House Joint Resolution No. 432 of the 1989 Session of the General Assembly established this Commission to study infrastructure needs, revenue resources, tax authority, and tax capacity of local governments (Appendix A). In 1990, House Joint Resolution No. 205 added two members to the Commission. (Appendix B). The members of the Commission are as follows: Delegate Gladys B. Keating, Chairman, Senator Clive L. Duval, II, Vice Chairman, Delegate C. Richard Cranwell, Delegate David G. Brickley, Delegate Willard R. Finney, Delegate Clinton Miller, Delegate Robert K Cunningham, Sr., Senator Charles J. Colgan, Senator Madison E. Marye, Senator Robert E. Russell, Mayor Joseph A. Leafe, John G. Dicks, Lee Broughton, Steven W. Pearson, Robert T. Skunda, Betty S. Thomas, and Beverly T. Fitzpatrick.

Senate Joint Resolution No. 74 of the 1990 Session requested that the Commission also examine the need for regional stormwater detention systems and methods of financing such systems (Appendix C). The Commission issued an interim report to the Governor and the 1991 General Assembly which was published as House Document No. 47. The Interim report reviewed the work of this Commission through 1990 and presented its findings during the first two years of its work.