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MARICOPA COUNTY RESOLUTION NO. C-20-16-0XX-M-00 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF MARICOPA COUNTY, PHOENIX, ARIZONA RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE FUNDING FOR THE PAYMENT-IN-LIEU-OF-TAXES PROGRAM (PILT). WHEREAS, the Payment-In-Lieu-of-Taxes program was established in 1976 to offset costs incurred by counties for services provided to the federal government and to the users of federal lands located within a county, and WHEREAS, the County of Maricopa is comprised of 5,903,360 acres, of which 2,441,551 acres, 41 percent, is held by the federal government and unavailable for economic development and not part of the property tax base, and WHEREAS, the State of Arizona contains 113,417 square miles of land, with federally owned land, excluding tribal lands, comprising 42 percent of the land mass, while private land in Arizona comprises only 17 percent, and WHEREAS, the national average PILT payment in Fiscal Year 2014 was $0.72 per acre, far below the amount federal lands would return through both value based taxation and economic development, and WHEREAS, Maricopa County is required to provide law enforcement, search and rescue, emergency services, road building and maintenance, and other community services on, or associated with tax-exempt federal public lands, and WHEREAS, a lack of PILT funding places the large, unsustainable burden of providing services on federal lands squarely on the back of Maricopa County taxpayers, while the presence of that federal land creates barriers to further economic opportunities, and WHEREAS, failure to provide mandatory PILT funding to Arizona counties in a timely manner will critically impact the budget process and structural solvency of Maricopa County, and substantially compromise the county’s ability to provide essential services. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County hereby respectfully requests that the United States Congress provide sustainable funding to the PILT program without delay. AUTHORZED this 9th day of September, 2015 by Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Phoenix, Arizona. _________________________ Chairman, Board of Supervisors ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: _________________________ _________________________ Clerk of the Board Attorney for the County