HomeMy WebLinkAbout09_036 CC ResolutionRESOLUTION NO. 09-36
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF TEMECULA SUPPORTING THE REAUTHORIZATION
OF THE FEDERAL SAFE ROUTES (SRTS) LEGISLATION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMECULA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City of Temecula (the "City") is a member agency of the
Western Riverside Council of Governments ("WRCOG"), a joint powers authority
comprised of fifteen (15) additional member cities within western Riverside County, the
Eastern Municipal Water District, the Western Municipal Water District, and the County
of Riverside; and
Section 2. WRCOG and its member agencies support and promote pedestrian
and bicycle safety through infrastructure improvements and education programs,
especially with regard to schools, and to transportation projects that encourage
alternatives to automobile travel; and
Section 3. The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act
' - A Legacy for Users (SAFETY-LU) of 2005 established the Federal Safe Routes to
School (SRTS) program to empower communities to improve conditions for bicycling
and walking to school; and
Section 4. The City has benefited from prior SRTS funding, receiving an
award of $425,000 for the future construction of the Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge over
Santa Gertrudis Creek to Chaparral High School; and
Section 5. The SAFETY-LU is scheduled to expire on September 30, 2009;
and
Section 6. On March 2, 2009 the WRCOG Executive Committee adopted
Resolution No. 06-09 supporting the reauthorization of the SAFETY-LU and urging
legislators and local government agencies to allocate funding for more crossing guards,
implementation of engineering improvements around schools, traffic calming measures,
improved street crossings, sidewalks, bike lanes, and walkways to create safer routes to
school; and
Section 7. The City of Temecula joins WRCOG in supporting the SRTS
program and continued Federal funding for its implementation.
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PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Temecula this 28th day of April, 2009.
Maryann Edwards, Mayor
ATTEST: - -
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
' COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss
CITY OF TEMECULA )
I, Susan W. Jones, MMC, City Clerk of the City of Temecula, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution No. 09-36 was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of
the City of Temecula at a meeting thereof held on the 28th day of April, 2009, by the
following vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Comerchero, Naggar, Roberts, Washington,
Edwards
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
Susan . Jones, MMC
City Clerk
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