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REPORT
RE: Miscellaneous Resolution #2182, Social Security Retirement Ape
B Y General Government Committee - Robert W. Page, Chairman
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen;
Your Committee having reviewed Resolution #8182, Social Security Retirement
Age, recommends that subiect resolution be amended in paragraph four to read:
Whereas, the latest irresponsible attack on the Social Security System is the
proposal by some governmental officials to extend the retirement eligibility age for
drawing full benefits to age 68 in order to alleviate the strain on the system's
financial condition; and further recommends that Resolution #8182 be adopted with
that amendment,
The General Government Committee, by Robert \tV Page, Chairman, moves the
acceptance of the foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Miscellaneous Resolution 8182 September 15, 1977
BY: ROBERT W. PAGE -
RE: SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT AGE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, there has been in this country a Social Security System which has
guaranteed to the majority of our people at least a minimum of security in their
retirement years, as well as other benefits for those who are eligible; and
WHEREAS, this system is not a "funded" system as a private pension plan would
be; it is a "pay as you go" system of income transfers, which assumes a continuing and
adequate flow of new participants, negating the necessity for a large reserve fund; and
WHEREAS, Social Security is temporarily undermined by heavy unemployment and
the decline in the birth rate subsequent to 1961 so that we will have fewer and fewer
contributors supporting more and more recipients; and
WHEREAS, the latest irresponsible attack on the Social Security System is the
proposal by some governmental officials to extend the retirement age to 68 in order to
alleviate the strain on the system's financial condition; and
WHEREAS there are many responsible proposals for making adjustments to correct
the current problems of the Social Security System, including the use of general revenue
funds to shore up this valuable social program; and
WHEREAS, public officials at the national level have not distinguished themselves
as they should by reaffirming support for the 40-year guarantee given to our senior citizens--
that they had at least a minimum (though still shamefully inadequate) security in their
retirement years, Rather, there has been created a widespread and unnecessary fear among
all our citizens that their years of work has been for nothing in terms of their retirement, and
as a result their faith in the leadership of this country is in danger of being shattered beyond
repair.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we request that our elected officials in the
United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate to take steps to insure
that retirement guarantees and other provisions of the Social Security System are not eroded
beyond their present status.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we urge the members of the U. S. House of Representatives
and Senate to make their positive intentions publicly known through immediate and widespread
use of the news media so that our citizens need no longer live with fear for their future
which the recent proposal for extending the retirement age has created.
Mr.:, Chairman, I move .the adoption or the forepoins resoluHon.
#8182 October 11, 1977
Moved by Page supported by Peterson the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Page supported by Patterson that resolution #8182 be adopted.
Moved by Page supported by Patterson the resolution be amended in the
4th WHEREAS paragraph to add the words "for drawing full benefits" so the
paragraph would read: "WHEREAS, the latest irresponsible attack on the Social
Security System is the proposal by some governmental officials to extend the
retirement age for drawing full benefits to 68 in order to alleviate the
strain on the system's financial condition"
Moved by Doyon the resolution be amended to delete the 4th WHEREAS
paragraph.
The Chairman ruled •the amendment out of order.
Vote on amendment:
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: Kelly, Lanni, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Murphy,
Olson, Page, Patterson, Pernick, Peterson, Simson, Aaron, Daly, DiGiovanni,
Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Kasper. (20)
NAYS: Doyon, Hoot. (2)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, resolution #8182, as amended,
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 #8182 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
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at their meeting held on October 11, 1977
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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
this OOO OOOO day of-040,3P1-...1977..
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
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