R2012-124 OPPOSING REDUCTION OF STATE COLLECTED REVENUES DUE MUNICIPALITIES

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RESOLUTION NO. R2012- 124 CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS RESOLUTION OPPOSING REDUCTION OF STATE COLLECTED REVENUES DUE MUNICIPALITIES WHEREAS, all Illinois municipalities provide direct frontline services to their citizens; and WHEREAS, these services have an immediate and fundamental reality to those citizens who depend on local police and fire protection, water and sewer service, snow removal, roads and traffic safety, and WHEREAS, local citizens pay income taxes to the State for both the State budget and local municipal budgets and the revenue is collected by the State; and WHEREAS, since the inception of the State income tax in 1969, municipalities have received, relied upon and provided services with those revenues to their local taxpaying citizens; and WHEREAS, the fiscal reality is that municipalities have already experienced less income tax revenues from the State; and WHEREAS, the recent income tax increase provided new revenues all of which went to the State budget — NONE OF THE INCREASE WAS RECEIVED BY CITIES — costing over $2.7 billion in future lost revenues; and WHEREAS, the State, through its Legislature and Governor, frequently contemplates further reductions to municipal revenues; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF DECATUR, MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS: SECTION 1: The City of Decatur cannot preserve basic services with any reduction in shared tax revenues. SECTION 2: The City of Decatur strongly opposes any reduction in state collected revenues and demands that the General Assembly and Governor take NO FURTHER ACTION TO FINANCIALLY RUIN MUNICIPALITIES. SECTION 3: The City of Decatur, Illinois requests every Senator and Representative to reject any diminution of desperately needed revenue due municipalities.