HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.11.07 - 11295November 7, 1985
Miscellaneous Resolution # 85335
BY: Roy Rewold, County Commissioner - District #16
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS' PRISON SITE RECOMMENDATION
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the State of Michigan, pursuant to Public Act 303 and Public Act
485 of 1980, has developed a comprehensive plan for future regional correctional
facilities ; and
WHEREAS, the Michigan Department of Corrections has indicated a need for
the construction of a regional prison in Oakland County by 1988 which will
require specific site selection in 1985; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Corrections is recommending that 92.16 acres
in Orion Township be designated for the proposed State Prison site; and
WHEREAS, this location does not meet with any of the principle tenets of
the 'Program Statement for the Regional Prototype Facility." which the State
Department of Corrections instructed be used as the basis for site selection
(attached); and
WHEREAS, the Orion site does not meet three of the five "important" criteria
and does not meet any of the five criteria designated as "desirable" by the State
Department of Correwtions (see attached); and
WHEREAS, the State-funded consultant's study which recommended the Orion
B site did not address that several local churches and the Township's only
senior and junior high schools were within close proximity to the proposed prison
site and did not address the cost of constructing 1.5 miles of waterline to this
site which is estimated to be in excess of $1.6 million; and
WHEREAS, the only fire protection available to this facility would be provided
by volunteers whose station is located more than 2 miles from the proposed site;
and
WHEREAS, the consultants report to the State includes many inconsistencies
such as a description of Lapeer Road on Page 15 as a "moderately traveled,.
4-lane highway" and on Page 27 as "heavily traveled, divided highway"; and
WHEREAS, the consultant's scoring is inconsistent and uses criteria such as
ease of expansion which is in direct conflict with the State's principle premise of
providing smaller prisons in population centers; and
„,•
Roy Rewol
County COmmissioner, District #16
WHEREAS, if the scoring were done in a consistent manner, consideration
would have been given to the development costs of the Orion site, • environmental
impact on the Oakland County and Orion B sites, neighborhood character of the
Orion B site and the fire protection capabilities of the Auburn Hills and Orion B
sites, and would have resulted in the following total scores: Auburn Hills, -4;
Oakland County, +10, and Orion B, +3 (see attached).
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commis-
sioners does hereby reject the Department of Correction& recommendation of the
Orion B site for the proposed State Prison location.
Mr. Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
#85335 November 7, 1985
this 7th day
ALLEN
Counkt Clerk/Register of Deeds
November 9 85
Moved by Rewold supported by Webb the rules be suspended for immediate
consideration of the resolution.
AYES: S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Nelson, Olsen,
Page, Perinoff, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Caddell, Calandra Gosling, Hobart,
R. Kuhn. (19)
NAYS: McPherson, Moore, Pernick, Price, Aaron, Doyon, Fortino, Hassberger.
(8)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion to suspend
the rules carried.
Moved by Rewold supported by Gosling the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Nelson, Olsen, Page,
Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Caddell, Calandro, Gosling, Hobart, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn.
(18)
NAYS: McPherson, Moore, Perinoff, Pernick, Price Aaron, Doyon, Fortino. (8:
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 the attached
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
-at their meeting held on November 7, 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