Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2012-7768

• Record #: O2012-7768
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 10/31/2012
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Budget and Government Operations
• Final action: 11/8/2012
• Title: Intergovernmental agreement with Regional Transportation Authority and Chicago Transit Authority for allocation of Motor Fuel Tax funds for operational expenses for Year 2013
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: AGREEMENTS - Intergovernmental, FINANCE FUNDS - Motor Fuel Tax - 2013

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
11/8/2012	39059	City Council	Passed	Pass
11/7/2012		Committee on Budget and Government Operations	Recommended to Pass	Pass
10/31/2012	36145	City Council	Referred

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR


October 31, 2012









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


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Budget Director, I transmit herewith an ordinance addressing Motor Fuel Taxes.

Your favorable consideration of this ordinance 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; and


WHEREAS, the last such Ordinance authorizing the City's contribution was passed on November 09, 2011 (Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council, Pages 12500-12503); 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, 2013 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, 2013 from that part of the Motor Fuel Tax Fluids which have been or may be allocated to the City of Chicago.


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