HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1982.11.03 - 13484PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE
November 4, 1982
Miscellaneous Resolution 82351
By Public Services Committee, James E, Lanni, Chairperson
In re7 FEDERAL COURT ORDER DiRECTING INTERIM ACTION TO ASSURE
COMPLIANCE WITH CONSENT JUDGMENT AND ADJOURNING
SHOW CAUSE HEARING
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr, Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the County of Oakland is under a Court Order to reduce the inmate
population at the Oakland County Jail; and
WHEREAS the inmate population was to be reduced to 450 inmates by August 22,
1982, which was not accomplished; and
WHEREAS an Order to Show Cause was issued against the County of Oakland and a
hearing was commenced as to why the County of Oakland should not be held in contempt; and
WHEREAS a showing was made to the Federal Court that the County of Oakland,
through the Jail Study Sub-Committee and the Public Services Committee, had formulated a
plan to reduce the population at the Jail; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, pursuant to Miscellaneous
Resolution #82266, dated September 9, 1982, authorized funds to be expended for housing of
Oakland County Jail inmates at other facilities in order to reduce the Jail population; and
WHEREAS the Federal District Judge has agreed to the implementation of the Jail
Study Sub--Committee program to reduce the population as long oS the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners continues to fund the placement of inmates at other facilities
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
is committed to providing adequate funding, through January 31, 1983, to continue temporary
housing of Oakland County Jail inmates outside of the Oakland County Jail until full imple-
mentation of the Jail Study Sub-Committee's recommendations for implementation to reduce
Jail overcrowding are in effect,
MR, CHAIRPERSON, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution,
#82351 Novi-ohr 4,
4th day of November 1982
LYNN/. ALLEN, County Clerk/Register of
Moved by Lanni supported by Whitlock the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Whitlock, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino,
Geary, Gosling, Jackson, Lanni, McDonald, Moffitt, Moore, Olsen, Page, Patterson, -
Pernick, Peterson, Price. (21) .
NAYS: None. (0) .
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted,
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
3, 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 g 82351 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on November 4, 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, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
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