HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1978.04.20 - 12573Miscellaneous Resolution # 8415 April 20, 1978
BY: Robert W. Page, Chairman, General Government Committee
RE: ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT
To the Oakland County Board of Commiss,oners
Mr, Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, no new public transportation vehicles have been purchased in Michigan
since November 1976 due to a legislatively imposed moratorium; and
WHEREAS, this moratorium has delayed the purchase of new replacement buses for
existing services in Oakland County: and
WHEREAS, this moratorium has delayed the implementation of OCART, a 42-v ,-hirle
county-wide, door-tc-door program for the elderly and handicapped in Oakland County, and
WHEREAS this moratorium is still in effect due to an impasse in demanding all fixed route
vehicles must be equipped with lifts to service wheelchair users; and
WHEREAS, equipping each fixed route bus with lifts will add 10% to the capital costs
and could cause significant increases in operating costs; and
WHEREAS, the available evidence indicates that the demand for public transportation
service for wheelchair users ismuch greater for door to door rather than fixed route services.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the legislature immediately enact legislation
and the Governor support legislation to remove the moratorium on the purchase of new public
transportation vehicles in Michigan,
BE IT F-FNALLY RESOLVED that the legislature is urged to encourage the development
of service geared to meeting the needs of the elderly and the handicapped and not mandate
total accessibility on large vehicles.
The General Government Committee, by Robert W. Page, Chairman, moves the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Robert W. Page, Chairman T,"/
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Moved by Page supported by Peterson the rules be suspended for immediate
consideration of the resolution.
AYES: Aaron, Daly, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Kelly, Lanni,
McConnell, Moffitt, Moxley, Olson, Page, Patterson, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Simson,
Wilcox. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Page, supported by Fortino the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
AYES: Daly, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Gorsline, Kelly, Lanni, McConnell, Moffitt,
Montante, Moxley, Olson, Page, Patterson, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Simson, Wilcox,
Aaron. (20)
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 #84I5 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
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with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole the/e0f.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
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