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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-01-24 00-89 RESOLVECOUNCIL ACTION Item No, 00-89 Date: January34, 3000 Item/Subject: RESOLVE, Support For Legm1adve Proposals To Engineer, Permit And Construct An Past -West Highway. Responsible Department: CNCouncil East/ West Highway Committee _ The mstenoe of an East-West Highway connecting Bangor to the New Brunswick border at Calais m the east, and to the Quebec border in the west, is an essential element of transportation iNrastraware for Bangor m realize its opportunity 0 be a rare cross -road for visitor and commercial highway traffic between the Canadian Maritime provirNes and hot dre US east coast anal central Canada. This resolve supports the Governor's supplemernd general find budget request to the legislature to engineer, permit, and construct initial segments of improved east -west highway routes. The Community and Economic Development Committee reviewed the request at its mating on January 19, 2000 and recommends approval. Depart erd Head Manager's Comments: QA.,:.r}pq�Ua,kirti��..t,�r',gn&py �w ul.a"^'&vAAieq 1'h�a.pgQa,r,.,,inR rti9 ()o.�T/ Ow M Itu.mW�dl Associatetl Information: Finance Director Assni'l Gn Soliatar Intryducod for -' Passage First Reading Page _ of Referral 00-89 "slgoed to Councilor Paruhmn January 36, 2000 CITY OF BANGOR (rITtE.) Resolve, Supporting the Suoplemental fivonoilriatiOnr the slaw Demmment gfTransoortation for Projects to Improve East-West Travel In and Through the State of Maine By the Oiy Cmffxd of sire CXy ofEatWr RESOLVED WHEREAS, the Governor has proposed a supplemental General Fund budget for the State Department of Transportation whicli includes funding for a number of projects designed to Improve East-West Highway travel within and through the State of Maine; and WHEREAS, this appropriation represents the initial step in a multi-year program designed to Improve East-West travel through modernizing the existing arterial system, enhancing safety, and reducing travel times; and WHEREASf infrastructure investment of this nature is essential to supporting and encouraging economic development throughout Northern, Eastern and Westem Maine, areas which have not experienced the economic growth of Southern and coaxal Maine; and WHEREAS, the volume of commerce between the United States and Canada is and will continue to increase as the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement are Implemented; and WHEREAS, the nature and condition of Maine's agent highway system linking the Maritime Provinces on the East with Quebec and Ontario to the West are deficient in condition, alignment, capacity, and safety; and WHEREAS, the lack of a modern East-West Highway System in Maine is an Impediment to the development of both higher levels of international trade and strengthened regional economies; NOW, THEREFORE, BE R RESOLVED BY THE CRY COUNCIL OF THE CRY OF BANGOR, THAT: we support the supplemental General Fund budget requested by the Governor and the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Transportation and urge the State Legislature to approve this request; and M BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, THAT we recognize this request as the first step in a multi-year process to improve our East-West Highway system and urge the Legislature ro continue to support future funding for this effort; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, THAT the eventual goal of this effort should be the construction of a limited access East-West Highway connecting the Province of New Brunswick to the East with the Province of Quebec and the State of New Hampshire on the West. Copies of this Resolve shall be provided to members of the Appropriations and Transportation .Committees of the Maine State Legislature, the Bangor Legislative Delegation, the Governor, the Commissioner of Transportation, and the Maine Congressional Delegation. CITY IN uary 24. 20L . motion or assn motion for Passage we and Seconded Title, Supporting tM SLppleoental Rppropriatioo for the State Deperrvmt of neasportation for Projects to fm� Prove Seat- est haVel in and T Ough the State ofAa1lgnedto