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Draft <br />RESOLUTION N0. <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS <br />DECLARING SUPPORT FOR FUNDING A PORTION OF THE <br />RIGHT-OF-WAY ACQUISITION COSTS AND UTILITY RELOCATION COSTS <br />FOR UPGRADING AND WIDENING STATE HIGHWAY 24 FROM COOPER, <br />TEXAS SOUTHWEST TO THE DELTA/HUNT COUNTY LINE IN AN <br />AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,500,000.00; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS <br />AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND DECLARING AN <br />EFFECTIVE DATE. <br />WHEREAS, expansion and improvement of the transportation infrastructure <br />leading to Paris, Lamar County, Texas from the Interstate 30 corridor is vital to the <br />economic development of the City of Paris, and Lamar County, as well as to the safety of the <br />traveling public; and <br />WHEREAS, for over 30 years, community leaders from the City of Paris, Texas, <br />Lamar County, Texas and the North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority urged the Texas <br />Legislature, TXDOT and the Texas Transportation Commission to upgrade and widen SH 24 <br />from a 2-lane highway to a 4-lane divided highway from Interstate 30 to the Paris city <br />limits; and <br />WHEREAS, the only stretch of SH 24 that has not been upgraded to a 4-lane divided <br />highway is the 10.4 mile gap from Cooper, Texas southwest to the Delta/Hunt County line; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, in 2001 the Texas Legislature enacted legislation to create Regional <br />Mobility Authorities to focus transportation needs and available funding for projects on a <br />regional basis; and <br />WHEREAS, in 2002 the counties of Delta, Hunt, Lamar and Hopkins formed the <br />North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority ("NETMOB") to focus on transportation <br />needs in the four county area and to advocate these transportation projects to TXDOT and <br />the Texas Transportation Commission; and <br />WHEREAS, upgrading and widening SH 24 from a two-lane highway to a four-lane <br />divided highway between Interstate 30 and the city limits of the City of Paris, Texas has <br />been a top priority project for the North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority and the <br />Sulphur River Regional Mobility Authority (successor entity to NETMOB); and <br />WHEREAS, TXDOT has now pledged Thirty Million Dollars ($30,000,000.00) of <br />funding to complete the final 10.4 mile stretch of SH 24 from Cooper southwest to the <br />Delta/Hunt County line but will require approximately Four Million Five Hundred <br />00S <br />