19981124 r-98-65RESOLUTION NO. R-98-65
A RESOLUTION ENDORSING FULL FUNDING BY THE STATE TO LOCALITIES
WHEREAS, the General Assembly passed HB599 in 1979 as part ora legislative package
intended to direct additional state financial assistance to cities in exchange for the loss of authority to
annex land in surrounding counties; and
WHEREAS, one type of state financial assistance included in I-IB599 was payment to cities,
towns and counties with police departments, which was intended to compensate for the disparity
between state funding for local police departments and sheriffs' offices; and
WHEREAS, the Virginia Code directs the Governor and the General Assembly to increase
the total amount of HB599 funds to be distributed each year by the anticipated percentage change in
state general fund revenues; and
WHEREAS, funding for HB599 was reduced from $80.5 million to less than $67 million in
fiscal year 1992, and has remained frozen at that level since 1992; and
WHEREAS, based on annual general fund growth rates, the total amount of liB599 funding
would have increased to $151 million by fiscal year 1999 if the state had funded this program in
accordance with state law; and
WHEREAS, if the state had funded this program in accordance with state law, the City of
Fairfax would currently be receiving $744,668 per year from the state instead of the $329,129 which
it is currently receiving; and
WHEREAS, by fiscal year 2000 the total amount of funding that the state would have
distributed to localities since the I-IB599 program's inception if the law had been observed will be
$610 million; and
WHEREAS, since the program's inception the total lamount of funding that the state has
failed to distribute to the City of Fairfax totals $2,542,393; and
WHEREAS, the commonwealth benefits when the relationship between the state and its
local governments is based on mutual trust and support;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Governor and General Assembly shall
develop a plan to fully fund I-IB599 by the year 2000, and that the amendments to the 1998-2000
budget enacted during the 1999 General Assembly should include a substantial increase in this
program beginning in fiscal year 1999.
This Resolution shall become effective as provided by law.
ENACTED:
T. Coughlan
J. Greenfield
R. Lederer
J. Petersen
G. Rasmussen
S. Silverthome
November 24, 1998
Vote
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MAYOR
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