Session 2000
Effective: March 17, 2000
SENATE RESOLUTION No. 1825
A Resolution in support of General Motors' Fairfax automobile assembly plant.
� � � WHEREAS,� Kansas is a business friendly state; and

� � � WHEREAS,� The General Motors Fairfax plant has enjoyed excellent
labor-management relations; and

� � � WHEREAS,� Kansas is a relatively low tax state thereby furthering ec-
onomic development within the state; and

� � � WHEREAS,� Kansas is fortuitously located in the center of our nation
and at the center of an outstanding railroad, highway and air distribution
network; and

� � � WHEREAS,� The General Motors Corporation has a large automobile
manufacturing facility in Wyandotte county known as the Fairfax plant,
which plant is the second newest plant in the General Motors system and
is of modern and energy efficient design; and

� � � WHEREAS,� This plant provides 3,000 of the best paying jobs in Kan-
sas; and

� � � WHEREAS,� The General Motors Corporation has announced its plan
to renovate the facility and to purchase new machine tools as it changes
from production of Oldsmobile Intrigue and Pontiac Grand Prix auto-
mobiles to a vehicle which is a product of the Epsilon project: Now,
therefore,

� � � Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas:�That we encourage
the retooling of the Fairfax plant and hope the successful partnership
between the state of Kansas and the General Motors Corporation can be
continued resulting in ongoing quality production at the Fairfax plant;
and

� � � Be it further resolved:�That the Secretary of the Senate be directed
to send an enrolled copy of this resolution to the President of the General
Motors Corporation, 100 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan 48265-
1000.

� � � Senate Resolution No. 1825 was sponsored by Senators Steineger, Gilstrap and Jones.