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REPORT
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Robert W. Page, Chairman
RE: Establishment of Joint Legislative Committee to Audit Southeast Michigan Council of
Governments (SEMCOG) and Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA)
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Your Committee having reviewed Miscellaneous Resolution #8087, Establishment of
Joint Legislative Committee to Audit Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)
and Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA), recommends that subject
resolution not be adopted.
The General Government Committee, by Robert W. Page, Chairman, moves the
acceptance of the foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
July 7, 1977
Miscellaneous Resolution # 8087
By: James Edward Lanni, County Commissioner, District
Re: Establishment of Joint Legislative Committee to Audit Southeast Wchigan Council of
Governments (SEMCOG) and Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA)
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners believes in good government
in which those in power do not profit or enrich themselves from decisions they make; and
WHEREAS, $112,133 of Oakland County taxpayers' money is sent to SEMCOG and a
transit tax is collected by the state to help finance SEMTA which will include many millions of
Oakland County taxpayer dollars; and
WHEREAS, S. EMTA has as its Board Chairman one of the chief negotiators for the AFL
Bus Drivers' Union which may be a conflict of interest; and
WHEREAS, the SEMTA board member from Oakland County is a consultant to the
SEMCOG/S.Etv\TA parent body, which may be a conflict of interest; and
WHEREAS, there is a delegate to SEMCOG on the executive committee who is also
fuli-time paid employee of the SEMTA staff which may be a conflict of interest.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
request that a joint committee of the State Senate and State House be set up to audit and
investigate all consultants, contractors, and personnel in SEMCOG and SEMTA before creating
any more regional agencies or appropriating further monies to existing agencies.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
JAMS
County
,.;.,PWARt LANNI
ommissioner, District #11
#8087 July 7, 1977
Moved by Lanni supported by Wilcox the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Lanni supported by Patterson the rules be suspended for
immediate consideration of the resolution.
AYES: Hoot, Lanni, Montante, Patterson, Wilcox, DiGiovanni. (6)
NAYS: Doyon, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Kelly, Moffitt, Moxley,
Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Simson, Daly. (12)
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the motion failed.
The Chairman referred the resolution to the General Government
Committee.
Mr. Perinoff objected,
The Chairman stated those in favor of sustaining the objection
vote "yes" and those opposed vote "no",
AYES: Perinoff, Pernick. (2)
RAYS: Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Hoot, Kelly, Lanni, Moffitt,
Montante, Moxley, Patterson, Peterson, Simson, Wilcox, Daly, DiGiovanni, Doyon. (16)
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the objection was
not sustained, and the resolution was referred to the General Government Committee.
#8087 November 3, 1977
Moved by Page supported by Perinoff the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Lanni supported by Wilcox the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Lanni supported by Wilcox the resolution be amended by
deleting the 3rd WHEREAS paragraph.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Discussion followed.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: DiGiovanni, Doyon, Lanni, Murphy. (4)
NAYS: Olson, Page, Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Roth,
Simson, Daly, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Kasper, Kelly, McConnell, McDonald,
Moffitt, Montante, Moxley. (20)
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the resolution was
not adopted.