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RESOLUTION No. 11, SERIES 2004 A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF AN EQUITABLE ALLOCATION OF STATE AND FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS TO THE METROPOLITAN DENVER REGION WHEREAS, the Colorado Transportation Commission adopts long range plan resource allocations of all state and federal transportation revenues; and WHEREAS, the metropolitan Denver region constitutes 56 percent of the state's population and contributes 52 percent of the transportation dollars allocated by the Colorado Transportation Commission; and WHEREAS, the metro Denver region's share of the Colorado Department of Transportation's long range plan resource allocations was 46 percent in the November 1998 Statewide Transportation Plan adopted by the Colorado Transportation Commission; and WHEREAS, the metro Denver region's share of the Colorado Department of Transportation's long range plan resource allocations was reduced to 34 percent in November 1999, and 36 percent in the June 2001 State Resource Allocation Program which was part of the Statewide Transportation Plan adopted by the Colorado Transportation Commission; and WHEREAS, the most recent Transportation Resource Allocation for FY 2005 - 2030, dated November 24, 2003, further reduces the metro Denver region's share of state transportation revenues to less than 28 percent; thereby making it difficult for the Denver metro area to address its congestion problems; and WHEREAS, this reduction in metro Denver's historic share of state transportation revenues translates to a reduction in transportation funding for the fifty municipalities and counties in the metro Denver region of 1.9 billion dollars compared to the 2025 plan just two years ago, and a reduction in funding for the metro Denver region of 4.2 billion dollars compared to what we would have received just five years ago; and WHEREAS, this reduction in metro Denver's resource allocation provides the businesses and residents of the Denver region only 54 cents back for every dollar paid in taxes, and metro area citizens deserve a better return on their tax dollars; and WHEREAS, the federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) guarantees that each state is to receive at least 90.5 percent of every dollar it contributes to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund, and the Colorado congressional delegation strongly supported this guaranteed minimum return to donor states; and WHEREAS, this same principle of transportation funding equity should apply to the allocation of state transportation revenues by the Colorado Transportation Commission to each