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10. WHEREAS, many recent studies have shown that transporting goods by rail • <br />is more energy efficient than transporting goods by truck, and creates fewer air quality- <br />eroding carbon emissions, and <br />11. WHEREAS, both Austin and San Antonio are in danger of becoming named <br />as `non-attainment' areas under the Federal air quality standards, and <br />12. WHEREAS, both Austin and San Antonio have endorsed local policies <br />directed at reducing carbon emissions related to both air quality and global warning, and <br />13. WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Texas has passed and the public <br />has approved by election the constitutional amendment creating the Texas Rail <br />Relocation and Improvement Fund, and <br />14. WHEREAS, $200 million appropriated annually to the Texas Rail Relocation <br />and Improvement Fund could be used to create a total bonded funding capacity for the <br />Fund of at least $2 billion over the next decade, and <br />15. WHEREAS, the annual appropriation to the Texas Rail Relocation and <br />Improvement Fund should come from a source other than Fund 6 (gas tax revenues <br />constitutionally dedicated to highways), and <br />16. WHEREAS, the Texas Rail Relocation and Improvement Fund could be used • <br />throughout the State to relieve traffic congestion, improve freight movement mobility, <br />remove hazardous materials from the heavily-populated areas of urban Texas, and thus <br />improve the economy and quality of life in Texas, now be it therefore <br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN <br />MARCOS, TEXAS: <br />PART 1. The City of San Marcos expresses its support for use of the Texas Rail <br />Relocation and Improvement Fund. <br />PART 2. The City of San Marcos respectfully requests that the Austin-San <br />Antonio Commuter Rail District, State Legislature and the Governor of Texas <br />appropriate $200 million annually to the Texas Rail Relocation and Improvement Fund <br />during the 2009 regular session and subsequent sessions of the Texas Legislature. <br />PART 3. The City Clerk is directed to forward a copy of this Resolution to the <br />Austin-San Antonio Intermunicipal Commuter Rail District, and to the following state <br />officials: Governor Rick Perry, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, House Speaker Tom <br />Craddick, Senator Jeff Wentworth, and Representative Patrick Rose. <br />PART 4. This Resolution is in full force and effect immediately upon its passage. <br />0