Fiscal Note
Since virtually all of the City's purchasing is currently from companies owned and domiciled in the United States, this policy resolution is likely to have no significant impact on City purchasing practices. There is, however, no local system currently in place to evaluate adherence to this policy and no resources have been provided to create such a system.
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SUBSTITUTE - 2009 Resolution on the Spending of Federal Economic Renewal grants to the City of Madison.
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WHEREAS, the economic downtown is having a critical impact on everyday Americans who are struggling to maintain or find jobs in an increasingly difficult environment; and
WHEREAS, those same Americans are the taxpayers that provide the revenue needed to operate essential government services; and
WHEREAS, Congress approved and President Obama signed into law a taxpayer-sponsored economic recovery package that will provide billions of dollars to help economically devastated cities and states immediately provide jobs to millions of out-of-work Americans through considerable infrastructure rebuilding, green energy projects and other projects that will require manufactured components; and
WHEREAS, our taxpayer dollars should be spent to maximize the creation of American jobs and restoring the economic vitality of our communities; and
WHEREAS, any domestically produced products that are purchased with economic recovery plan monies will immediately help struggling American families and will help stablize our greater economy; and
WHEREAS, any economic recovery plan spending should - to every extent possible - include a commitment from the City of Madison to buy materials, goods and services for projects from companies that are produced within the United States, thus employing the very workers that pay the taxes for the economic recovery plan spending in the first place.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that we the undersignedthe City of Madison will work to maximize the creation of Am...
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