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Robert H. Gorsline, C airpe
Miscellaneous Resolution# 8894 April 5, 1979
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE- Robert H. Gors1ine, Chairperson
IN RE: PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO ELIMINATE THE REQUIREMENT THAT PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS' MEETINGS BE PUBLISHED IN A NEWSPAPER
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, under existing State Law, proceedings of meetings of the Board of
Commissioners must be published quarterly in an established newspaper; and
WHEREAS, this mandate resulted in a $35,629.00 cost to the County in 1977
and a $22,822.00 cost in 1978; and
WHEREAS, all indications are that the published Board of Commissioners
proceedings have minimal readership; and
WHEREAS, the availability of copies of Board proceedings in the office of the
County Clerk with a newspaper advertisement announcing this availability would serve the
public as well as publication 'sn a newspaper and would cost an estimated maximum of
$1,500.00 per year.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners urges the State Legislature to amend the existing law to permit an option to
counties to either publish proceedings in a newspaper or make copies available in the
County Clerk's office to be mailed on request or publish a synopsis of the proceedings
in a newspaper.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Clerk be directed to forward copies
of this resolution to Oakland County's State Legislators and to the County's Legislative
Agent.
The General Government Committee by Robert H. Garsline, Chairperson,
moves the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
#889 4 April 5, 1979
Moved by Gorsline supported by Perinoff the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Wilcox, Aaron,
DiGiovanni, Doyon, Dunaskiss, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Hobart, Kasper, Kelly,
McConnell, Moffitt, Montante, Moore, Moxley, Page. (22)
NAYS: None. (0)
ABSTAIN: Roth. (1)
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 #889 1+. adopted by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners at their meeting held on April 5, 1979
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, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
5th April this day of
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
By Deputy Clerk