HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.09.12 - 11234Miscellaneous Resolution # 85268 September 12, 1985
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: REQUIREMENT OF DEPOSITS ON WINE COOLER CONTAINERS (SUPPORT)
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, when the State Legislature was debating a bill in 1978
to require deposits on most bottle and can beverage containers, wine cooler
containers were omitted bacause sales of these beverages were minimal at
the time; and
Thus when this proposed legislation was signed into law later in
1978 there was no provision that wine cooler containers be returnable; and
WHEREAS, the fact that wine cooler beverages have made trememdous
gains in sales in recent years and registered a 575 percent sales increase
in the past year is viewed as a threat to the state's successful litter
control program; and
WHEREAS, the Michigan United Conservation Clubs and Attorney
General Frank Kelley have called on the Michigan Liquor Control Commission
to require deposits on wine cooler containers and to effect this requirement
either through the Commission's own authority or through legislation amending
the 1978 "bottle law."
NOW THEREFORE RE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners supports whatever measure is necessary to require that wine
cooler containers be made returnable like most other beverage containers.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to
all Oakland County State Legislators and to the County's Legislative Agent.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee,
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
12th day of September 19 85
ALLEN
Coun/y Clerk/Register of Deeds
September 12, 1985 #85268
Moved by Skarritt supported by Aaron the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Moore, Nelson, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb,
Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Doyon, Gosling, Hobart, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Law, McConnell,
McDonald, McPherson, Moffitt. (22)
NAYS: Lanni. (1)
PASS: Fortino. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
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COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that 1 have compared the annexed copy of the attached
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on September 12, 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
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