Resolution 12884CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 1 2 8 8 4
ENDORSING THE REAUTHORIZATION OF THE INTERMODAL
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT (ISTEA)
WHEREAS, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)
expires September 30, 1997 and the 105th Congress must reauthorize federal surface
transportation programs; and
WHEREAS, ISTEA made major progress in moving decision making closer to
people affected by transportation spending with almost $500 million in flexible ISTEA funds
allocated to 500 projects throughout the Bay Area; and
WHEREAS, Alameda County jurisdictions have successfully used the increased
flexibility of ISTEA to fund projects totaling $118 million; and
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LIJ WHEREAS, ISTEA marked a shift from the end of the Interstate era to a new era
z emphasizing highway and transit system preservation, increasing the efficiency of existing
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
>. Alameda endorses the following focused principles to guide the reauthorization of ISTEA:
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• Support a continued federal role in transportation and oppose efforts to
repeal or reduce the federal gas tax.
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• Support an increase in authorized spending of federal transportation
revenue.
• Support ISTEA's basic program structure such as the Surface
Transportation Program, the Congestion Mitigatioti and Air Quality
Improvement Program and the Transportation Enhancements Program and
oppose block grants.
• Maximize federal investment by dedicating transportation taxes for
transportation purposes and encouraging greater private sector investment.
Fully fund implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act with
additional federal resources that protect existing transportation funds,
including transit capital and operating funds.
• Support increase in federal funding for transit operations.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be transmitted to the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Alameda County Congestion Management
Agency, representatives in Congress and the United States Secretary of Transportation.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council
of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 3rd
day of June , 1997, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, DeWitt, Kerr, Lucas
and President Appezzato - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 4th day of June , 1997.
Diane lsch, City Clerk
City of Alameda