HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1977.08.18 - 130658119 August 18, 1977 Miscellaneous Resolution
Robert W. Page, Chat
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Robert Page, Chairman
RE: Opposition to Senate Bill 479, Worker's Compensation
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, there exists before the State Legislature certain pending
specifically Senate Bill 479 to change the current worker's compensation laws; and
WHEREAS, the adoption of such legislation on a wholesale or piecemeal basis
would have a substantial adverse effect on the business climate and the future of the
jobs of the working men and women of this State; and
WHEREAS, the residents, employees and employers of this County have a
substantial and continuing interest in fair and reasonable worker's compensation benefits
and costs; and
WHEREAS, the current system is fraught with abuses which deprive legitimate
claimants of reasonable benefits.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
urge the Legislature to oppose the passage of Senate Bill 479 or similar legislation until it
addresses itself to the problem of correction of the abuses in the current system.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Legislature take positive legislative
action immediately to correct the current abuses in the present system,
MR. CHAIRMAN, the General Government Committee, by Robert Page, Chairman,
moves the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
#8119 August 18, 1977
By...... ..........Deputy Clerk
Moved by Page supported by Pernick the rules be suspended for immediate
consideration of the the resolution.
AYES:
Kasper, Kel
Patterson,
NAYS:
Simson, Wilcox, Daly, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline,
ly, Lanni, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Moxley, Page,
Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Price. (22)
None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Page supported by Patterson the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Wilcox, Daly, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Hoot, Kasper,
Kelly, Lanni, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Moxley, Murphy, Page, Patterson,
Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Simson. (23)
NAYS: Price. (I)
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
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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 thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
18th ... . • . ,day of., Au.91-I•s.t. • .....•19.77,
Lynn D.