HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.12.12 - 11344Miscellaneous Resolution 4 85386 December 12, 1985
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
House Bill 5026 (SUPPORT) Providing for an Increase to $50 Per
Day for Reimbursement of Holding Costs for Prisoners in County
Jails
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, at the present time the state is obligated by law to reimburse
counties up to $20 per day for having state-committed prisoners in county
jails; and
WHEREAS, state-committed prisoners who might end up in a county jail
include escapees from prisons, walkaways from halfway houses, parole violators,
etc; and
WHEREAS, the actual cost of having a prisoner for a day in a county
jail is approximately $56; and
WHEREAS, House Bill 5026 would require the State Department of Corrections
to reimburse counties up to $50 per day instead of up to $20; and
WHEREAS, Sheriff Nichols has reviewed House Bill 5026 and has taken
a position supporting it.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
goes on record as supporting House Bill 5026.
BE IT 'IFURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to all
legislators representing 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 COMMI1TEE
RE:
#8 5 386 1,eccHber 12, 1985
12th day of Dec-noer 19 85
Moved by Olsen supported by McConnell the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Nelson, Olsen, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb,
Wilcox, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell,
McPherson, Moffitt, Moore. (23)
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 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
this
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds