HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1978.05.04 - 12832REPORT May 4, 1978
BY GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Robert W. Page, Chairman
IN RE: RESOLUTION #8426, ENDORSEMENT OF PONTIAC SILVERDOME
STADIUM AS SUPERBOWL SITE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Your committee, having reviewed Resolution #8426 reports its
recommendation that subject resolution be adopted.
The General Government Committee, by Robert W. Page, Chairman,
moves the acceptance of the foregoing report,
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Niles E. Olson
County Commissioner, District #3
Paul Kasper
County Commissio _r4. District #23
April 20, 1978
Miscellaneous Resolution
BY; Marguerite Simson, Commissioner - District #7, Hubert Price, Jr., Commissioner - District #8
Niles E. Olson, Commissioner - District #3, Paul E. Kasper, Commissioner - District #23
IN RE; ENDORSEMENT OF PONTIAC SILVERDOME STADIUM AS SUPERBOWL SITE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, bids will be made to the National Football League in New York City in
June of 1978, by several cities desiring to attract a future Superbowl game; and
WHEREAS, representatives from Pontiac and greater metropolitan Detroit area and the
state will support Pontiac Silverdome's effort to secure the Superbowl game; and
WHEREAS, the great County of Oakland, Michigan, offers many advantages such as
the greatest concentration of pro-football fans in the country in a radius of 600 miles, many
fine hotels and winter sports, recreation and entertainment experiences which in the 16-mile
radius of Pontiac can match any other city; and
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland, Michigan, urges the National Football League
owners to consider holding the event in the Pontiac Silverdome which contains more than 80,000
seats, and is the largest covered stadium in the country and possesses all the inducements for the
top pro-football event,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners,
does hereby proclaim that the Pontiac Silverdome is superior, adequate, and is the logical
location for a Superbowl game sponsored by the National Football League,
Mr, Chairman, we the undersigned move the adoption of the foregoing resolution,
8426
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Hubert Price, J r ,
County Commissioner, District #8
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ommissioner, District #7
#8426 May 4, 1978
Moved by Page supported by Patterson the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Page supported by Patterson that resolution #8426 be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, resolution #8426 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
Resolution #8426 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners • • .•00..pp••••.0..e4060'•e•eyeet.•• ....................... •Peer.•
at .their meeting held on May 4, 1978 ............ .....
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
4th May.
Lynn D. Alien.. 4.0", ..... ........ Clerk
By................. ........ ....... Deputy Clerk