Resolution 257-1987
Commissioner Gene Lytton
RESOLUTION NO. 257 -1987
WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States is proposing to
increase motor fuel taxes for the purpose of reducing the federal
deficit, and
WHEREAS, motor fuel taxes are, in fact, user fees which
should be dedicated to the maintenance and expansion of the
public infrastructure from the use of which such revenues are
derived, and
WHEREAS, the rebuilding of public infrastructure is of
paramount importance to continued economic and social develop-
ment, and
WHEREAS, Florida's high growth rate will require the state
and local governments to use additional motor fuel tax revenue to
fund $52 billion of infrastructure projects during the next ten
years, and
WHEREAS, additional federal motor fuel taxes would effec-
tively preempt a desperately needed source of revenue for
infrastructure within Florida, and
WHEREAS, tourism, the largest industry in Monroe County,
Florida, would be severely and unfairly impacted by additional
federal motor fuel taxes; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that the Congress of the United States
develop alternative policies to reduce the federal deficit in
lieu of an increase in the federal tax on motor fuels.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held
on the 7th day of July, A.D. 1987.
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Attest :;DANNY L. KOLHAGE, Clerk
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