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It is a sign of a robust and good economy, so he carmot give the answer that we have a <br />plan, or will ever have a plan, to erase congestion in Alameda County. That is an <br />unrealistic goat. <br /> <br /> Ms. Ayala agee& but would he fight to get the Federal and State gas tax into the <br />state7 <br /> <br /> Mr. Fay said that for a long time Congress was using some of the gas tax revenues <br />to offset the Federal deficit. Congress is not doing that any longer. <br /> <br />Ms. Ayala agreed but said they are not going to repay it <br /> <br />Mr. Faye said that no, they are not. That money is gone. <br /> <br /> Ms. Ayala said that they have taken the people's tax dollars that were supposed to <br />be used for transportation to backfill Social Security and Medicare. <br /> <br /> Mr. Fay said that he did not know exactly what the Federal government did with <br />it, and he is not privy m the accounting, but he did know that it did not get returned to <br />transportation. <br /> <br /> Ms. Ayala said that she realized that this is not his problem, but she felt like <br />transportation agencies are not pushing for the taxes that we are paying today to be used <br />for the purposes for which they were levied. She believes in being honest with the public. <br /> <br /> Mr. Fay said that right now, as far as he knows, especially with what is being <br />proposed in the Legislature right now, you will find that virtually every tax dollar that <br />you will be paying now and in the future that is related to transportation will be returned <br />to transportation, in one way or another. <br /> <br />Ms. Ayala said that is what we were told before. <br /> <br /> Mr. Fay said that that was then, and this is now, and Congress is very unlikely to <br />give the monies back to us, at either the Federal or State level. Under the State <br />Constitution, your gas tax is protected. Gas tax revenues can only go to transportation. <br /> <br /> Ms. Ayala said that she may have incorrect information on that and she would <br />check further. <br /> <br /> Mr. Fay said that the sales tax on gasoline has, in the past. been going to other <br />things. The State Legislature is about to rectify that with a bill that is now on the floor of <br />the Assembly. Sales tax will come back to transportation. The sales tax on gasolh~e is <br />the one thing that has been lost. It was all going into the General Fund. Some of it was <br />coming back to transportafion, but not all of it. At least for the next five years. according <br />to the legislation that is now in the Legislature. it will come back to transportation. <br /> <br />Pleasanton City Council 13 06/20/00 <br />Minutes <br /> <br /> <br />