Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2013-9077

• Record #: O2013-9077
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 11/13/2013
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Budget and Government Operations
• Final action: 11/20/2013
• Title: Intergovernmental agreement with Chicago Transit Authority and Cook County for allocation of Motor Fuel Tax funds for operational expenses for Year 2014
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: AGREEMENTS - Intergovernmental, - FINANCE FUNDS - Motor Fuel Tax

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
11/20/2013	66041	City Council	Passed	Pass
11/18/2013		Committee on Budget and Government Operations	Recommended to Pass	Pass
11/13/2013	63132	City Council	Referred

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR


November 13,2013










TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Budget Director, I transmit herewith the motor fuel ordinance and associated ordinance authorizing an intergovernmental agreement with the Chicago Transit Authority for fiscal year 2014.

Your favorable consideration of these ordinances will be appreciated.

Mayor

Very truly yours,
ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the law of the State of Illinois establishing the Regional Transportation Authority (the "RTA") (70 ILCS 3615/1,01, et seq., ) provides in Section 4.10 that the RTA shall not for any fiscal year of the RTA release to the Chicago Transit Authority (the "CTA") any funds except for the proceeds of taxes imposed by the RTA under Section 4.03 and 4.03.1 which are allocated to the CTA under Section 4.10(d) unless a unit or units of local government in Cook County (other than the CTA) enters or enter into an agreement with the CTA to make a monetary contribution for such year of at least Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) for public transportation; and
WHEREAS, the CTA will, for the foreseeable future, require such financial grants from the RTA in order to meets it operation expenses; and
WHEREAS, every year since the inception of the RTA, the City of Chicago has contributed Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) and the County of Cook has contributed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) for such purpose; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO: SECTION 1. There is hereby allocated for the fiscal year of the RTA ending December 31, 2014 the sum of Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) for use by the CTA as a matching grant from the City of Chicago to be paid prior to December 31, 2014 from that part of the Motor Fuel Tax Funds which have been or may be allocated to the City of Chicago.
SECTION 2. The sum of Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) hereby...