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RESOLUTION NO. 1175
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, EXPRESSING APPROVAL AND SUPPORT OF HOUSE
BILL 706 RENAMING, RESTRUCTURING AND ALLOCATING GRANT
FUNDS TO THE TEXAS RECREATION AND PARKS FUND FOR LOCAL
USE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
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WHEREAS, heretofore, the Texas Local Parks, Recreation and
Open Space Fund was created by the Texas Legislature for the
purpose of providing grant funds to local governmental units such
as the City of Baytown, Texas, to afford public parks, recreation
facilities and recreational tourism resources in local communities
statewide; and
WHEREAS, the Texas Legislature has reallocated the entirety of
the Fund's cigarette tax revenues from the Fund to the State
General Revenue Fund; and
WHEREAS, State Representative Oliveira has filed, for
consideration and' passage by the Texas Legislature currently in
session and for approval by the Honorable Governor of Texas, House
Bill No. 706, a bill to be entitled An Act Relating to the Creation
of, the Allocation of Revenue to, and the Uses of the Texas
Recreation and Parks Fund, Including the Dedication of Revenue from
the Sale Tax on Sporting Goods; and
WHEREAS, said House Bill No. 706 does not create any new taxes
on the citizens of the State of Texas but reallocates taxes
presently subject to collection under the State Tax Code; and
WHEREAS, the continued and increased availability of grant
funds from the Fund for said intended purposes is critical to the
future of local Texas communities statewide generally and of the
City of Baytown, Texas, specifically; and
WHEREAS, said House Bill No. 706 renames the Texas Local
Parks, Recreation and Open Space Fund to thereafter be the Texas
Recreation and Parks Fund and the same is referred to in this
resolution as "the Fund" ; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas
supports and endorses said House Bill No. 706 in its present
proposed form and desires to express and publish such support and
endorsement; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That the City Council hereby respectfully
requests the Honorable State Legislature of the State of Texas
currently in session to enact into law said House Bill No. 706 in
its present proposed form and respectfully requests the Honorable
Governor of the State of Texas to approve such enactment.
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Section 2: This resolution shall take effect immediately
from and after its passage by the City Council of the City of
Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the City Council of the City
of Baytown this the 25th day of February, 1993 .
BOB Y J. le
R LLE, Mayor
ATTECT:
EILEEN P. HALL,
^City Clerk
ACIO RAMIREZ, . , City Attorney
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