Resolution 2003-32
RESOLUTION NO. 2003-32
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY
URGING INSTITUTION OF PASSENGER RAIL COMPONENTS
WHEREAS, in order to ensure the safety, quality, reliability and efficiency of our
country's vital transportation network and to preserve our national defense, America needs a
balanced, integrated transportation system and the American people need diverse transportation
choices; and
WHEREAS, passenger rail is a critical component of a modern, multi-modal
transportation system, and needs to have financial support, unified policy development and
oversight similar to that afforded to our air, highway and mass transit mo;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Gilroy urges Congress and
the President of the United States to fully institute the following passenger rail components,
which are critical to the future of passenger rail in the United States, within the upcoming
reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) and/or Amtrak:
Reauthorization legislation:
1. Establish a dedicated, multi-year federal capital-funding program for intercity passenger
rail, patterned after the existing federal highway, airport and mass transit programs.
2. Establish, as federal policy, a preserved and improved national passenger rail system - a
nationwide, interconnected passenger rail system that stimulates higher levels of efficiency,
innovation and responsiveness. Direct the Federal Railroad Administration, or another
agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to - with state and local input-
develop, fund and oversee this federal policy.
3. Provide full federal funding of Amtrak to maintain the national network during the period
that the new federal plans and policies are being developed. Then, fully fund
implementation of the national passenger rail system - with its new efficiencies, innovation
and responsiveness - in subsequent years..
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 19th day of May 2003, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: ARELLANO, DILLON, GARTMAN,
MORALES, PINHEIRO, VELASCO, SPRINGER
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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Rh'onda Pellin, City Clerk
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Thomas W. Springer,
RESOLUTION NO. 2003-32
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I, RHONDA PELLIN, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do hereby certify that the attached
Resolution No. 2003-32 is an original resolution, duly adopted by the Council ofthe City of
Gilroy at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 19th day of May, 2003, at which meeting a
quorum was present.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Official Seal of
the City of Gilroy this 23rd day of May, 2003,
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