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RESOLUTION NO. 57-286 REQUESTING THE CONGRESS oF THE UNITED STATES TO ADOPT LEGISLATION PROVIDING FOR MORE E~ITABLE APPRGPRIATION OF FUNDS TO BE EXPENDED UNDER THE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF INTERSTATE AND DEFENSE HIGHWAYS WHEREAS, as presently operated l~der the Federal Highway Act of 1956, the funds for construction of the National System of Inter- state and Defense Highways is .inequitable, unreal istic and unjust, in that the ~tate of California produces from gas tax payments approx- imately 10% of all monies distributed under said Act but receives by expenditure within the State boundaries only 5.7% of all such monies; and WHEREAS, the highway problems in the State of California are as complex, and the highways as important to the National System as defense highways, as the highways of m~y State in this Union, and the rapid population increase makes the problem in said State constantly more acute; NOW, ~EHEFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Santa Aha hereby petitions Congress to adopt at its next regular session the necessary concurrent Resolution to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to appropriate funds among the several states for con- struction and completion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways in a ratio which the estimated cost of completing the system in each State bears to the sum of the estimated cost of completing the system in all of the states, as provided in Subsection (d) of Section 108 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, and that the Clenk is hereby directed to send copies of this Resolution to our Senators and Congressmen for their information. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Citv Council of theoC~y of Santa Aha at its ~egular meeting held on the 18th day of Nov~mb_r , ~957~ ATTEST: ~/ · CLERK OF THE COUNCIL