HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.04.18 - 1108501 L. Miscellaneous Resolution 85121 April 18, 19
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: ROAD COMMISSION - SUPPORT AMENDMENTS TO ACT 51
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, a State Needs Study has recently been produced by the
Michigan Department of Transportation, which study indicates that counties'
highway needs have increased; and
- WHEREAS, under existing law, the allocation of Act 51 funds will sunset
on September 30, 1985; and
WHEREAS, certain amendatory legislation has been proposed by the
Oakland County Road Commission and the Urban Association of the County Road
Association of Michigan; and
WHEREAS, such proposed amendatory legislation would accomplish
the following:
1. Amend the external formula of Act 51 of 1951 to provide
that from the Michigan transportation fund, the county road
commissions will receive 43.0%, the cities and villages will
receive 22. 4%, and the state trunkline fund will receive 34. 6%.
2. Amend the urban formula of Act 51 of 1951 to increase
the urban fund from 10% to 15% of the Michigan transportation
funds allocated to county road commissions.
3. Add a new section lo Act 51 of 1951 to allocate all of
the federal discretionary funds to cities, villages, and county
road commissions by adding those funds to the Federal Aid
Secondary (FAS) and Federal Aid Urban System (PA US) monies
currently received by these local entities, using the same
distribution formula currently in use by the Michigan Department
of Transportation.
4. Amend that portion of Act 51 (Padden Amendment) which
requires that 90% of the state and federal monies returned to
the county road commissions be spent for "maintenance,"
by reducing the ADT requirement for roads in federal urban
areas and allowing for the paving of gravel roads.
5. Elimination of the gas tax credit for gasohol, thus
establishing the tax on gasohol at the full 150 per gallon.
WHEREAS, the General Government Committee believes that such proposed
amendatory legislation would be in the best interests of the County of Oakland
and of the public.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners does hereby support the above described proposed amended legislation.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
#85121 April 18, 1985
18th day of___14/J3L_ April 19 85
ALLEN
Moved by Olsen supported by Hassberger the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Wilcox, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hassberger, Hobart,
R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson,
Olsen, Page, Perinoff,Pernick, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb. -(25)
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
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at
their meeting held on April 18, 1985
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
Courly Clerk/Register of Deeds