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-: ~YYylDRDAS, unfunded mandates on state and localgovernments Have increasedsignificantly in recent years, and
~FP7Z,PAS, federal mandates require cities and towns to perform duties without consideration of local circumstances,
costs, or capacity, and sudject municipalities to civil or criminal penalties far noncompCuznce, and
4N~C~R~AS, federal mandates require complzance regardless of other pressing local needs andpriorities affecting the
health, we fare, and safety of municipal citizens, and
7N~fPR~AS, excessive federal' Burdens on localgovernments force some coordination of higher local taxes and fees and/ar
reduced local services on citizens and local' taxpayers, and ~ -
7~l~~PAS, federal mandates are too often inflexidle, one-size fits-all requirements that impose ,unrealistic time frames
and speczfy procu~ or far~zlities where leas c~l~' pI ~ , ~ ~zves mzght de just as a t~,ve, and
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tiV~IP~~AS, exrstzng marulaxes impose harsh pressures on (ocal'l~ucl~~ets and the f~~rt~~'~dz'r~rn~Zt ~s imposed a freeze
uport'fu~rzding to help compensate for any nezv mandar~s, nnli ~:
~ impact of these legislutir~e and rr•rru.fatonr urttons directly ajj"ect the citizens of our cities and
7NylP EAS, the cumulative ~~
towns, and - -:.,..
~1P2~,~AS, the rational League of Cities,'in conjunctionwith ntfier state and l~~calgoverfzazent:repr~entati~ties, has
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begun a national prtdlu edz~cation campaign to help e,ri~ens iender~ rand and then reduce the lturden and
in le -alit un nded mandates, d irinin .:with a anon I. '
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Octoder27, 19,93, '
2~, 2ZE, I CJe'~y B. Montgomery, J~fayor of the City of Paducah, 7~entucl4y; -do hereby y~oclAa.m
Octoder27,1993 as ~~~
~A7IO~AL `L191(~`LI~D~D MA~DA7E,S Dsi}'
and resolve to redoudle our efforts to inform and wor(~, with memders of our Congressional delegation to
educate them adout the impact of federal mandates and actions necessary to reduce their Burden on our
citizens.
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