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RESOLUTION NO. o oc-�o-Ob-D) -f? <br /> A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF FAIR AND DIRECT FEDERAL EMERGENCY <br /> MONETARY SUPPORT TO REOPEN AND REBUILD LOCAL AMERICAN <br /> ECONOMIES BY PROVIDING CRITICAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL <br /> MUNICIPALATIES PROVIDING ESSENTIAL SERVICES TO THEIR CITIZENS <br /> WHEREAS, America's cities, towns and villages face unprecedented threats due to the <br /> ongoing COVID-19 pandemic emergency; and <br /> WHEREAS, municipalities are essential to America's economic recovery and without <br /> funding support for local governments, municipalities may go from being a critical part of the <br /> economic solution, to becoming a major obstacle to long-term stabilization and recovery; and <br /> WHEREAS, America's cities, towns and villages will experience budgetary shortfalls in <br /> fiscal year 2020 and the negative effects of the pandemic emergency on local communities will <br /> continue for the foreseeable future; and <br /> WHEREAS, at least three million critical municipal jobs are at risk, threatening cuts to <br /> basic services, including police, fire, sanitation, water and wastewater services,maintenance and <br /> emergency response; and <br /> WHEREAS, communities have taken extraordinary measures to protect health, safety,and <br /> the continuation of these essential services throughout the emergency; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Batesville, Arkansas has been impacted negatively by having to <br /> alter work schedules to ensure entire departments continue operating with minimum likelihood of <br /> exposure to COVID-19; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Batesville, Arkansas has been impacted negatively by having to <br /> postphone and limit needed collaborative meetings; and <br /> WHEREAS, the distribution of revenues from sales taxes lags collections by two to three <br /> months and the City of Batesville, Arkansas expects those revenues to be potentailly reduced by <br /> significant amounts based on actual reported state sales tax collections; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Batesville, Arkansas has been impacted negatively by <br /> experiencing reduced revenues from water and wastewater services as businesses have been closed <br /> or operating hours reduced for extended periods; and <br /> WHEREAS,the City of Batesville, Arkansas has been impacted negatively by having to <br /> close or severly restrict the use of its Community & Aquatics Center thereby depriving it of <br /> needed revenue; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Batesville, Arkansas has been impacted negatively by reductions <br /> in the collection of its advertising and promotions tax and its tax on alcoholic beverages served by <br /> restuarants; and <br />