HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2010.07.22 - 10116REPORT July 22, 2010
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE — Christine Long, Chairperson
RE: MR #10150 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF SB 803
TO MAKE PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS FAIRER AND MORE ACCURATE
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 amended to insert a first BE IT FURTHER
RESOLUTION paragraph as follows,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners encourages
the legislature to define 'the calendar year."
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the acceptance of the
foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll cal vote with Capello absent.
Miscellaneous Resolution # 10150
BY: Commissioners Tim Bums, District #19, and Tim Greimel, District #11
RE: Board of Commissioners — Resolution in Support of SB 803 to Make Property Tax
Assessments Fairer and More Accurate
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, some property tax assessments may not reflect the overall decline In prices in the
property market or the most up-to-date comparable property values;
WHEREAS, Michigan Senate Bill 803 seeks to address these concerns by mandating that the
Department of Treasury shall require assessors to use a sales ratio study based on the calendar
year in determining assessments";
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby supports Michigan Senate Bill 803. 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.
Tim Greimel, District 11 Trn Bums, District 19
Resolution #10150 June 9, 2010
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no objections.
Resolution #10150 July 22, 2010
Moved by Long supported by Burns the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Long supported by Burns the General Government Committee Report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the report was accepted.
Moved by Long supported by Burns the resolution be amended to coincide with the recommendation in the
General Government Committee Report
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Hatchet Jackson, Jacobsen, Long, McGillivray,
Middleton, Nash, Potts, Runestad. Schwartz, Scott, Taub, Zack, Bullard, Burns. Coulter,
Douglas. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution, as amended, was adopted.
DOES NOT BEGUN C111EY EXECUTIVE ACTION
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.
eat
Ruth Johnson, County Clerk