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64 <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE CONCERNS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE <br />CIT~ OF PORTSMOUTH TO THE PRESIDENT,S PLAN TO GRANT DRUG WAR <br />FUNDS TO THE STATES FOR DISTRIBUTION TO LOCALITIES AND TO <br />REQUIRE INCREASED LOCAL EXPENDITURES TO FINANCE THAT PLAN. <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, President George Bush has recently announced a <br />Federal strategy to combat and eliminate the sale and usage of <br />drugs throughout the nation; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the announced strategy calls for the Federal <br />distribution .of funds to individual states who will then <br />determine the timing and amounts of allocation of such funds <br />to local governments; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the announced strategy calls for the funding of <br />the President's program through the reduction of Federal <br />financial assistance to municipalities and by an increase in <br />expenditures by municipalities; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the effects stemming from drug sale and usage in- <br />the City of Portsmouth are serious and immediate and will <br />greatly increase and worsen if needed Federal funds are <br />delayed while the City awaits distribution of Federal funds by <br />the State; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth is without the financial <br />resources to replace the proposed cuts in Federal funds for <br />the war on drugs, in that 56% of the City's land is already <br />exempt from taxation. <br /> <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City <br />of Portsmouth, Virginia, that it hereby expresses its <br />opposition to any decrease in Federal aid to states and <br />localities in order to fund the proposed war on drugs. <br /> <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Council of the City of <br />Portsmouth, Virginia, that it expresses its opposition to that <br />portion of the proposed plan that eliminates direct Federal <br />grants to municipalities by the Federal government for drug <br />enforcement. <br /> <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of <br />Portsmouth, Virginia, hereby endorses an increase in Federal <br />funding directly to municipalities as well as to states, to <br />combat the sale and usage of drugs. <br /> <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk be, and she <br />hereby is, directed to forward copies of this resolution to <br />the Virginia Delegation to the United States Congress, the <br />Portsmouth Delegation to the Virginia General Assembly, the <br /> <br /> <br />