HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1986.06.12 - 10804Miscellaneous Resolution # 86176 June 12, 1986
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: HOUSE BILLS 4419 and 4420 (OPPOSE) WHICH WOULD RAISE THE
MAXIMUM COUNTY JAIL HOLDING PERIOD FROM ONE TO TWO
YEARS AND AUTHORIZE CREATION OF CORRECITONS BOARDS AT
STATE AND COUNTY LEVELS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen :
WHEREAS Oakland County is proceeding with a $13 million
expansion of the county jail which is expected to provide a long-range
solution to crowded conditions at the facility ; and
WHEREAS the expansion comes on the heels of a $1.2 million
project converting the vacated county laundry and dry-cleaning plant
into dormitories providing housing for 90 prisoners ; and
WHEREAS the aforementioned undertakings along with several
smaller improvement projects at the jail were authorized by the Board
of Commissioners to effect compliance with a federal court consent
judgment due to past overcrowding conditions ; and
WHEREAS NOW House Bills 4419 and 4420 which would require
all sentences up to two years to be served in county jails, rather than
the present one year maximum, are before the House Corrections
Committee ; and
WHEREAS Sheriff Nichols has reviewed this legislation and is
totally opposed to the two-year provision which he said could bring as
many as 1,000 additional prisoners to the jail and negate the
time-consuming and costly efforts of the county to comply with the
federal court order ; and
WHEREAS the Sheriff also opposes the provisions of House Bills
4419 and 4420 mandating the creation of a state community corrections
board within the Department of Corrections and authorizing the creation
of corrective advisory boards at the county and regional levels ; and
WHEREAS the state board would have eleven members appointed
by the governor and they would include the director of the Department
of Corrections, the legislative corrections ombudsman, a county sheriff,
an advocate of alternatives to incarceration, a criminal defense
attorney, three representatives each of county government, trial judges
and prosecuting attorneys ; and
WHEREAS the
corrections advisory
appointed by boards
the legal community
county or regional (two or more counties)
boards would have from five to eleven members
and law enforcement officials and these boards
of commissioners representing the general public,
could apply for state funding by submitting a comprehensive
corrections plan to the
WHEREAS this
bureaucracy in place,
state board; and
legislation would put two additional layers of
would increase cost of the corrections process,
would cause delays and would not solve any existing problems but
would merely obfuscate them.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners takes a position opposing
4420.
House Bills 4419 and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be
sent to all legislators from Oakland County and to the County's
Legislative Agent.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government
Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
April 29, 1986
REPORT
BY:
IN RE:
Public Services Committee, James E. Lanni, Chairperson
House Bills 4419 and 4420 Which Require All
Felony Sentences of Two Years or Less to be
Served in County Jails
To the General Government Committee
Gentlemen:
The Public Services Committee, having reviewed the
April 11, 1986, letter from Sheriff John F. Nichols, concerning
House Bills 4419 and 4420 which would require all felony
sentences of two years or less to be served in County jails,
reports with the recommendation that it agrees with the Sheriff
that the General Government Committee should draft a resolution in
opposition to these bills for forwarding to the full Board.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services
Committee, I submit the foregoing report.
PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE
REPORT May 13, 1986
By: PLANNING & BUILDING COMMITTEE--Anne M. Hobart, Chairperson
In Re: IIOUSE BILLS 4419 and 4420
TO THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
The Planning and Building Committee, having reviewed the attached
communication from Sheriff Nichols, reports that it is in support of the Sheriff's
position regarding the subject legislation.
Further, the committee recommends that the General Government Committee
analyze the subject legislation to determine whether it is in violation of the
Headlee Amendment.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee,
I submit the foregoing report.
pli?:nning‘& Building Committee
12th day of 19 86
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
#86176 June 12, 1986
Moved by Olsen supported by Hassberger the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Webb, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Gosling,
Hassberger, Hobart, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson,
Moffitt, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Rowland,
Skarritt. .(26)
NAYS: None. (0)
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
this Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
t their meeting held on June 12, 1986
with the orginial 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
this