HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2003.07.17 - 13004MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #03179
BY: Eric S. Wilson, District #3
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - SPECIAL ELECTION REIMBURSEMENT
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #03050 authorized a special election to fill the vacancy created in
Oakland County Commissioner District 3, due to the resignation of the incumbent on March 3, 2003; and
WHEREAS Public Act 261 of 1966, provides that when a seat on the Board of Commissioners becomes
vacant, and if the county board of commissioners does not fill the vacancy by appointment within 30 days, that
vacancy shall be filled by a special election regardless of whether the year is an election year or an odd year;
and
WHEREAS the costs associated with holding a Special Primary Election held on May 13, 2003 and a Special
Election held on June 17, 2003, were not anticipated in the Fiscal Year 2003 budgets of the affected local
governments and thereby posed an unanticipated financial hardship on the communities in the 3rd
Commissioner District: Orion Township, Oakland Township and the Village of Lake Orion; and
WHEREAS the constituents of County Commissioner District 3 were without representation for three (3)
months; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Fiscal Year 2003 Budget appropriately provided funding for Commissioners to
serve for twelve full months; and
WHEREAS due to the vacancy in County Commissioner District 3, three (3) months of salary went unpaid.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby authorizes
that the budgeted funds from the three (3) months of unpaid salary from County Commissioner District 3 be
distributed to Orion Township, Oakland Township and the Village of Lake Orion, based on the number of
registered voters in the special election precincts, to offset the cost of the special elections.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
ERIC WILSON
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no objections.