HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2010.12.09 - 10040ANCE COMMITTEE
REPORT December 9, 2010
BY: Finance Committee, Thomas Middleton, Chairperson
IN RE: MR t10310 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR
CONSTRUCTION ZONE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF BILL
To: The Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Lathes and Gentlem en:
The Finance Committee, having reviewed the above referenced resolution on
December 2, 2010, reports with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move acceptance of the
foregoing report.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Woodward absent.
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #10310
BY: Commissioners Shelley G. Taub, District #16 and Bill Bullard, Jr., District #2
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - Support for Construction Zone Property Tax
Relief Bill
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson requested the Michigan legislature
to consider proposals to provide property tax relief to businesses that are negatively impacted
by construction zones anywhere in Michigan; and
WHEREAS the proposal recommended that local communities should have the option to reduce
property taxes up to 50% for businesses struggling financially from the impact of construction
zones; and
WHEREAS House Bill 6572, known as the "Adverse Construction Specific Tax Act," requires a
major infrastructure construction project last at least three months its first year and at least two
months if it extends into a second year in order for a business to be eligible for reduced property
taxes. This will not include projects performed on interstate highways. A business impacted
adversely by major construction will be able to apply for an exemption with its local assessor or
clerk of the local tax collecting unit; and
WHEREAS House Bill 6571 adds section 700 to MCL 211.1 to 211.155 (the General Property
Tax Act), allowing governing bodies of local tax collecting units to adopt a resolution to exempt
real and personal property owned or leased by an eligible business; and
WHEREAS if adopted, the two proposed bills will then allow local governing bodies to adopt a
resolution allowing businesses within a significant infrastructure construction project to only pay
the reduced adverse construction specific tax, which would amount to a 50% reduction in their
general property tax; and
WHEREAS if adopted, local governmental units would have the option of extending this tax
relief to their local businesses which are impacted by major construction zones.
NOW THEREFORE BE 1T RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners,
hereby proclaim their support for House Bills 6571 and 6572 - the Adverse Construction
Specific Tax Act - which provides local units of governments with the opportunity to provide tax
relief to local businesses which are negatively impacted by major construction projects.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners requests that
the proposed legislation holds local taxing jurisdictions harmless from the decrease in revenues
associated with providing property tax relief to businesses that are negatively impacted by
construction zones, by having the State of Michigan reimburse those local units.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk is requested to forward copies of
this adopted resolution to Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, State Representative
Gail Haines, the House Committee on Tax Policy, Oakland County's delegation to the Michigan
legislature, the Clerks for Oakland County's Cities, Villages and Townships, the Oakland County
Chamber Network, the Michigan Association of Counties and Oakland County's legislative
lobbyists.
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Resolution #10310 November 18, 2010
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Finance Committee. There were no objections.
Resolution #10310 December 9,2010
Moved by Middleton supported by Coleman the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended
Consent Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Bullard, Burns, Coleman, Coulter, Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Greimel. Hatchett, Jackson,
Jacobsen, Long. McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Potts. Runestad, Schwartz, Scott, Taub, Woodward,
Zack. (22)
NAYS: (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended Consent
Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
I HEREBY VW TliEj01,0110 RESOLUTION
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STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Ruth Johnson, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on December 9, 2010,
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at Pontiac,
Michigan this 9111 day of December, 2010.
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Ruth Johnson, County Clerk