HomeMy WebLinkAbout19019 - RESOLUTIONS - 4/16/1997 RESOLUTION NO. 19019
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM
SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING SB 476
(ROSENTHAQ: AIR POLLUTION: TECHNOLOGY
ADVANCEMENT.
' WHEREAS in 1988, the State Legislature originally authorized the adoption of a $1 .00
surcharge on vehicle registrations within the South Coast Air Quality Management District to
fund advanced technology demonstration projects to reduce air pollution; and
WHEREAS this surcharge has provided funding for approximately 250 new technology projects
to reduce air emissions, with 87 of these projects currently underway; and
WHEREAS the existence of this program has resulted in a vibrant public/private partnership
engaged in developing new technologies to combat air pollution, whereby every dollar that has
been invested from the vehicle surcharge has been matched by another four dollars invested
by private industry, universities, and other public agencies; and
WHEREAS the local Southern California economy has benefited from a total $234 million in
public/private investments in the Advanced Technology Program since 1989; and
WHEREAS 40 percent of the emission reductions needed in the South Coast District to meet
federal clean air standards by 2010 rely upon advanced technologies which do not exist
today; and
WHEREAS a variety of projects funded by this program have resulted in real emission
' reductions through the introduction of zero-emitting power plants and the retrofitting of public
transit buses to alternative fuels; and
WHEREAS the existing program has provided necessary research and development resources
to technologies that might not have become commercially available will-lout such investment;
and
WHEREAS the successful commercialization of technologies essential to achieving air quality
in the South Coast are dependent on the continuation of the Advanced Technology Program;
and
WHEREAS Senate Bill 476, authored by State Senator Herschel Rosenthal, and introduced in
the 1997 Session of the California Legislature, would continue the Advanced Technology
Program until 2009, assuring that it will be an integral program to the regional efforts to
achieve federal air quality standards by 2010,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs that the
City of Palm Springs supports SB 476 by Senator Rosenthal, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution communicating the City's support
for SB 476 be sent to Senator Rosenthal.
ADOPTED this 16th day of April 1997.
AYES: Members Barnes, Hodges, Oden, Spurgin & Mayor Kleindienst
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST: C TY 0 PALM 5P N CALIFORNIA
(City Clerk City lager f j
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