HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1977.07.07 - 10566MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 8065 July 7, 1977
RE: EXTENSION OF FEDERAL GRANT FUNDS DEADLINE
BY: PLANNING & BUILDING COMMITTEE - RICHARD R. WILCOX
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the State of Michigan stands to lose approximately $300 million in FY 76
construction grant money for sanitary treatment works and collector sewers authorized under
PL-92-500, and
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland has nearly $100 Million worth of projects ( of which $30
Million are eligible for federal grants this year) currently being held up due to the EPA lawsuit
filed against the City of Detroit, and
WHEREAS, should all parties not agree to the proposed EPA Consent Judgment currently
being negotiated, the County will lose its federal grants for these projects because of a
September 30, 1977, deadline.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners urgently
requests all of its Congressional representatives to seek amendments to any bill that is applicable
to this subject matter to protect the Counties and the State from losing their federal consturction
grunt money.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to all Federal Legislators
representing Oakland County and to the Boards of Commissioners of Wayne, Genesse, St. Clair,
Macomb, Washtenaw, and Monroe Counties.
The Planning & Building Committee, by Richard R. Wilcox, moves the adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
PLANNING & BUILDING
ARijoit-4 .ofe 1A1,40144,i
Richard R. Wilcox, Cnairman
#8 065 July 7, 1977
Moved by Wilcox supported by Perinoff the resolution be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #8065 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners at their meeting held on July 7, 1977
with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, T have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 7th day of MY 1922.
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
By Deputy Clerk