HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1982.12.02 - 13429December 2, 1982
Miscellaneous Resolution # 82364
JOHN E. OLSEN
Commissioner District #I7
IN RE: OPPOSITION TO SUBSTITUTE HB 6148, SUBSTITUTE HB 6149, AND
HB 6151, PUBLIC TRANSIT FUNDING LEGISLATION
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Substitute House Bills 6148 and 6149 and House Bill 6151
provide for a non-elected transportation authority to levy up to a 5 mill tax
on property and an unlimited excise tax on income of residents within the
transportation authority region; and
WHEREAS the legislation as presently drafted would make such tax
binding on every county within the transportation authority region regardless
of whether the citizens of that county supported such a tax based on the
outcome of a region-wide vote on taxation; and
WHEREAS the transportation authority can hold unlimited elections
until such tax is passed; and
WHEREAS no county would be allowed to withdraw from the transportation
authority, even if that authority provided little or no service to that county,
and, further, these bills preclude a county or municipality from providing
any transit service to their residents other than what the transportation
authority wishes them to have; and
WHEREAS funding public transit by the proposed means of increased
property tax and/or excise tax on income places public transit in direct
competition with the school districts for the same limited tax dollars at a
time when our educational systems are already cataclysmically underfunded; and
WHEREAS Oakland County is committed to providing public transporta-
tion services to its citizens but feels that this legislation was hastily written
and offers no guarantee of equal service or service based on a level propor-
tionate to the taxes collected from that county.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners does hereby vigorously oppose Substitute House Bills 6148 and
6149 and House Bill 6151 on the basis that they do not provide an equitable
means of providing transit service, they fail to recognize the legitimacy of
each county's or municipality's right to equal transportation service, and they
extend the important responsibility of elected governments for the raising and
levying of local taxes to a non-elected body.
BY:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be
forwarded to Oakland County's State Legislators, all members of the House
Taxation Committee, the Governor, and the County's Legislative Agent.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be
sent to all Counties in the State of Michigan and the Michigan Association of
Counties with an urgent request that they join with Oakland County in
informing their legislators of their opposition to this legislation.
Mr. Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
JOHN K/OLSEN
Commissioner District #I7
82364
December 2, 1982
Moved by Olsen supported by Fortino the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Price supported by Perinoff the resolution be referred to the
General Government Committee.
Discussion followed.
Vote on referral:
AYES: Pernick, Price, Aaron, Doyon, Moore, Perinoff. (6)
NAYS: Peterson, Wilcox, Caddell, Cagney, Calandra, DiGiovanni, Fortino,
Geary, Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, Kasper, Lanni, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante,
Olsen, Patterson. (18)
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the motion failed.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Peterson, Wilcox, Caddell, Cagney, Calandro, DiGiovanni, Fortino,
Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, Kasper, Lanni, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Olsen, Page,
Patterson. (18)
NAYS: Price, Aaron, Doyon, Geary, Moore, Perinoff, Pernick. (7)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
$TATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND).
t, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a
seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #82364 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners at their meeting held on December 2, 1982
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, k have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 2nd day of De.clmber 473 98_ 2
Lynn 70, Allen, County Clerk/
Register of Deeds. . -