HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2010.07.22 - 10115REPORT July 22, 2010
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE — Christine Long, Chairperson
RE: MR #10149 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF SB 804
AND SB 805 TO MAKE PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS FAIRER AND MORE JUST
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having considered the above titled resolution on July
12, 2010, hereby recommends that the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the acceptance of the
foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Capelio absent.
Tim Greimel, District 11
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Miscellaneous Resolution # 10149
BY: Commissioners Tim Burns, District #19, and Tim Greimel, District #11
RE: Board of Commissioners — Resolution in Support of SB 804 and SB 805 to Make
Property Tax Assessments Fairer and More Just
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, many Michigan property owners are concerned about their property tax
assessments during this time of declining property values; and
WHEREAS, under current law, when a property owner and taxpayer wins an appeal before
his/her local board of review, his/her property tax assessment is lowered for the following year,
but is then often unjustifiably increased to the assessed value that existed prior to the property
owner's appeal;
WHEREAS, under current law, when a property owner and taxpayer wins an appeal before the
Michigan Tax Tribunal, the local tax collecting unit is not statutorily required to use the order of
the Michigan Tax Tribunal as the basis for calculating the property's taxable value in the
immediately following year;
WHEREAS. Michigan Senate Bill 804 would ensure that, when a property owner and taxpayer
has the assessed value or taxable value of his/her property reduced as a result of a protest to
his/her local board of review, the reduced amount will be used as the basis for calculating the
property's taxable value in future years;
WHEREAS, Michigan Senate Bill 805 would provide that, when a property owner and taxpayer
wins an appeal before the Michigan Tax Tribunal, the local tax collecting unit is statutorily
required to use the order of the Michigan Tax Tribunal as the basis for calculating the property's
taxable value in the immediately following year;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby supports Michigan Senate Bills 804 and 805, encourages the state Senate and state
House of Representatives to pass them, and encourages Governor Jennifer Granholm to sign
the resulting legislation into law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners requests that
the Oakland County Clerk send copies of this resolution to all members of the Michigan
Legislature and to Governor Jennifer Granholm.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
urn Bums, District 19
Resolution #10149 June 9, 2010
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no objections.
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Resolution #10149 July 22, 2010
Moved by Gosselin supported by Nash the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
Discussion followed.
AYES: Burns, Coulter, Douglas, Gershenson, Ginge11, Gosselin, Greimel, Jackson, Jacobsen, Long,
McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Potts, Runestad, Scott, Taub, Zack, Bullard. (19)
NAYS: None, (0)
ABSTAIN: Schwartz. (1)
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).
IVES NOT REQUIRE car EXECUIIVE AMON
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 July 22, 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 22nd day of July, 2010.
Gat
Ruth Johnson, County Clerk