HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.12.12 - 11328December 12, 1985
December 12, 1985
Miscellaneous Resolution # 85370
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 a special Regional Prison Site Selection Committee of the
Oakland County Board of Commissioners identified four possible locations
for this prison; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has not as
yet recommended a specific site; and
WHEREAS the Michigan Department of Corrections has recommended
a site in Orion Township which fails to meet the principal tenets of its
own "Program Statement for the Regional Prototype Facility"; and
WHEREAS the Orion property was purchased with Land and Water
Conservation Grant Funds and the Land and Water Conservation Funds'
Manual states "Any property so acquired or developed shall not be wholly
or partly converted to other than public outdoor recreation uses without
the approval of the National Parks Service Regional Director, pursuant to
Section 6(F)(3) of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act. The Director
has authority to disapprove conversion requests and/or reject proposed
property substitution."; and
WHEREAS Dennis P. Galvin, Director of the United States Department
of Interior, in a letter to Congressman William S. Broomfield, has indicated
that approval of the use of the Orion property for other than outdoor
recreation would not be granted unless all other practical alternatives have
been considered and all other criteria fully evaluated by the department; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, by Miscellaneous
Resolution #85335, dated November 7, 1985, rejected this site recommendation
by the Michigan Department of Corrections; and
WHEREAS it is our understanding that the State of Michigan has
indicated that Oakland County must make the decision regarding the prison
location; and
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ALLEN
Counky Clerk/Register of Deeds
#85370 December 12, 1985
Moved by Rewold supported by Gosling the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Fortino supported by Price the resolution be amended by crossing
out the last two WHEREAS patagraphs (beginning with WHEREAS the Clinton Valley
Property ....", and the NOW BE IT RESOLVED paragraph, and insert the
following:
"WHEREAS the Public Services Committee, on May 15, 1985, voted in favor of the
Trustee Camp property on Brown Road; and
WHEREAS the property is better suited than anything wehave come up with so
far.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
recommends that the Michigan Department of Corrections construct the Region II
Correction Facility on the Brown Road property."
AYES: Pernick, Doyon, Fortino, McPherson. (4)
NAYS: Olsen, Page; Perinoff, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox,
, Caddell, Calandro, Gosling, Hobart, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald,
Moffitt, Moore, Nelson. (21)
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the amendment failed.
Discussion followed.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Page, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Caddell, Calandro, Gosling, R. Kuhn,
S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McDonald, Moffitt, Nelson. (15)
NAYS: Perinoff, Pernick, Wilcox, Doyon, Fortino, Hobart, McConnell, McPherson,
Moore, Olsen. (10)
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 December 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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