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APP 2 1986 BOOK 6":�A 70 Commissioner Lyons stated that he would like to adopt a Resolution similar to the model submitted urging the reauthoriza- tion of revenue sharing as he felt it is terrible that local programs have to suffer in the name of budget balancing when we continue to increase the defense budget and foreign aid budget. ON MOTION by Commissioner Lyons, SECONDED by Commissioner Bird, Chairman Scurlock voting in opposition, the Board by a 4 - 1 vote adopted Resolution 86-14 urging the continuation of General Revenue Sharing. RESOLUTION NO. 86-14 A RESOLUTION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION IN SUPPORT OF GENERAI, REVENUE SHARING WHEREAS, over the last five years, the federal government has reduced domestic expenditures to state and local governments by 25% while during the same period, overall expenditures have increased by 25%; and WHEREAS, the budget proposal currently before Congress proposes another reduction to state and local revenues of $14.5 billion with a proposed defense increase of $16 plus billion; and WHEREAS, the Administration has called for the total elimination of the Federal Financial Assistance Act of 1972 (General Revenue Sharing), the only federal program which assures a domestic partnership with each county in the state and country; and WHEREAS, all past federal domestic reductions have carried the assurance that they were being accomplished for the sake of deficit reduction while, in fact, the dollars were shifted to other expenditure categories in defense and foreign aid; and WHEREAS, at the same time that the federal government reduced domestic spending, defense spending increased and also federal taxes were reduced, thus further increasing the deficit; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners, along with our ORO