HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1977.12.15 - 13138Miscellaneous Restifion 83 1)3 December 15, 1977
t..ortin3, Distri.c.It #5
RE: RELOCATION OF FRIEND OF THE COURT
BY: BETTY FORTNO, COMMISSIONER, DISTRICT #5, PATRICK K, DALY, COMMISSIONER,
DISTRICT 4
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS; for over three years the Friend of the Court has been relegated to an office
in the basement of Administrative Annex Ii , with the promise of returning to the Court House;
and
WHEREAS, the Friend of the Court has daily contact with the Circuit Court and Clerk's
Office, Files and attorneys are shuttled across the service drive and through the parking lot
morning and afternoon; and
WHEREAS, when the Court requires a file or an atl -orney for an urgent matter, all must
wait until the distance is covered, and the problem arises again daily, when the Friend of
the Court requires Pleadings and Orders;
WHEREAS, an average of 150 county residents and attorneys call at the Friend of the
Court each day, only to find a lack of access for handicapped and overcrowded waiting rooms.
Hallways and offices; and
WHEREAS, there are hundreds of square feet of office space in the Court House being
occupied by departments with no direct connection to the functions of the Court and many of
them have Ittle public contad-. For example: Accounting, Budget, Federal & State Aid,
Insurance, Planning & Physicc,11 Development, Reimbursement, Treasurer's Office, Board of
Commissioners, County Executive, Human Services, Personnel, Property Nkinaaemero„ Public
Services, Retirement Commission, as well as offices For State. and Federal agencies as well
a.; private companies,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board ofCommissioners
strongly recommends that the County Executive consider returning the Friend of the Court
operation to the Court House as sooc as the County Executive's Departments move to new
quarters.
Mr. Chairman, we move th adoption of tke foregoing Resolution.
Pairi.7:1< K. Daly, C—ornmis.,io—ner, Distric119-
#8308 December 15, 1977
Moved by Fortino supported by Daly the rules be suspended for immediate
consideration of the resolution.
AYES: Gabler, Gorsline, Kelly, Lanni, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt,
Montante, Moxley, Patterson, Pernick, Peterson, Roth, Simson, Wilcox, Aaron,
Daly, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Fortino supported by Daly the resolution be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, 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 #8308 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners ..... ....... ..... ........ ....... .........
at their meeting held on December 15, 1977 • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• aa•P P•••n •••• ................. ••• 0.0 ........
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, T have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 15th day of December
Lynn D. Allen ...... ..... --Clerk
By....... ..................... --Deputy Clerk