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CITY OF SARATOGA
Memorandum
To: Mayor Miller and Members of the City Council
From: Crystal Bothelio, City Clerk
Date: May 6, 2015
Subject: Supplemental Attachment for Item 7 – Resolution of Support for Senate Bill 16
Following publication of the May 6, 2015 City Council Agenda Packet, staff received questions
regarding Item 7 – Resolution of Support for Senate Bill 16. Via this memo, staff would like to clarify
information provided in the staff report.
If adopted, the bill would establish the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program that would
provide for increases to the vehicle fuel tax, diesel fuel excise tax, vehicle registration fee, and
create a new vehicle registration fee for zero‐emission vehicles. Additionally, the program must be
reauthorized every five years. If the program is not reauthorized, only the $100 vehicle registration
fee for zero‐emission vehicles would continue. The fuel tax, diesel tax, and $35 addition to vehicle
registration costs would become inoperative. Revenues from registration fee for zero‐emission
vehicles would go to the State Highway Account for State highway maintenance, operations, and
protection.