agencies
in fiscal years 1976/77 and 1977/78 for projects on local roads which are
not on any Federal-aid highway system with special emohasis to be given
to projects which improve safety; and
WHEREAS, Congress appropriated the full $200 million authorization
for fixcal year 1976/77 but approoriated only $105 milliofi of the $200 million
authorized for fiscal year 1977/78; and'
WHEREAS, we have been informed that all SOS funds available
nationally have been exhausted; and
WHEREAS, Congress has not appropriated SOS funds for fiscal year
1978/79 despite the fact they continued the program through September 1982
under the 1978 Federal-aid Highway Act at a $200 million per year authorized
funding level; and
WHEREAS, the SOS program has been one of the more successful
Federal-aid programs with a minimum of red tape measured by the fact that
in over two years all the funds a~,~ropriated by Congress have already been
obligated'; and
WHEREAS, there is a continuing need for safety in.~.provements and
the SOS program is one of the few Federal programs which nrovides local
governments with Federal financial assistance for s'~reets and roads not
on any Federal-aid syster.~'
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council' of the City
of Tustin that Congress be requested to appropriate the remaining funds
authorized for the 1977/78 fiscal year and approoriate the full authorization
for the 1978/79 fi scal year; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk be directed to for~-~ard
copies of this action to the President of the United States, the Sena'te and
House of Representatives Appropriations Committees, United States Senators
Cranston and Hayakawa, Congresslnan Robert Badham and the Secretary of
Transportation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Tustin City Council, Tustin, California,
this 18th day of June, 1979.
ATteST'
, 1979.
C I TY CLERK ~- ' L]~/~~
STATE OF CALIFOP~NIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF TUSTIN )
RUTH C. POE, City clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the
City of Tustin, California, does hereby certify that the whole number of-.'~
the members of the City Council of the City of Tustin is five; that the
above and foregoing Resolution No.___3~41 ~.. ~wa~ duly and regularly
introduced, passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council
held on the 18th ' ~day of June , 1979, by the following
vote -
AYES-
COUNCII2.IEN: Schuster, Saltarelli, KennedY, welsh
NOES:
COUNCILMEN' None
ABSENT:
COb~.;Cii24EN: Sharp