ABANDONMENT: Dunn Road ABSTRACTS: GENERAL FUND ...

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TOWN OF BOSTON
RESOLUTION 1993 - 6
At a Regular Meeting of the Town Board of the Town of
Boston, Erie County, New York held at the Boston Town Hall, 8500
Boston State Road, Boston, New York, on the 17th day of February
1992 at 7:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Saving Time,
there were
PRESENT:
ABSENT:
Richard L. Kennedy
Milton I. Wittmeyer
Don A. Wohlhueter
Hark W. Flowers
David G. Zimmerman
Supervisor
Councilman
Councilman
Councilman
CounciIman
Supervisor Kennedy jpresented the following
resolution and moved its adoption:
WHEREAS, the preservation of the state aid for local
highways is essential towards improving the safety, efficiency
and structural quality of streets, highway resurfacing and
bridge work at the local level, and
WHEREAS, in 1991, Governor Cuomo signed into law
legislation creating a Dedicated Highway and Bridge Trust Fund,
yet at this time there still is not any dedicated source of
revenue for the trust fund, and
WHEREAS, until recent years local governments relied
on state aid revenue sharing to fund their road and bridge
infrastructure and already state aid has been reduced to only
15 - 20% of local government highway budgets, and
WHEREAS, local governments cannot bear
reductions in state aid, and
further
WHEREAS, New York State has a duty to support local
governments in their efforts to stabilize the regressive
property taxes on which we depend and any further reduction or
elimination of state aid for highway and bridges would seriously
affect municipal road construction and maintenance, and
WHEREAS, towns already receive a disproportionate
share of highway funds according to the Erie County Town Highway
Superintendents' Association as follows: the County of Erie
receives $3,900 per mile, cities receive $2,600 per mile,
villages receive $1,800 per mile and TOWNS ONLY RECEIVE $780 PER
MILE, and
WHEREAS, New York State Government has a duty to
establish a source of revenue for this Dedicated Highway and
Bridge Trust Fund without keeping local governments and their
constituents in a constant state of uncertainty with regard to
their financial planning and budgeting;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Town Board of the
Town of Boston commends the creation of this Dedicated Highway
and Bridge Trust Fund to assist local municipal highway
infrastructure work, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the
Town of Boston urges the New York State Governor, Legislature
and Senate to complete the Dedicated Highway and Bridge Trust
Fund by establishing a dedicated source of revenue, and
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