HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1983.07.14 - 11562July 14, 1983
Miscellaneous Resolution #83209
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: SUPPORT OF STATE REIMBURSEMENT TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR
MANDATING A REDUCTION IN THE FIREFIGHTER WORK WEEK
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Act 604 of the Public Acts of 1978 reduced the normal work
week for firefighters from 56 to 54 hours; and
WHEREAS Act 604 made no provision for reimbursement to municipalities
for the added cost mandated by this act; and
WHEREAS the Headlee Amendment requires state reimbursement for this
type of mandated cost; and
WHEREAS the requirement for state reimbursement in this matter has
been upheld in court; and
WHEREAS the General Government appropriation bill (H.B. 4560)
totalling $1.3 billion and providing for a $600,000 reimbursement to
municipalities to off-set the Act 604 mandate was passed by the Legislature
July 1.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners urges the Governor to sign this bill, leaving the $600,000
appropriation to municipalities intact.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to
the Governor.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
#83209 July 14, 1983
Moved by Olsen supported by Rewold the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Gosling, Hobart, R. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McDonald, McPherson,
Moffitt, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Rewold, Wilcox, Caddell,
Calandro, Doyon, Foley, Fortino, Geary, (21)
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 #83209 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on July 14, 1983
with the original 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
14th day of July 1983 this
LYNN D ALLEN, County Clerk/Register of DeE
Deputy Clerk