HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 2486-1957RESOLUTION NO. 2486
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH
SAN FRANCISCO URGING THE CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE
TO ENACT LEGISLATION REDUCING OR REMOVING CERTAIN
INEQUITABLE HIGHWAY AND SALES TAXES PHESENTLY ASSESSED
URBAN PASSENGER BUS OPERATIONS
WHEREAS, rising costs of operation and resultant higher fares, together with
diversion of patronage to the private automobile, have placed continued'and necessary
urban public transit service to our comunity in jeopardy, and
WHEREAS, although urban transit makes but little use of the costly improvements
to the State highway and freeway system, it is heavily taxed for such improvements, and
WHEREAS, but a small proportion of 'such highway taxes is returned to the cities
for maintenance of roadways over which such urban transit vehicles mainly operate, and
WHEREAS, urban bus operation, although in ~any cases on the brink of failure,
is in fact subsidizing the competition of the private auto~obile, by payment of taxes
to build State highways it seldom useS, and
WHEREAS, unless .substantial relief from such State taxes is afforded private
bus operations, municipalities are faced with payment of direct subsidy or assu~ing full
operation themselves, to assure continuance of transit service, and
WHEREAS, several Bills to correct these tax inequities have been introduced in
the present State Legislature,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of South San
Francisco hereby urges its representatives in the California State Legislature, to enact
into law, legislation which would
First, reduce Vehicle Weight Fees to that previously granted as an exception to
Urban Transit Vehicles as now contained in S. B. 1352, and
Second, remove existing discriminatory sales tax on Diesel Fuel (not applicable
to gasoline) used for highway purposes, as now contained in A. B. 1470, and
Third, refund that portion of use fuel and motor vehicle fuel taxes paid by
urban transit for use on highways other than those constructed and maintained toll-free by
the State of California, when greater than one half of its fixed route operations, as now
contained in A. B. 3648 and A. B. 3651, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be transmitted to its
representatives in the State Legislature, and'the chairmen of the Senate Transportation
Cosmittee, the Senate Revenue and Taxation Comittee, the Assembly Transportation and
Commerce Co~mittee, and the Assembly Reveaue and Taxation Cosmittee.
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was regularly introduced and
adopted by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco at a regular
meeting held on the 20th day of May, 1957, by the following vote:
AYES,
Councilmen G. J. Rozzi, Andrew Rocca, Eailio Cortesi, Francis Lucchio
and Leo J. Ryan
NOES, None
ABSENT, None
City Clerk
BY:
~eputy city clerk